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17th International
Configuration Workshop
Proceedings of the
17th International Configuration Workshop
Edited by
Juha Tiihonen, Andreas Falkner, and Tomas Axling
September 10-11, 2015
Vienna, Austria
Organized by
University of Helsinki
Department of Computer Science
Faculty of Science
P.O. 68, FI-00014 UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI
FINLAND
ISSN 1613-0073
Chairs
Juha Tiihonen, Helsinki University, Finland
Andreas Falkner, Siemens AG Österreich, Austria
Tomas Axling, Tacton, Sweden
Program committee
Michel Aldanondo, Toulouse University, Mines Albi, France
Claire Bagley, Oracle Corporation, USA
Andreas Falkner, Siemens AG, Austria
Alexander Felfernig, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Gerhard Friedrich, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Cipriano Forza, University of Padova
José A. Galindo, University of Seville, Spain
Albert Haag, SAP, Germany
Alois Haselböck, Siemens AG, Austria
Mikko Heiskala, Aalto University, Finland
Lothar Hotz, University of Hamburg, HiTeC, Germany
Lars Hvam, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Dietmar Jannach, University of Dortmund, Germany
Thorsten Krebs, encoway GmbH, Germany
Varvana Myllärniemi, Aalto University, Finland
Tomi Männistö, Helsinki University, Finland
Mikko Raatikainen, Aalto University, Finland
Rick Rabiser, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Florian Reinfrank, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Stefan Reiterer, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Markus Stumptner, University of South Australia, Australia
Juha Tiihonen, Helsinki University, Finland
Elise Vareilles, Toulouse University, Mines Albi, France
Franz Wotawa, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Linda Zhang, IESEG Business School Paris, France
Markus Zanker, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Local arrangements
Andreas Falkner, Siemens AG, Austria
Preface
Configuration problems are among the most fruitful domains for applying and developing advanced
artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. Powerful knowledge-representation formalisms are required to
capture the great variety and complexity of configuration problems. Efficient reasoning is required to
provide intelligent interactive behavior in contexts such as solution search, satisfaction of user preferences,
personalization, optimization, and diagnosis.
The main goal of the workshop is to promote high-quality research in all technical areas related to
configuration. The workshop is of interest both for researchers working in the various fields of Artificial
Intelligence as well as for industry representatives interested in the relationship between configuration
technology and the business problem behind configuration and mass customization. It provides a forum for
presentation of original methods and the exchange of ideas, evaluations, and experiences especially related
to the use of AI techniques in the configuration context.
This year's workshop is a standalone two day event that continues the series of 16 successful Configuration
Workshops started at the AAAI’96 Fall Symposium and continued at IJCAI, AAAI, and ECAI conferences since
1999.
A total of 21 papers were selected for presentation on the Configuration workshop. The themes of the
technical sessions are Strategy, Long-term management, Collaboration, Solving, Diagnosis, and Analytics.
The 17th International Configuration Workshop introduced the concept of Best Paper Award. The best
paper was selected in a two-phase audience vote: three best papers (actually four due to an equal number
of votes) of the first round entered the second round to select the best paper and a runner-up. The Best
Paper Award winner was ’Column oriented compilation of variant tables’ by Albert Haag. Two runner-ups
(with an equal number of votes) were ’Impact on cost accuracy and profitability from implementing
product configuration system – a case study’ by Anna Myrodia, Katrin Kristjansdottir, and Lars Hvam; and
’Coupling two constraint-based systems into an on-line facade-layout configurator’ by Andrés Felipe Barco
Santa, Elise Vareilles, Paul Gaborit, Jean-Guillaume Fages, and Michel Aldanondo.
Juha Tiihonen, Andreas Falkner and Tomas Axling
Contents
Strategy
Market-oriented variant management (position paper) 1
Thorsten Krebs and Christoph Ranze
An empirical study on product configurators’ application: Implications, challenges, and 5
opportunities
Linda L. Zhang and Petri T. Helo
Impact on cost accuracy and profitability from implementing product configuration 11
system – A case-study
Anna Myrodia, Katrin Kristjansdottir and Lars Hvam
Long-term management
On breaking the curse of dimensionality in reverse engineering feature models 19
(short paper)
Jean-Marc Davril, Patrick Heymans, Guillaume Bécan and Mathieu Acher
Customer buying behaviour analysis in mass customization 23
Tilak Raj Singh and Narayan Rangaraj
Intelligent supporting techniques for the maintenance of constraint-based configuration 31
systems
Florian Reinfrank, Gerald Ninaus, Franz Wotawa and Alexander Felfernig
Maintaining constraint-based systems: challenges ahead 39
Florian Reinfrank, Gerald Ninaus, Franz Wotawa and Alexander Felfernig
Collaboration
Coupling two constraint-based systems into an on-line facade-layout configurator 47
Andrés F. Barco, Élise Vareilles, Paul Gaborit, Jean-Guillaume Fages and Michel
Aldanondo
Solving combined configuration problems: a heuristic approach 55
Martin Gebser, Anna Ryabokon and Gottfried Schenner
Towards a benchmark for configuration and planning optimization problems 61
Luis Garcés Monge, Paul Pitiot, Michel Aldanondo and Elise Vareilles
Solving
Different solving strategies on PBO Problems from automotive industry 67
Thore Kübart, Rouven Walter and Wolfgang Küchlin
A heuristic, replay-based approach for reconfiguration 73
Alois Haselböck and Gottfried Schenner
Arc consistency with negative variant tables 81
Albert Haag
Column oriented compilation of variant tables 89
Albert Haag
Diagnosis
Inverse QuickXplain vs. MaxSAT — a comparison in theory and practice 97
Rouven Walter, Alexander Felfernig and Wolfgang Küchlin
FlexDiag: anytime diagnosis for reconfiguration 105
Alexander Felfernig, Rouven Walter and Stefan Reiterer
Learning games for configuration and diagnosis tasks (short paper) 111
Alexander Felfernig, Michael Jeran, Thorsten Ruprechter, Alexander Ziller, Stefan Reiterer
and Martin Stettinger
Support for the social dimension of shopping through web based sales configurators 115
Chiara Grosso, Cipriano Forza and Alessio Trentin
Analytics
A goal-question-metrics model for configuration knowledge bases 123
Florian Reinfrank, Gerald Ninaus, Bernhard Peischl and Franz Wotawa
Formal analysis of the Linux kernel configuration with SAT solving 131
Martin Walch, Rouven Walter and Wolfgang Küchlin
How to analyze and quantify similarities between configured engineer to order products 139
by comparing the highlighted features utilizing the configuration system abilities
Sara Shafiee, Lars Hvam and Katrin Kristjansdottir
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