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Elise Vareilles Chiara Grosso
José Miguel Horcas Alexander Felfernig (Eds.)
ConfWS 2024
26th International Workshop on Configuration
Girona, Spain, September 2-3, 2024
Proceedings
© 2024 for the individual papers by the papers’ authors. Copying permitted for private and
academic purposes. Re-publication of material from this volume requires permission by the
copyright owners.
Editors’ addresses:
Universitat de Girona
Edifici Les Àligues
17071 Girona, Spain
elise.vareilles@mines-albi.fr, chiara.grosso@uniroma1.it, horcas@uma.es, alexan-
der.felfernig@ist.tugraz.at
Preface
The 26th edition of the International Workshop on Configuration (ConfWS 2024) has
been co-located with the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint
Programming (CP 2024 celebrating its 30th anniversary) hosted by the University of Girona
in Spain. ConfWS 2024 has been a vibrant hub for researchers and industry professionals
interested in configuration technology. In addition, for edition 2024, Siemens supported the
event confirming its sponsorship.
ConfWS 2024 was a two-day event where high-quality research in all configuration-related
technical areas has been presented. This edition had a special focus on Green Configuration
which is related to EU Green Deal as stated in the EU Agenda 2050 to drive the EU community
to a more sustainable future. Researchers and experts from academia and industry shared
their contributions on the potentials of configuration in achieving sustainability goals for a
more sustainable future. The program includes special sessions on green configuration and
sustainability, including topics such as sustainability and configurator applications, efficient
reasoning, configuration space learning, integration of large language models (LLMs), and
further aspects related to problem solving and optimization.
ConfWS 2024 has been visited by 24 attendants from academia and industry. There were 14
papers submitted for peer review to ConfWS 2024. 14 papers were selected for publication
in the workshop proceedings after a review by three independent reviewers per paper. In
addition, three keynote speakers were invited from three industrial partners: Patrik Östberg
and Sonja Arce (from Tacton) presented the talk “Inspiring & enabling manufacturers to
shape and build a sustainable future”; Sophie Rogenhofer (from Siemens) presented the talk
“Sustainability at Siemens - Scaling sustainability impact”; and Jean-Guillaume Fages (from
Cosling) presented the talk “Automating complex computations with Cosling Configurator”.
ConfWS 2024 introduced the role of a “Publicity and Social Media Chair” on the organization
committee, a role played by Irene Campo Gay (Technical University of Denmark), who was
in charge of promoting the workshop on social media and managing the official workshop
accounts on LinkedIn and Twitter (X). In line with previous editions, the workshop
participants selected the best paper (“Exploiting Large Language Models for the Automated
Generation of Constraint Satisfaction Problems”) and the best student paper (“Configuration
Copilot: Towards Integrating Large Language Models and Constraints”).
We want to thank the ConfWS 2024 authors for their high-quality submissions, the program
committee members for their high-quality reviews, and the University of Girona and the CP
Workshop Chair and CP Chairs for their proactive support. Further thanks goes to SIEMENS
for sponsoring ConfWS 2024, and the keynote speakers for delivering inspiring presentations.
The following projects by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities
also supported the workshop: TASOVA PLUS research network (RED2022-134337-T), IRIS
(PID2021-122812OB-I00), and Data-pl (PID2022-138486OB-I00).
September 2024 Elise Vareilles, Chiara Grosso
José Miguel Horcas, Alexander Felfernig
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Workshop Chairs
Elise Vareilles, IMT Mines Albi, France
Chiara Grosso, DIAG, University La Sapienza Rome, Italy
José Miguel Horcas, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Alexander Felfernig, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Publicity and Social Media Chair
Irene Campo Gay, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Award Chair
Alexander Felfernig, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Program Committee
Gerhard Friedrich, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Gerhard Leitner, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Lothar Hotz, Hamburger Informatik Technologie-Center, Germany
Andreas Falkner, Siemens AG Österreich, Vienna, Austria
Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Yue Wang, Hang Seng University, Hong Kong
José Ángel Galindo, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Enrico Sandrin, University of Padova, Italy
Markus Stumptner, University of South Australia, Australia
Lars Hvam, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
David Benavides, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Cipriano Forza, University of Padova, Italy
Albert Haag, Product Management GmbH, Germany
Alois Haselboeck, Siemens AG Österreich, Austria
Richard Comploi-Taupe, Siemens AG Österreich, Vienna, Austria
Tomi Mänistö, University of Helsinki, Finland
Viet-Man Le, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Abdourahim Sylla, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
Juha Tiihonen, Variantum, Finland
Franz Wotawa, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Rüdiger Dehn, Lino GmbH, Germany
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Contents
Configuration of Heterogeneous Agent Fleet: a Preliminary Generic Model
Thomas Pouré, Stephanie Roussel, Elise Vareilles, Gauthier Picard 8
Challenges in Automotive Hardware-Software Co-Configuration
Florian Jost, Carsten Sinz 17
Prospective and retrospective approaches to integrate life cycle assessment in
configurators: A multiple case study in the construction industry
Irene Campo Gay, Lars Hvam, Johan Ernfors 21
Premises, challenges and suggestions for modelling building knowledge using
the configuration paradigm
Bart Deschoolmeester, Elise Vareilles 29
Requirements and Architectures for Green Configuration
Andreas Falkner, Richard Comploi-Taupe, Katrin Müller, Sophie Rogenhofer 33
Developing an Algorithm Selector for Green Configuration in Scheduling
Problems
Carlos March Moya, Christian Perez, Miguel A. Salido 41
Instance Configuration for Sustainable Job Shop Scheduling
Christian Perez, Carlos March, Miguel A. Salido 50
Product visualization in configurators: laying the foundations for a comparative
description
Andrea Petterle, Enrico Sandrin, Cipriano Forza 54
Using Answer Set Programming for Assigning Tasks to Computing Nodes
Franz Wotawa 64
Responsible Configuration Using LLM-based Sustainability-Aware Explana-
tions
Sebastian Lubos, Alexander Felfernig, Lothar Hotz, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Seda
Polat-Erdeniz, Viet-Man Le, Damian Garber, Merfat El-Mansi 68
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Semantics-Preserving Merging of Feature Models
Mathias Uta, Viet-Man Le, Alexander Felfernig, Damian Garber, Gottfried
Schenner, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran 74
An extensive comparison of preprocessing methods in the context of configura-
tion space learning
Damian Garber, Alexander Felfernig, Viet-Man Le, Tamim Burgstaller, Merfat
Elmansi 81
Exploiting Large Language Models for the Automated Generation of Constraint
Satisfaction Problems
Lothar Hotz, Christian Bähnisch, Sebastian Lubos, Alexander Felfernig, Albert
Haag, Johannes Twiefel 91
Configuration Copilot: Towards Integrating Large Language Models and
Constraints
Philipp Kogler, Wei Chen, Andreas Falkner, Alois Haselboeck, Stefan Wallner 101
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