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ECAI 2006 Workshop on Configuration

August 28 - 29, Riva del Garda, Italy

Affiliated with the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2006)
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This is the preliminary agenda of the ECAI 2006 Configuration Workshop. You may also want to download a PDF version of the agenda.

Talks are either 30 minutes (full papers), 20 minutes (short papers) or 10 minutes (extended abstracts) in length, and are followed by a 5 minutes discussion each. We will also have an invited talk and two panel discussions.

Day 1 (Monday, August 28)

8:30-9:00Registration
9:00-9:10Workshop Opening
9:10-10:00 Invited Talk (Markus Stumptner, Title: TBA)
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-12:15 Session I: Principles & Models (Chair: Esther Gelle)
  1. Albert Haag, Ulrich Junker and Barry O'Sullivan: A Survey on Principal Explanation Techniques for Configurators (30+5 min)
  2. Lothar Hotz: Configuring from Observed Parts (30+5 min)
  3. Thorsten Krebs: Evolution of Configuration Models - A Focus on Correctness (30+5 min)
12:15-14:00Lunch Break
14:00-15:35 Session II: Reasoning & Algorithms (Chair: Barry O'Sullivan)
  1. Nina Narodytska and Toby Walsh: Constraint and Variable Ordering Heuristics for Compiling Configuration Problems (30+5 min)
  2. Esther Gelle and Mihaela Sabin: Direct and Reformulation Solving of Conditional Constraint Satisfaction Problems (30+5 min)
  3. Carsten Sinz: Comparing Different Logic-Based Representations of Automotive Parts Lists (20+5 min)
15:35-16:00Coffee Break
16:00-17:15 Session III: Business Integration & Interactivity (Chair: Claire Bagley)
  1. Songlin Chen and Mitchell Tseng: Turning a Configurator into a Bargaining Table (20+5 min)
  2. Rick Rabiser, Deepak Dhungana and Paul Gruenbacher: Integrating Knowledge-Based Product Configuration and Product Line Engineering: An Industrial Example (20+5 min)
  3. Alexander Felfernig, Christian Scheer and Peter Loos: How to recommend configurable products? (20+5 min)
17:15-18:00Panel Discussion: Benchmarking Configuration Solutions
18:00-Workshop Dinner, OC Meeting

Day 2 (Tuesday, August 29)

9:00-10:00 Session IV: Applications & Case Studies (Chair: Alexander Felfernig)
  1. Daniel Naus: HP Rack Placement Optimization Case Study (20+5 min)
  2. Juha Tiihonen, Mikko Heiskala, Kaija-Stiina Paloheimo and Andreas Anderson: Configuration of Contract Based Services (30+5 min)
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-11:45 Session V: Short Presentations (Chair: Carsten Sinz)
  1. Markus Zanker, Markus Aschinger and Marius Silaghi: Knowledge-based composition of recommendations (10+5 min)
  2. Manikandan Sundaram, Rajasekhar Vinnakota and Praveen Vudoagiri: Industry specific Standard Template Libraries for configuration (10+5 min)
  3. Markus Stumptner: Configuration Support for Ubiquitous Workspaces (10+5 min)
  4. Diego Magro: Using Constraint Optimization to Enhance the Diversity in the Set of Computed Configurations (10+5 min)
  5. Gert L. Moeller: Constraints in Array-based Logic (10+5 min)
11:45-12:30Panel Discussion: Future of Configuration
12:30-12:45Closing