The IJCAI-09 Workshop
on
Configuration

To be held in conjunction with IJCAI 2009
Pasadena, California, USA
12-13 July 2009







When: 12-13 July 2009, start at 9:00, finish at 17:00 on Sunday, start at 9:30, finish at 12:00 on Monday.


Where: Room 215 (Upper Level) Conference Building of the Pasadena Convention Center


Program: Online proceedings

Each author will have 25 minutes to present their paper that will be followed by 5 minutes of technical questions about the paper.  In order to have an interactive and productive workshop, we encourage all the participants of the workshop to have a look at the on-line proceedings before attending the workshop.




Day 1
8:55-9:00 Opening

Session 1: Modelling for Configuration
9:00 - 9:30 A Metamodelling Approach to Configuration Knowledge Representation

by Timo Asikainen and Tomi Mannistö
9:30 -10:00 Construction of Configuration Models

by Lothar Hotz
10:00-10:30 Argumentation based constraint acquisition

by Kostyantyn Shchekotykhin and Gerhard Friedrich
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

Session 2: Industrial Configuration Requirements
11:00- 11:30 A Simple Evaluation Process for Configurability

by Andreas Falkner and Alois Haselböck
11:30-12:00 Industrial requirements for interative product configurators

by Matthieu Quéva and Christian Probst and Per Vikkelsøe
12:00-12.30 Characterization of 26 Configuration Models

by Juha Tiihonen
12:30 - 14.30 Lunch (not provided)

Session 3: Configuring
14.00 - 14.30 Combining Binary Decision Diagrams and Backtracking Search for Scalable
Backtrack-Free Interactive Product Configuration

by Andreas Hau Nørgaard, Morten Riiskjær Boysen, Rune Møller Jensen
14.30 - 15:00 On Solving Complex Rack Configuration Problems using CSP Methods

by Wolfgang Mayer, Marc Bettex, Markus Stumptner, Andreas Falkner
14:30-15:00 Discussion/General questions


15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00 Panel discussion





Day 2

Session 5: Configuration Applications
9:30-10:00
Combining Constraints and Models: SBVR-based Parsing of (Controlled)
Languages

by Mathias Kleinert and Patrick Albert and Jean Bézivin
10:00-10:30
Interactive Configuration and Time Estimation of Civil Helicopter Maintenance

by Elise Vareilles, Cedric Beler, Eric Villeneuve, Michel Aldanondo, Laurent Geneste

10:30 - 11:00


Coffee break

11:00-12:00

Discussion: Do we want or need a Configuration Challenge?



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