The proceedings of ConfWS’2024 can be downloaded here. They will be also available online in CEUR-WS.org after the workshop.

All times are in the Central European Time CET (UTC +1)
Author / Presenter Information:
Keynotes: 30 min for presentation + 10 min for questions
Papers: 15 min for presentation + 5 min for questions

  Monday, 2nd September 2024
8:15 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:30 Opening and welcome notes
     – Technical Session 1: Configuration –
9:30 - 9:50 Thomas Pouré, Stephanie Roussel, Elise Vareilles and Gauthier Picard.
Configuration of Heterogeneous Agent Fleet: a Preliminary Generic Model
9:50 - 10:10 Florian Jost and Carsten Sinz.
Challenges in Automotive Hardware-Software Co-Configuration
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
     – Keynote –
11:00 - 11:40 Tacton: Patrik Östberg and Sonja Arce
Inspiring & enabling manufacturers to shape and build a sustainable future
     – Technical Session 2: Configuration tasks –
11:40 - 12:00 Irene Campo Gay, Lars Hvam and Johan Ernfors.
Prospective and retrospective approaches to integrate life cycle assessment in configurators: A multiple case study in the construction industry
12:00 - 12:20 Bart Deschoolmeester and Elise Vareilles.
Premises, challenges and suggestions for modelling building knowledge using the configuration paradigm.
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
     – Keynote –
14:00 - 14:40 Siemens: Sophie Rogenhofer.
Sustainability at Siemens - Scaling sustainability impact
     – Technical Session 3: Green configuration –
14:40 - 15:00 Andreas Falkner, Richard Comploi-Taupe, Katrin Müller and Sophie Rogenhofer.
Requirements and Architectures for Green Configuration
15:00 - 15:20 Carlos March Moya, Christian Perez and Miguel A. Salido.
Developing an Algorithm Selector for Green Configuration in Scheduling Problems
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
     – Technical Session 4: Sustainabilty & Configuration applications (I) –
16:00 - 16:20 Christian Perez, Carlos March and Miguel A. Salido.
Instance Configuration for Sustainable Job Shop Scheduling
16:20 - 16:40 Andrea Petterle, Enrico Sandrin and Cipriano Forza.
Product visualization in configurators: laying the foundations for a comparative description
16:40 - 17:00 Franz Wotawa.
Using Answer Set Programming for Assigning Tasks to Computing Nodes
17:00 - 18:30 Future and Next ConfWS’2025
  End of first day
20:30 - 00:00 Gala Dinner (see below)
  Tuesday, 3rd September, 2024
8:15 - 9:00 Registration
     – Technical Session 5: Sustainabilty & Configuration applications (II) –
9:00 - 9:20 Sebastian Lubos, Alexander Felfernig, Lothar Hotz, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Seda Polat-Erdeniz, Viet-Man Le, Damian Garber and Merfat El-Mansi.
Responsible Configuration Using LLM-based Sustainability-Aware Explanations
9:20 - 9:40 (online) Mathias Uta, Viet-Man Le, Alexander Felfernig, Damian Garber, Gottfried Schenner and Thi Ngoc Trang Tran.
Semantics-Preserving Merging of Feature Models
9:40 - 10:00 (online) Damian Garber, Alexander Felfernig, Viet-Man Le, Tamim Burgstaller and Merfat Elmansi.
An extensive comparison of preprocessing methods in the context of configuration space learning
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
     – Keynote –
10:30 - 11:10 Cosling: Jean-Guillaume Fages.
Automating complex computations with Cosling Configurator
     – Technical Session 6: AI & configuration –
11:10 - 11:30 Lothar Hotz, Christian Bähnisch, Sebastian Lubos, Alexander Felfernig, Albert Haag and Johannes Twiefel.
Exploiting Large Language Models for the Automated Generation of Constraint Satisfaction Problems
11:30 - 11-50 Philipp Kogler, Wei Chen, Andreas Falkner, Alois Haselboeck and Stefan Wallner.
Configuration Copilot: Towards Integrating Large Language Models and Constraints
12:00 - 12:30 Closing and Best Paper Awards
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 ConfWS Meeting

Gala Dinner

The gala dinner of ConfWS’24 will be take placed at TOMÀQUET Bar Restaurant, an authentic Catalan farmhouse located in a natural oasis surrounded by trees in the middle of Girona.

TOMÀQUET Bar Restaurant