Program

_{The papers of ConfWS’2026 will be downloadable here. They will be also available online in CEUR-WS.org after the workshop.}

_{Registration Desk Hours:

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	Saturday, 15th August 2026
09:00 - 09:15	Welcome
09:15 - 10:00	Keynote, incl. discussion
	– Session 1: Usability – Chair: TBA
10:00 - 10:30	Sebastian Lubos, Alexander Felfernig, Viet-Man Le, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Doris Suppan, Reinhard Willfort, Ivan Dukic, Jeremias Fuchs and Manuel Henrich. Enabling Automated Usability Evaluation for Configurator User Interfaces 25 min + 5 Q&A
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
	– Session 2: AI and Configuration – Chair: TBA
11:00 - 11:30	Konstantin Herud and Joachim Baumeister. Position Paper: Use Cases for Generative AI in Product Configuration 25 min + 5 Q&A
11:30 - 12:00	Veronika Semmelrock, Benedetta Strizzolo, Francesco Zuccato, Gerhard Friedrich, Patrick Rodler and Konstantin Schekotihin. Learning to Solve and Optimize by Evolving Code 25 min + 5 Q&A
12:00 - 12:30	Viet-Man Le, Sebastian Lubos, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran and Alexander Felfernig. Cognitive Robustness of Large Language Models in Configuration Knowledge Engineering 25 min + 5 Q&A
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch break
	– Session 3: Usability – Chair: TBA
14:00 - 14:30	Qingsong Zhao, Oliver Bleisinger, Lars Hvam and Lars Lundberg Kristensen. Explaining Product Configurator Usage in Engineering companies: A Technology Acceptance Perspective 25 min + 5 Q&A
14:30 - 15:00	Walk to other venue
15:00 - 17:30	Industrial break out at Encoway GmbH and Cordes & Graefe KG
	End of first day
19:00	Workshop Dinner

	Sunday, 16th August, 2026
	– Session 4: Applications and Case Study – Chair: TBA
09:00 - 09:30	Franz Wotawa. An extended experimental evaluation of an answer set programming solution to the task assignment problem 25 min + 5 Q&A
09:30 - 10:00	Joachim Baumeister, Konstantin Herud, Jan Heuer, Jochen Reutelshöfer, Nicolas Rühling, Abdallah Saffidine and Torsten Schaub. The ShadowMaster Problem: A Real-World Case Study in Product Configuration 25 min + 5 Q&A
10:00 - 10:30	Kateryna Czerniachowska. Broken Retail States as Configurable Objects in Retail Shelf Systems 25 min + 5 Q&A
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
	– Session 5: Models – Chair: TBA
11:00 - 11:30	Alessio Trentin, Enrico Sandrin, Svetlana Suzic, Chiara Grosso and Cipriano Forza. Reconciling Product Flexibility with Cost, Delivery, and Quality: The Importance of Bundling Online Sales Configurator, Product Modularity and Knowledge Absorption from Customers 25 min + 5 Q&A
11:30 - 12:00	Carsten Sinz. Authoring Automotive Configurations with Internal DSLs 25 min + 5 Q&A
12:00 - 12:30	Reward
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch break
	End of second day

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