Program
The papers of ConfWS’2026 will be downloadable here. They will be also available online in CEUR-WS.org after the workshop.
Location of the Workshop:
Campus of the University of Bremen, Building GW2, Room B3770
See here for more information.
Registration Desk Hours:
08:00 - 09:00, Oct 15, University of Bremen, Building GW2, Room B3770
| Saturday, 15th August 2026 | |
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| 09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Keynote, incl. discussion |
| – Session 1: Usability – Chair: TBA |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 venue NEOS, Konrad Zuse Str 8 for Industrial break out |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Keynote: Frank Dylla, Cordes & Graefe KG, Thorsten Krebs, encoway GmbH |
| 15:20 - 16:20 | Break |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Industrial Use Cases: Christoph Zengler, BooleWorks GmbH, Maximilian Heisiinger, Optoifkonf FlexCo, Martin Ring, DOCK.ONE |
| 16:40 - 17:25 | Panel discussion: Current research directions—and what industry truly needs |
| 17:25 - 17:45 | Lessons learned / Closing |
| End of first day | |
| 19:30 | Workshop Dinner |
| Sunday, 16th August, 2026 | |
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| – Session 4: Applications and Case Study – Chair: TBA |
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| 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 |
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| 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 - 13:00 | Reward & Next year’s workshop |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| End of second day |
Social Dinner
Saturday 15 August, 19:30h @ Restaurant Luv
The social dinner of ConfWS’26 will take placed at Restaurant Luv,
Schlachte 15-18, 28195 Bremen.
Restaurant LUV is a versatile dining spot located directly on the vibrant Schlachte Weserpromenade in the old town of Bremen. Operating as a restaurant, café, bar, and beer garden.