ECAI 2010 Workshop on Configuration

Topics

In this year, two topics are focused:

1. to go beyond hardware configuration, i.e. software configuration, service configuration, or model transformation as well as
2. technical solutions for obtaining configuration models, i.e. integration of existing ontologies, learning configuration models, extracting parts of configuration knowledge from existing data, like databases or product data management systems, or knowledge acquisition methods.

Areas of interest, including but not limited to:

• Configuration problems and models:

  structure of configuration problems, knowledge representation, fuzzy and incomplete knowledge, knowledge base verification, validation and diagnosis, standardization of catalog exchange formats, configuration problems, including discrete/continuous/mixed constraints, product and process configuration, product design and configuration

• Techniques for obtaining configuration models:

  knowledge acquisition methods, cognitive approaches, machine learning, data extraction methods, ontology integration, knowledge elicitation

• Reasoning methods:

  constraint satisfaction problems and extensions, preference based reasoning, description logics, rules, case-based reasoning, SAT-solving, local search, genetic algorithms, neural networks, problem decomposition, optimization, multicriteria optimization, symmetry breaking, cooperative configuration processes, reconfiguration of existing systems, explanations, distributed problem solving, benchmark proposals, [knowledge-based] recommendation

• Interactivity and e-business:

  personalization, ontology, intelligent man machine interaction, machine learning, client/server architecture, configuration web service, distributed configuration, configuration process modeling

• Integration into the business process:

  product data management, CAD, pricing, ERP, CRM, process configuration

• Applications and tools:

  configuration tools, design tools, application reports, case studies, real-world challenges, test environments for configuration knowledge bases, configuration in related fields like software configuration, service composition, Model-Driven Engineering (MDE), Model Transformation, Model Satisfaction and Test Case generation for component-based software construction