From: AAAI Technical Report FS-96-03. Compilation copyright © 1996, AAAI (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved. Gerhard Fleischanderl Position Statement Siemens Austria, PSE EZE Erdberger Laende 26 A-1030 Vienna, Austria e-maih gerhard.fleischanderl@siemens.at Fax: +43 1 1707 55120 I wish to attend the symposiumbecause I want to gain new insights through discussions with other participants and want to contribute an industry perspective to the symposium. I have worked as a project manager with several software projects designing and implementing configurators. One configurator is employed in the client’s day-to-day work, another one is currently under development for some other client. Myongoing configurator project is based on constraint solving techniques and the prototype system COCOS.I was the coordinator of the COCOSproject, which was run by Siemens Austria jointly with the University of Technology Vienna. The work of COCOS is documented in several articles including the references [3] and [8] cited in the submitted paper. Benefitting from my experience with real-world configurator projects, I am confident to contribute substantially to discussions at the workshop. 147