Mining Consumer-Generated Product-Configuration Data

Many companies offer their customers the possibility to configure their products online and thus to tailor them to their needs and wants. Today, this capability is implemented via sophisticated product-configurators which in parallel record those consumer-generated configurations. However, while a huge volume of such configuration data is recorded, little research has been conducted in the field of mining such configuration data. This is at least in part due to the non-availability of open configuration data sets. For the workshop of the special interest group for data analysis of the German Classification Society in Karlsruhe on 20–21 November 2015, the German market research.