This paper seems to abandon its stated purpose. The authors say the COSSACK project's purpose in relation to configuration is to:

1. understand it as a generic problem solving activity
2. relate it to other kinds of design tasks
3. identify the different kinds of knowledge and their use

      The authors go on to talk of interesting research issues which don't seem to relate directly to the purpose of the project, or at least are not mentioned as being related. There is an obvious connection between mapping from a configuration problem into a generalized constraint reasoning problem and relating configuration to other design tasks, but other than that, correlations are difficult to draw between the paper's content which mainly discusses the system and research issues, and the stated goals of the project.

      While there are many fine points made about the configuration task hidden in the examples of a system, its workings and the research issues explored, it would have been nice to have a summary of these points and the associated goals of the project.