Under the growing trend of personalization and socialization, social manufacturing is an
emerging technical and business practice in mass individualization paradigm that allows …

Traditional manufacturing researches are mainly focusing on one concrete technology
application, such as production model, supplier management, advanced automatic …

Rapid development in mobile technologies, 3D printing and social networks has paved the
way for the new phenomenon called Social manufacturing. Social manufacturing represents …

After reviewing the development of industrial manufacturing, a novel concept called social
manufacturing (SM) and service are proposed as an innovative manufacturing solution for …

Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies are one of the foundations of the so-called third
industrial revolution. Additive Manufacturing can reshape the typical structure of …

With increasing product personalization and open innovation, the manufacturing paradigm
has been transforming to a more decentralized and socialized one. Social manufacturing …

Internet-based connecting and communicating behaviors with each other are becoming
basic requirements for human beings, not only in daily life but also during product …

The intelligent manufacturing is a complex engineering system, and the cyber–physical
systems (CPSs) and the industrial Internet are the preliminary infrastructures. When cyber …

The goal of manufacturing no longer lies in making products in a system level but extends to
the systematic processing of information and resources to create more flexible and timely …

Welcome to the fifth issue of the IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
(TCSS) this year. Seventeen regular articles and a brief discussion on social manufacturing …