Product family design and platform-based product development has received much attention
over the last decade. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art …

In an effort to improve customization for today's highly competitive global marketplace, many
companies are utilizing product families and platform-based product development to …

Knowledge-based Configuration incorporates knowledge representation formalisms to
capture complex product models and reasoning methods to provide intelligent interactive …

Being able to provide companies with a number of advantages in delivering customised
products, product configuration has received increasing attention from the academia and …

More and more firms today rely on product configurators to more efficiently and effectively
meet increasingly diverse customers' needs. In literature, however, the discussion of the …

Product configuration is a crucial means to implement the mass customization paradigm by
assembling a set of customizable components to satisfy both customers' needs and …

Effective and efficient development of product configuration systems, including the modeling
of product configuration knowledge and the development of inference systems, is a key …

Covering every aspect of the process, this book introduces the design, development,
manufacturing, and marketing of footwear. It also presents a comprehensive discussion of …

The consumer's experience of self-customizing a product with a sales configurator can be a
source of experience-related benefits for the consumer, above and beyond the traditionally …

Offering a large variety of products at competitive prices and reasonable delivery times is a
complex managerial challenge that many companies have to address. Software vendors …