A fuzzy e-negotiation support system for inter-firm collaborative product development

A fuzzy e-negotiation support system for inter-firm collaborative product development

Significant advances in manufacturing technology and the rapid intensification of the Internet and electronic commerce diffusion have given rise to competitive differentiation and rapid adaptability to competitive change. New product development is a complex and collaborative process that requires negotiation and joint decisionmaking. We propose a fuzzy electronic negotiation (e-negotiation) su...

Product Development Decision Support System Customer-Based

Quality Function Deployment (QFD) has been traditionally used as a planning tool primarily for product development and quality improvement. In this context, many people have used QFD for making decisions on how to prioritize critical product areas from a customer perspective. However, it is the position of the author that the QFD process can be viewed as a decision support system that would enc...

Decision support system for selecting collaborative product development partners

Collaboration is becoming a new current paradigm for product manufacturing, as computer networks facilitate collaboration with partners located in widely distributed locations. Computer network technologies allow a large number of candidate partners to be examined for possible collaboration, so that the most suitable partner, or partners, can be selected from a broader, more diverse group than ...

FeNAs: a fuzzy e-negotiation agents system

As e-commerce becomes common a large number of Internet-based systems has been developed to assist users in different aspects of electronic trading. In particular systems that use software agent technologies are proving to be effective in supporting and automating various stages of the trading process (e.g. product finding, supplier finding, product ordering, delivery monitoring etc). More rece...

Interorganizational IT Support for Collaborative Product Development