There has been a great deal of interest in recent years in developing operating systems that can be customized to meet the performance and functionality needs of particular applications while being extensible to support new policies, new implementations and new interfaces. We describe a structuring technique, called building-block composition, that we are employing for this purpose. The customi...

Mass customization refers to a business strategy that conciliates two different business practices, which are mass production and craft production. It aims to provide customers with individualized products at near mass production efficiency. In fact, there are many approaches in order to implement mass customization. In this context the customer order entry point plays an important role as an i...

In this paper we address object-oriented component integration issues. We argue that traditional framework customization techniques are inappropriate for component-based programming since they lack support for non-invasive, encapsulated, dynamic customization. We propose a new language construct, called a pluggable composite adapter, for expressing component gluing. A pluggable composite adapte...

Mobile commerce as a new degree of electronic commerce arises from the convergence of Internet and mobile communication technologies. In order to be successful in mobile business, it is not sufficient to simply transfer conventional Internet applications or E-Commerce business models on mobile devices. Added values for the customer are necessary. Typical informational added values in Mobile Com...

Customization is essentially a pull system and customers' demand for customized products is the ultimate force that drives a customization business. Research in product customization has been primarily focused on improving manufacturers' efficiency in eliciting and fulfilling customers' needs; less attention has been paid to customers' procurement decisions. Although systems like product config...

Businesses that purchase packaged application software – for example, an Enterprise Resource Planning system – must make choices about customization. Packaged software vendors, anecdotal evidence, and practitioner-oriented research all recommend that businesses should customize software as little as possible, and instead adapt their processes to meet the “best practices” of the software. Howeve...

While the competitive advantage of mass customization has been widely substantiated in management theory since more than a decade, its implementation in business can be observed just within the last years. In this paper we demonstrate how modern Internet technologies and possibilities of e-business work as success factors for mass customization. Especially, we deploy how intermediaries can add ...