Product configuration systems (PCS) are IT-based expert systems, which contain product information and knowledge and in turn provide the basis for automating the decision-making processes in the order acquisition phase. Thereby PCS support and streamline the efforts of an organisations sales force in translating customer demands into customized products within a bounded range of product variati...

Product configuration is considered as one of the most successful applications of knowledgebased approaches in the past decade. Knowledge-based configurations can be classified into three different approaches, namely rule-based, model-based, and case-based approaches. Past research has mainly focused on the development of reasoning techniques for mapping requirements to configurations. Despite ...

This research investigates the phenomenon of increasing cost that results from growing product complexity. To explore this phenomenon, interviews with ten senior managers and engineers with long experience in the automotive business were conducted at a car manufacturer. The interviewees agreed that configuring cars becomes more time-consuming and costly with increasing product complexity. In th...

Configuration systems have widely been applied to efficiently address the customization responsiveness squeeze of companies dealing with Mass Cus-tomization. Over time, several frameworks have been introduced to enable their systematic planning , analyses, development and implementation. Traditional research has thereby either focused on defining modelling techniques for the configuration model...

To offer a large variety of products while maintaining low costs, high speed, and high quality in a mass customization product development environment, platform based product development has much benefit and usefulness in many industry fields. This paper proposes a product configuration strategy by similarity measure, incorporating the knowledge engineering principles such as product informatio...

Software Product Line engineering allows companies to realise significant improvements in timeto-market, cost, productivity, and system quality. One major difficulty with software product lines is that within industry there may exist thousands of variation points in a single product line. This scale of variability can become extremely complex to manage resulting in a product configuration proce...

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A Software Product Line (SPL) reuses software assets to implement products that share a significant set of their features. When developer needs generate new product, the selection features determines which components and source code are assembled together as product. In recent years, Database Laboratory has been working with SPL tech- nologies in field Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Our ...