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

Variability Management (VM) in Software Product Line (SPL) is a key activity that usually
affects the degree to which a SPL is successful. SPL community has spent huge amount of …

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

Abstract Software Product Line (SPL) Engineering has proved to be an effective method for
software production. However, in the SPL community it is well recognized that variability in …

With the advent of the big-data era, massive information stored in electronic and digital forms
on the internet become valuable resources for knowledge discovery in engineering design …

One emerging strategy in industrialized construction is the use of mass customization to
increase product efficiency without sacrificing design flexibility. Effective implementation of …

Successfully managed product information for mass customization avoids disclosure of how
these systems work. This is the first book to provide a holistic recognition of the essential …

Configuration problems are a thriving application area for declarative knowledge
representation that currently experiences a constant increase in size and complexity of …

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 …

Many companies are currently facing the “customization-responsiveness squeeze”, ie the
need to simultaneously offer their customers tailored products while ensuring short delivery …