| In this book, the results from a multi-year research project on the “Modeling, Planning, and Assessment of Business Transformation Processes in the Area of Mass Customization” are published. Among other topics, we analyze information and production systems for mass customization and we also develop steering and controlling concepts for the variety induced complexity problem. With the developed tools and frameworks, it is intended to provide basic approaches for coping with the main problems in mass customization, concerning the optimal product assortment to be offered to customers and the product variants to be selected for a particular customer during the interaction process.
“Information and Management Systems for Product Customization” can be positioned at the intersection of Operations Management, Computer Science and Industrial Engineering. It is targeted on a broad audience with both technical and economical backgrounds, especially researchers and students in the mentioned subject areas, but it is also directed towards practitioners in mass customizing industries.
We would like to acknowledge the efforts of Kluwer Academic Publishers, in particular Gary Folven. The research project was funded partly by grants from the Austrian Central Bank, OeNB, No. 9706, and from the Kaerntner Wirtschaftsfoerderungsfonds, KWF. |