AIEDAM
Special Issue, January 2004, Vol.18, No.1
Platform Product Development for Mass Customization
Edited by:
George Huang, Roger Jiao, and Mitchell Tseng
A contemporary approach to agile product development for mass
customization is to derive distinctively different products from a
single platform. A "platform" is defined as component and subsystem
assets commonly shared across a family of products. Significant
benefits have been observed in numerous success stories from industrial
sectors such as airplanes, automobiles, personal computers, printers,
hand tools, toasters, etc.
The platform product development approach usually includes two main
phases. One is the establishment of the appropriate product platform
and the other is the customization of the platform into individual
product variants to meet the specific market, business and engineering
needs. The establishment, maintenance and application of the right
product platform are very complex. Several qualitative frameworks have
been proposed for both phases in platform product development. They
provide valuable managerial guidelines in implementing the platform
product development approach. However, there are very few systematic
quantitative or intelligent methodologies to support the product
development team members to adopt this platform product development
practice, despite the progress made in several research projects.
The goal of this special issue is to take a snapshot of the progress
in the research into the decision support systems for platform product
development and to disseminate how recent developments in
computational AI techniques (e.g., Knowledge Representation, Heuristic
Search, Evolutionary Computing, Classification, Ontologies, etc.) can
improve and enhance such support. Researchers are invited to submit
papers related to, but not limited to, one or more of the areas listed
below:
- Product platform development;
- Product family architecture;
- Intelligent modeling of products, product platforms, product
variants, product families, product portfolios, etc.;
- Knowledge management in platform product development;
- Product platform customization;
- Evolutionary computing in product customization;
- Measurement of customizability.
Papers of both theoretical and practical nature are welcome. The Guest
Editors are also interested in authoritative literature review of the
state of the art and directions for future research in the field.
All submissions will be first screened by the Guest Editors for their
relevance to the special issue and then anonymously reviewed by at
least two reviewers in order to ensure quality.
Further details about this special issue can be found at
www.digiprise.org/AIEDAM/
Information about the format and style required for
AIEDAM papers can be found at
www.cs.wpi.edu/~aiedam/Instructions/
Important dates:
Title + Abstract: As soon as possible
Submission of full papers to Guest Eds: 31 January 2003
Notification and reviews to authors: 30 April 2003
Submission of revised manuscripts: 30 June 2003
Final notification and re-reviews: 30 July 2003
Final submission for production: 15 August 2003
Publication: February 2004
Guest editors:
Dr. George Huang
Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering,
The University of Hong Kong,
Pokfulam Road,
Hong Kong
CHINA
Email: gqhuang@hku.hk
Tel: (852)28592591
Fax: (852)28586535
Dr Roger Jiao
School of Mechanical and Production Engineering,
Nanyang Technological University,
Nanyang Avenue 50,
SINGAPORE 639798
Email: mjiao@ntu.edu.sg
Tel: (65)67904143
Fax: (65)67911859
Professor Mitchell Tseng
Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management,
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
Clearwater Bay,
Hong Kong
CHINA
EMail: Tseng@ust.hk
Tel: (852)23587091
Fax: (852)23580062
