This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 13171 “Customizing Service Platforms”. The aim of the seminar was to bring together researchers from different areas of academia and industry that are related to the seminar topic and typically do not intensively interact with each other. These communities are Product Line Engineering, Software Architecture, Service Engineer...

We study the economic tradeoffs that drive organizations to position themselves closer to or further away from a multi-sided platform (MSP) business model, relative to three traditional alternatives: vertically integrated firms, resellers or input suppliers. These tradeoffs lead to a comprehensive discussion of the defining features of MSPs. The formal model we develop focuses on the MSP versus...

The research contributes to the uncertainty management of engineering systems by proposing and demonstrating a way to implement flexible platform strategy to respond to future uncertainties. In today’s competitive market, where market segments are becoming more fragmented, pressure to develop and market diverse sets of products is increasing. To meet such market needs and reduce production cost...

Crowdfunding platforms have recently expanded their mission and domain into promoting social movements such as helping the communities or improving local amenities. This study taps less studied type of crowdfunding seeks to advance our understanding users' participation in supporting projects mediated by digital platforms. To this aim, we utilized a theoretical multiplicity approach for develop...