In today's eld of distributed software architectures there is a need for environments allowing the easy development of applications consisting of heterogeneous software modules and having various Quality of Service requirements (e.g., timeliness, availability or security). System customization using middleware-services is a promising solution to deal with the coexistence of multiple application...

This chapter proposes a standard-based framework to assist industrial organizations to develop interoperability in mass customization Information Systems. After identifying the major challenges for business and information systems in mass customization, the authors propose an innovative standard-based conceptual architecture for a combined model-driven and services-oriented platform. The chapte...

Interfaces that support customization and can adapt to individuals’ specific use patterns may be more effective than ones designed to be “one size fits all”. However, to test whether such interfaces benefit users in actual everyday applications, a lot of underlying application infrastructure must be reimplemented to accommodate customization and adaptation. In this paper we discuss Haystack, a ...

This paper develops a new method for implementing masscustomization, namely, the customization around standard products, or catalog-based customization. The method addresses the customization requirements of a class of products that are complex in con guration, multi-functional and structurally similar. We formulate catalog-based customization as an optimization problem consistent with the manu...

The purpose of this study is to propose a model that explains the consumers’ perception of customization in e-commerce. This study suggests two determinants of consumer attitude toward the e-commerce website with customization options: perceived participation and perceived company responsiveness. Consumer attitude was posited to influence consumers’ intention to consider a long-term relationshi...

Mass Customization may be deployed in many different fashions depends on the nature of product characteristics, market segments, and their respective business environments. General trend shifts from personalize crafted, mass produced, to mass customized products throughout recent decades have evolved to unequal influences on today’s customizable product configurations. Life cycle durations and ...

While Mass Customization has already been discussed in the literature for more than a decade, increased practical implementation of this strategy can been found in business only within the last years. This time lag may be explained by the fact that only since few years sufficient technologies exist to handle the information flows connected with mass customization. Especially as mass customizati...

While the competitive advantage of mass customization has been widely substantiated in management theory, a deficit exists in the empirical examination and the implementation of mass customization in e-business strategies. Founded on an exploratory study of more than 100 international mass customizers we deploy a systematization to demonstrate how modern Internet technologies and possibilities ...

The ability for knowledge workers to customize their information space, to personalize the information items with which they work, is an important capability, one that is valuable in the performance of complex tasks. Ideally all of the information systems with which users interact would support the capability to personalize information by allowing the individualized customization of the data ob...