Shorter product cycles, lower prices, and the production of highly variant products tailored to the customer needs are the main reasons for the proceeding success of product configuration systems. However, today’s product configuration systems are designed for solving local configuration tasks only, although the economic development towards webs of highly specialized solution providers demands ...

In current business environment many OEM companies are employing mass customization strategy, which has implication on the entire operations of an enterprise and especially influences the character of assembly processes. Increased product differentiation in context of customized production causes significant changes in complexity of assembly systems. Our focus in this paper is the development o...

This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Intern...

In this world, health is the most important factor and subject in society and social life. Thus, this sector gets more importance to give better service and to use resources more efficiently under the health economy. In this paper, it is designed and conducted a web based biotelemetry application works on WiMAX. First; Patient Communication Node (PCN), Client Communication Node (CCN) and Admini...

Nowadays, as the use of computers is rapidly spreading to our life, software is getting more and more complex and large in computer systems. Therefore, the software configuration management (SCM) is playing an increasingly important role in the software development process. One of its significant activities is change management, which has an outstanding role in dealing with the continued and co...

Potential customers leave product configuration processes before completion for a variety of reasons. Using Social Cognitive Theory, explanations for this behavior are derived based on the two dimensions of 1) customer mind states within the process, in combination with 2) type of product to be customized. It is shown, that both dimensions have considerable impact on why customers abort configu...

Creating a valid software configuration of a product line can require laborious customizations involving multiple configuration file types, such as feature models, domain-specific languages, or preprocessor defines in C header files. Using configurable off-the-shelf components causes additional complexity. Without checking of constraints across file types boundaries already at configuration tim...

In this paper we describe a methodology and algorithm for historical analysis of the effort necessary for developers to make changes to software. The algorithm identifies factors which have historically increased the difficulty of changes. This methodology has implications for research into cost drivers. As an example of a research finding, we find that a system under study was “decaying” in th...