Managing the firm’s product line offerings is one of the most important tasks that managers undertake. The composition and quality of the products that the firm offers significantly affect its market share, reputation, and ultimately, the organization’s financial performance and prospects for survival in the market. Managing product lines, moreover, is difficult, and both development and mainte...

Software as a Service (SaaS) has become the new paradigm in software development. Ecosystems of Web Services can be flexibly and dynamically composed to suit user specific needs. Quality is essential to the success of service based applications. The process of service composition has a major impact on the quality of the final product. We propose a dynamic and flexible Quality of Service Composi...

A debutanizer column is an integral part of any petroleum refinery. Online composition monitoring of debutanizer column outlet streams is highly desirable in order to maximize the production of liquefied petroleum gas. In this article, data-driven models for debutanizer column are developed for real-time composition monitoring. The dataset used has seven process variables as inputs and the outp...

No. 165 Modularity is a new product development strategy in which interfaces shared among components in a given product architecture become specified and standardized to allow for greater substitutability of components across product families. This paper introduces a mathematical model, termed modularization function, for analyzing the degree of modularity in a given product architecture by tak...

The kinetics; evolution of molar mass; solution conductivity, sigma; intrinsic viscosity; and average composition drift; and distribution were determined by monitoring the synthesis of copolymeric polycations of acrylamide (Am) and [2-(acryloyloxy)ethyl]-trimethylammonium chloride (Q9). The quantitative relationship between diminishing sigma and charged co-monomers incorporation was monitored f...