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Bolstered by significant productivity improvement in manufacturing technology, the construction paradigm has shifted toward industrialized construction methods, such as modular construction. Modular construction has benefitted from the long term development of the manufacturing technologies and core techniques used in the assembly production lines of construction prefabrication plants. Lean pro...

DEVS is an increasingly accepted framework for understanding and supporting modeling and simulation. DEVS is a sound formal framework based on generic dynamic systems, including well defined coupling of components, hierarchical, modular construction, support for discrete event approximation of continuous systems and support for repository reuse. DEVS theory provides a rigorous method for repres...

In this paper, we prove the existence and uniqueness of fixed points for cyclic (α,β)-admissible type F-contraction and F−weak contraction under the setting of modular spaces, where the modular is convex and satisfying the ∆2-condition. Later, we prove some periodic point results for self-mappings on a modular space. We also give some examples to s...

Product design techniques that support mass customization include product platform design, computer-aided parametric design and modular design, among others. Unfortunately, no rigorous method has appeared until now to help designers combine these approaches systematically and maximize the quality and economic benefits of component commonality, particularly for very large number of product varia...