Product configuration systems are an emerging technology that supports companies in deploying mass customization strategies. Such strategies need to cover the management of the whole customizable product cycle. Adding process modeling and configuration features to a product configurator may improve its ability to assist mass customization development. In this paper, we describe a modeling frame...

In the last decades, variability management for similar products is one of the main challenges in software systems. In this context, feature models are used to describe the dependencies between reusable common and variable artifacts, called features. However, for large feature models it is a complex task to find a valid feature combination as product configuration. Our Eclipse plug-in FeatureID...

Constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) paradigm has proved highly successful for solving product configuration problems, particularly for build-to-order configuration in determining combination of different predefined component types. However, many real world customized products deal with engineer-to-order configuration, where product configuration is generated not only from combinations of diff...

This paper addresses product configuration and product derivation in product lines of embedded systems. We show how domain-specific languages (DSLs), which are used to describe the implementation of the product, can be translated into configurable models with formal semantics. This facilitates, tool support during configuration including (1) side-byside visualization of features and correspondi...

W purchase and consumption decisions are separated in time and when future utility is state dependent, consumers may desire to pursue consumption flexibility by purchasing different products together (multiple buying). This paper analyzes the effects of consumption flexibility on competing firms’ marketing mix decisions, in a model in which future preference uncertainty exists and consumers dif...

Knowledge-based product configurators support their users in tailoring configurable products according to their specific demands and these systems have been successfully applied in many industrial sectors over the last decades. However, within today's networked economy, the complex solutions offered to the customers are in many cases assembled from configurable sub-products themselves. Within t...

In Software Product Lines (SPLs), product configuration is a decision-making process in which a group of stakeholders indicate the features desired for a particular product (software). A feature model is normally used to represent the spectrum of available configuration decisions and thus works as a guide to the configuration process. Although in practice product configuration is seen as a coll...

In order to meet the design requirements of quick configuration of products for consumers, facing the problems of the poor share and reuse of product configuration knowledge, and inefficient configuration, propose the product configuration design method of product family model based on the forecast of user demands. Build the ontology modeling of product family using the share and reuse of ontol...

Software Product Line has proved to be an effective approach to benefit from software reuse. Configuration management, an integral part of any software development activity, takes on a special significance in software product line context. This is due to the special property of software product line, in which the core assets are shared by all products. In this paper, we compare the existing con...

Configuration Management systems facilitate the configuration and version control operations associated with the information pertaining to each release of a product. Such systems are critical components of any concurrent engineering environment inasmuch as they manage the complexity of the information (like specifications, design files, test results, documentation, engineering change orders) an...