Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are becoming increasingly complex, motivating research into ways of providing users with interfaces that are customized or personalized to their individual needs. Two opposing approaches to interface customization that have received the most attention to date are adaptable and adaptive approaches. An adaptable approach places the user in charge of customizing th...

Customizable designs are a fundamental research topic concerning the mass customization community. For successful customization of products, customizable product design architecture is important. Various design theories like modularity drivers (Ericsson/Erixon,1999), design axiom principles (Suh,1990) ,design family architecture(Nayak/Chen/Simpson,2002) and portfolio architecture(Yu/Zugasti/Ott...

Software mass customization is a po werful business model as well as a powerful engineering model that enables software organizations to efficiently engineer a software product line comprising substantially similar variations of a software system. This document describes software mass customization in three parts. First is an overview of software mass customization and its benefits. Second is a...

Multi-tenancy is one of the most important concepts for any Software as a Service (SaaS) application. Multi-tenant SaaS application serves a large number of tenants with one single application instance. Complex SaaS application that serves significant number of tenants could have a huge number of customizations with complicated relationships, which increases the customization complexity and red...

Purpose Most mass customization literature focuses on the move from mass production to mass customization. However, in some literature Engineer-To-Order (ETO) companies are also claimed to have become mass customizers, although it can be questioned if these companies conform to popular definitions of mass customizers. This raises the question: Under which conditions is it reasonable to label ET...