In today's eld of distributed software architectures there is a need for environments allowing the easy development of applications consisting of heterogeneous software modules and having various Quality of Service requirements (e.g., timeliness, availability or security). System customization using middleware-services is a promising solution to deal with the coexistence of multiple application...

Most papers related to Open Source Software (OSS) discuss the development of OSS, licensing issues, and motivations of developers. Research in the area of customization of OSS is rare, however. The process after the deployment of an OSS within a company remains unknown. There is a danger that it is often unstructured and error-prone since OSS develops in a more complex way than proprietary soft...

A new problem about the supply chain resource integration and optimization in mass customization (MC) by the fourth party logistics (4PL) is analyzed in this paper. On this basis, a dynamic and multi-objective optimization model and an algorithm are set up for the decision optimization of the supply chain resource integration in mass customization by 4PL. The optimization model and the algorith...

We consider a duopoly market with heterogeneous consumers. The firms initially produce vertically differentiated standard products located at the end points of the variety interval. Customization provides ideal varieties for consumers but has no effect on quality. The firms first choose whether to customize their products, then engage in price competition. We show that the low-quality firm neve...

Mass customization is seen more and more as an application of electronic commerce rather than a manufacturing approach. The paper sets a framework for value generation in mass customization based business models. Traditionally, mass customization was argued to be possible due to the capabilities of modern manufacturing technology. We argue that these capabilities are supplemented by a new set o...

Theories of knowledge reuse posit two distinct processes: reuse for replication and reuse for innovation. We identify another distinct process, reuse for customization. Reuse for customization is a process in which designers manipulate the parameters of metamodels to produce models that fulfill their personal needs. We test hypotheses about reuse for customization in Thingiverse, a community of...