A. Addendum to Lemma 1: There are two cases depending on whether one of the firms dominates the market. The case where no firm dominates the market is described in Lemma 1. The following table states the equilibrium prices and profits when one of the firms dominates the market. We describe the equilibrium only when Firm 1 dominates the market for (T, T),(CU, CU) and (CM, CM) as the results are ...

A growing number of firms today have to cope with the twofold challenge of mass customization (i.e., combining high performance in product customization with high performance in cost, delivery and quality) and green management (i.e., integrating environmental-sustainability principles into businesses). Research on this joint challenge, however, is still limited in the literature. To narrow this...

Product customization has been recognized as an effective means to implement mass customization. This paper focuses on the customizability issue of design, that is, to evaluate the cost effectiveness of a design to be customized in order to meet individual customer needs. Three aspects of customizability are identified, namely, (1) design customizability: the intrinsic nature of product by desi...

Mass customization is a strategy that has been adopted by companies to tailor their products in order to match customer needs more precisely. Therefore, to fully capture the value of mass customization, it is crucial to explore how customers react to mass customization. In previous studies, an implied premise has been that consumers are keen to embrace customized products, and this assumption h...

In this paper we present a Multi-Agent learning system that assists students in Academic Advising (MASACAD). This system addresses information customization using a multi-agent paradigm in combination with other system components that include machine learning, user modeling, and Web mining. Preliminary testing of this system indicates significant feasibility in the development of systems based ...

This paper motivates the use of Information Extraction (IE) for gathering data on protein interactions, describes the customization of an existing IE system, SRI's Highlight, for this task and presents the results of an experiment on unseen Medline abstracts which show that customization to a new domain can be fast, reliable and cost-effective.

Study to explore the effect of customization towards user satisfaction in the daily operation of ERP system .Study carried out in four manufacturing companies. Indepth interviews and surveys used to measure the user satisfaction in the manufacturing companies. The results reveal that exceeding certain level of customization complexity index would reduce the user satisfaction level towards the E...

gff2psis a program for visualizing annotations of genomic sequences. The program takes the annotated features on a genomic sequence in GFF format as input, and produces a visual output in PostScript. While it can be used in a very simple way, it also allows for a great degree of customization through a number of options and/or customization files.

Mass Customization (MC) stands for the ability to develop high value-added products within short time frames and at relatively low costs. Although this strategy has been successfully applied in several industries, in construction it has been mostly limited to a few companies that produce factory-built and manufactured homes. In Brazil, where traditional construction techniques are majorly adopt...

Mass customization manufacturers always find it challenging to produce high quality products at the lowest possible cost with minimal lead-time. The challenge is even more severe for these manufacturers when it comes to their survival in today’s dynamically changing market where customers drive the process by searching for the information they need in order to create their own products and serv...