Decision support system for product configuration in mass customization environments

Concurrent Engineering Research and Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 131-144

  Frutos, Juan Diego ^a   Santos, Eduardo Ribas ^a   Borenstein, Denis ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Design and customer collaboration; Mass customization; Object oriented modeling; Product configuration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PRODUCT DESIGN;

DESIGN AND CUSTOMER COLLABORATION; INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MASS CUSTOMIZATION; PRODUCT CONFIGURATION;

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING;

EID: 3042646354     PISSN: 1063293X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1063293X04044382     Document Type: Article

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