Self-organization and associative memory: 3rd edition
Self-organization and associative memory: 3rd edition
An infrastructure to support concurrent engineering in bid preparation
Computers in Industry - Special issue: co-operation in manufacturing systems, CIM at work
Fuzzy Systems for Management
Expert Systems
Supply chain planning opportunities for small and medium sized companies
Computers in Industry - Stimulating manufacturing excellence in small and medium enterprises
Efficient collaboration between main and sub-suppliers
Computers in Industry - Stimulating manufacturing excellence in small and medium enterprises
B2B eMarketplaces and small- and medium-sized enterprises
Computers in Industry - Stimulating manufacturing excellence in small and medium enterprises
Change management in concurrent engineering from a parameter perspective
Computers in Industry
DEXA '98 Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Global content management services for product providers and purchasers
Computers in Industry
An investigation into affective design using sorting technique and Kohonen self-organising map
Advances in Engineering Software
PDCS-a product definition and customisation system for product concept development
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Cooperator selection and industry assignment in supply chain network with line balancing technology
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Computers and Industrial Engineering
A functional-commercial analysis strategy for product conceptualization
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A quality-time-cost-oriented strategy for product conceptualization
Advanced Engineering Informatics
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Collaboration with other members of the supply chain is one means by which enterprises can compete in today's global business environment. Thus, early stages of the new product development process involve both technical activities, e.g. product platform definition and commercial activities, e.g. bidding for contracts. This paper introduces a bidding-based product conceptualization and partner selection (PCPS) system to help companies coordinate the two aspects. For product platform generation and eliciting bidding criteria, a well-established requirement acquisition technique known as general sorting was adapted and employed. In this regard, a self-organizing map (SOM) neural network was used to select preferred design options for bidding purpose. To effectively select partners participating in a collaborative design and bidding process, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) technique was subsequently employed for finalizing the product concept and supply chain. A case study on cellular phone design was then applied for illustrating the proposed prototype system.