Architectures for product families
Computers in Industry - Special issue: co-operation in manufacturing systems, CIM at work
Multiple abstraction levels in modelling product structures
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Modelling Product Structures by Generic Bills-of-Materials
Modelling Product Structures by Generic Bills-of-Materials
An Overview of the GXL Graph Exchange Language
Revised Lectures on Software Visualization, International Seminar
Representing Product Family Architectures in an Extensible Architecture Description Language
PFE '01 Revised Papers from the 4th International Workshop on Software Product-Family Engineering
Platform Engineering for the Medical Domain
PFE '01 Revised Papers from the 4th International Workshop on Software Product-Family Engineering
A generic and extensible information infrastructure framework for mass-customizing platform products
International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing - Networked Manufacturing and Mass Customization in the ECommerce Era: the Chinese Perspective
PRONTO: An ontology for comprehensive and consistent representation of product information
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
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This paper presents a new language, ppXML (platform product eXtensible Markup Language), for the lifecycle modelling of platform products in agile product development for mass customization (MC). ppXML has multi-folded meanings. Firstly, ppXML provides a set of constructs that are consistent with concepts and methods widely used in platform product development (PPD) for MC. Secondly, derived from XML as a sublanguage, ppXML is a standard and yet extensible modelling language dedicated to the modelling of product variants and platforms reflecting commonality, modularity, scalability and other strategies. Thirdly, ppXML can also be extended for defining web services deployed in the computation grid of web-based decision support systems (DSS) for platform product development and mass customization. Finally, ppXML serves as a standard interface with the product platform repository and a PPD web service registry, together with a set of online facilities for data representation and transformation between different components and parties involved in the web services. ppXML complements the efforts in product lifecycle data modelling by emphasizing the strategic level of product planning using a platform approach.