Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Knowledge capture
Data integration: a theoretical perspective
Proceedings of the twenty-first ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
Communications of the ACM - End-user development: tools that empower users to create their own software solutions
Meta-design: a manifesto for end-user development
Communications of the ACM - End-user development: tools that empower users to create their own software solutions
Product platform design and customization: Status and promise
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing - SPECIAL ISSUE: Platform product development for mass customization
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing - SPECIAL ISSUE: Platform product development for mass customization
Building environments for end-user development and tailoring
HCC '03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Symposium on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
Realization of a development platform for Web-based product customization systems
International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing - Networked Manufacturing and Mass Customization in the ECommerce Era: the Chinese Perspective
The “I Designed It Myself” Effect in Mass Customization
Management Science
Knowledge Ontology Based Management System of Furniture Design
IFCSTA '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Forum on Computer Science-Technology and Applications - Volume 03
Visual Interactive Systems for End-User Development: A Model-Based Design Methodology
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
End users as co-designers of their own tools and products
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
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Mass customization refers to the increase in variety and customization of the manufactured products and services. It is now economically feasible thanks to the availability of computer-aided manufacturing systems, which allow people to customize standard products, and to Internet, through which many online retailers now operate, thus eliminating the constraints of physical shelf space and other bottlenecks of distribution that, in past years, prevented the production of niche products because of their high production costs. To permit mass customization, several software-based product configurators are available on the Web: they guide people in adapting a product to their needs and desires. A drawback of such configurators is the limited range of changes permitted. We present in this paper a system that gives people more freedom in creating products that best fit their desires, thanks to the use of an ontology, which models the possible product compositions that users can perform. The proposed solution is shown through a case study, which refers to furniture production.