Conference Announcements and Calls for Papers (Updated)
The next MCPC (World Conference on Mass Customization and Personalization) event will take place not before fall 2007. But there will several smaller meetings in 2006 which aim to provide a platform for exchange around specialized topics on mass customization.
The MCPC committee strongly endores these activities. We are glad that also other scholars step forward to give mass customization a larger platform. These events will be highly focused on specific urgent topics, providing a great opportunity to learn more about these topics.
Have a look at the following call for papers and consider your active contribution to these events:
(1) ECAI 2006 Workshop on Configuration
(2) POMS 2006 Boston - MC Track & Industry Panel
(3) INFORMS 2006 Hong Kong - MC Track
(4) MCP-CE2006 Poland - MC in East Europe
(5) Adaptables 06 The Netherlands - MC in Architecture Track
(6) IMCM 06 & PETO 06 Hamburg, Germany - MC Interaction & Configuration
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ECAI 2006 Workshop on Configuration
August 28-29, 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy, as part of the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2006) [ http://fmv.jku.at/ecai-config-ws-2006 ]
The 2006 Configuration Workshop continues the series of eight successful Configuration Workshops started at the AAAI'96 Fall Symposium and continued on IJCAI, AAAI, and ECAI since 1999. The main goal of the workshop is to promote high-quality research in all technical areas related to configuration and to bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. The workshop is of interest for both researchers working in the various fields of applicable AI technologies and industry representatives interested in the relationship between configuration technology and the business problem behind configuration and mass customization.
Areas of Interest:
* Configuration problems and models
* Reasoning methods
* Interactivity & e-business
* Integration into the business process
* Applications, tools and case studies
We hope to attract a balance of innovative papers on theoretical issues, practical applications–preferably applying a well defined theoretical model–and thorough case studies. We also solicit papers on new configuration problem instances.
Workshop participation will be by invitation only and will be limited to 40 participants. If you wish to participate, submit either a full paper of no more than 6 pages (or 6000 words), or a position statement, short paper, or problem instance (at most 3 pages or 3000 words). See the Workshop's web page for details on the submission procedure.
* Paper submission deadline: April 15th, 2006
* Configuration workshop: August 28th-29th, 2006
Workshop Chairs and Organizers:
- Carsten Sinz, JKU Linz, Austria ([email protected])
- Albert Haag, SAP AG, Germany ([email protected])
- Claire Bagley, Oracle Corporation, USA
- Alexander Felfernig, University Klagenfurt, Austria
- Esther Gelle, ABB Corporate Research AG, Switzerland
- Barry O'Sullivan, University College Cork, Ireland
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(2) POMS 2006 Mass Customization & Personalization Track
Mass Customization & Personalization Track at the 2006 POMS Conference, Boston, MA, April 28 – May 1, 2006.
Submission of papers are encouraged which are pertaining, but not restricted to, the following themes:
• What is Mass Customization and Personalization from an Operations Management perspective?
• Are there examples of successes and failures with the adoption of Mass Customization and Personalization? And what can we learn from them?
• What competitive advantages can be derived from a Mass Customization and Personalization strategy?
• What do we really know about Mass Customization and Personalization?
• What do we not know about Mass Customization and Personalization?
Descriptive, theory building, and theory testing papers based on rigorous research methodologies are all welcome.
The deadline for submissions of abstracts is January 15, 2006. All abstracts must be submitted via the POMS website http://www.poms.org. The website is available for submitting abstracts beginning November 30, 2005. Abstracts should be limited to 150 words.
Submission of Full Length Papers: Submission of full length papers is not mandatory for participation and presentation of papers in the conference. However, participants may submit full length papers to be published in the electronic proceedings of the conference.
Track Chairs: Fabrizio Salvador, Instituto de Empersa; C. Forza, U Padova; Manus Rungtusanatham, Arizona State U
INDUSTRY PANEL: I have committed myself to organize an industry panel as part of this track. If you represent an interesting company DOING mass customization, please contact me ([email protected]) so that we can discuss your part of this panel.
Conference Registration: All registration for the conference will be done on line through the POMS website http://www.poms.org\
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(3) INFORMS International 2006 Hong Kong - Mass Customization Track, June 25-28, 2006, Hong Kong
Mass Customization is coming back to Hong Kong as part of the International INFORMS conference. Prof. Mitchell Tseng, HKUST, is organizing a mass customization track as part of the Intl. INFORMS conference. You can participate by submitting an abstract until Jan. 15, 2006 on the conference web site.
Submit your abstract by January 15, 2006, at
http://www.informs.org/Conf/HongKong06
(be sure to select the Mass Customization Track during abstract submission).
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(4) 2nd International Conference on Mass Customization and Personalization in Central Europe (MCP-CE2006) (24-26 May 2006, Rzeszow, Poland)
How to bridge Mass Production and Mass Customization in Central European Countries?
The University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow (Poland) is hosting its second international conference dedicated to innovative business strategies, with a special focus on mass customization, in May 2006. The MCP-CE2006 is the 2nd event of its kind to approach the field of MCP in Central European Countries from an interdisciplinary perspective bridging scholar research and business practice.
The extended formula of the MCP-CE2006 includes a strong approach toward business practice. One of the key goals of the MCP-CE2006 is to discuss the development issues from the perspective of SMEs sector, which embraces over 90% of all companies in Central Europe. This issue will be addressed by keynote lectures, who will propose innovative and efficient approaches towards implementation, based on a close cooperation between industry and higher education sectors.
The conference organizers welcome abstracts/papers addressing the conference theme. Relevant topics include:
- Advances in MCP development in Central Europe
- Gaining competitive advantage through customer integration
- MCP best practices and case studies
- Manufacturing, logistics and supply chain management in the context of MCP development
- Information technologies as a key enabler for MCP
- Funding opportunity for innovative business approaches
Abstracts and speaking proposals are due om 28 February 2006. Conference organizer: Maciej Piotrowski ([email protected])
More information and full text of call for papers and list of topics: http://www.mass-customization.pl/MCP-CE2006
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(5) CIB W104 Open Building Implementation - Mass Customization in Architecture
, July 3-5, 2006, a TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
www.adaptables2006.nl
The call for abstracts is included in the website...the deadline is JANUARY 1, 2006.
CIB W104 Open Building Implementation will be part of the conference. We will be organizing at least two detailed case studies of realized open building projects. They will be presented by those involved in their
implementation. A panel of experts from a range of fields will have an opportunity to discuss the case studies, followed by audience participation in the discussion. This is particularly interesting because experts from the fields of building economics, architectural management and mass-customization can contribute substantially to putting open building practice in a larger intellectual and methodological persective...this should be a good way to engage in such interdisciplinary discussions. In addition to these in-depth case studies, we will have the normal paper sessions.
Chair: Stephen Kendall, Joint Coordinator, CIB W104, www.open-building.org
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(6) IMCM’06 and PETO’06 (22-23 June 2006, Hamburg, Germany):
Joint Conference of The International Mass Customization Meeting (IMCM’06): “Customer Interaction and Customer Integration” and The International Conference on Economic, Technical and Organizational Aspects of Product Configuration Systems (PETO’06): “How to Build and Implement Product Configuration Systems”
This international conference is co-organized by the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Technical University of Denmark and University Klagenfurt. Both events took place for a first time in 2004 (PETO) or 2005 (ICMC). This year, they team up to broaden its scope and reach.
The general objective of IMCM’06 is to discuss the new advancements in customer interaction and integration, which are of particular importance in order to ensure a successful implementation of mass customization. In fact, the scope of customer interaction and integration goes beyond the fulfillment of individual customer requirements within a given mass customization framework.
PETO’06 is dedicated to research related to product configuration systems. The benefits of such software systems for the automation of order fulfillment are well-known. However, building and implementing them still remain a challenging task. In fact, not only technological but also economical and organizational aspects are of high relevance in order for companies to put successfully these systems into practice. Topics
The conference organizers welcome abstracts/papers addressing topics relevant for customer interaction/customer integration and product configuration systems within the broad area of Mass Customization. Relevant topics include:
- Custom order control in MC manufacturing
- Customer needs’ elicitation
- Design and implementation of product configuration systems
- Design sales and engineering processes
- Implementation of configurators in practice
- Modeling a product assortment
- Organization effects of configurators
- Personalization and advisory systems
- Role of logistics service providers in customer integration
- Selection of standard configuration software for specific configuration tasks
- Short and long term economic impacts of product information systems
Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research results/best practices for consideration in IMCM’06 and PETO’06. An abstract is due until December 10, 2005.
Conference Chairs: Thorsten Blecker, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH); Gerhard Friedrich, University Klagenfurt; Kasper Edwards, Technical University of Denmark (DTU); Lars Hvam, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
More information and full text of call for papers and list of topics: http://www.manufacturing.de/calls/imcm06+peto06
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