International Journal of Mass Customisation  (IJMassC)
ISSN (Online): 1742-4216  -  ISSN (Print): 1742-4208

Published in 4 issues per year  (View Subscription Price)

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   Objectives

The IJMassC is aimed at providing an international forum for developing, promoting, disseminating and coordinating progress in mass customisation theories and practices among the relevant international professional communities.

   Readership

The IJMassC is targeted at academics, industrial practitioners, researchers, enterprise decision makers and indeed all professionals who are working in the field of mass customisation

   Contents

The IJMassC publishes original research and application papers, review papers, research and technical short notes, case studies, empirical field studies, conference reports, management reports, book reviews, commentaries, and news. Contributions may be by submission or invitation, and suggestions for special issues devoted to important topics in Mass Customisation are welcome.

   Subject Coverage

IJMassC invites contributions addressing theories, methods, tools, models, practices, and enabling technologies related to all aspects of mass customisation at all levels, including business strategies, organisational structures, management and product information management, market development, strategic product planning, product design, product development and realisation, process planning, production planning and scheduling, manufacturing system design and analysis, assembly lines, quality control and planning, logistics and supply chain management, technical support and customer services, and product recycling and disposal. Mass customisable products not only include manufactured products, but also software and service products.

The coverage of IJMassC includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• Fundamental issues of mass customisation (variety, modularity, commonality, adaptability, flexibility, reusability, customisability, economies of scale and scope, etc.)
• Customer engineering, kansei engineering, requirement management, product definition, product line planning, product portfolios
• Product architecture, product platform, product family architecture, modular and integral product architecture, platform development and customisation, variant handling, design modelling and support
• Agile, flexible and reconfigurable processes, systems and supply chains, process and assembly planning, production management
• Logistics engineering and supply chain management, early supplier and customer involvement
• Enabling technologies, business models
• Product, process, system and facility configuration and modularisation
• Performance management in customisation including the cost of variety, time to market, etc.
• Computational intelligence in mass customisation (intelligent modelling of products, product platforms, product variants, product families, product portfolios, etc.)
• Knowledge management, enterprise modelling, e-business and e-commerce, web and internet applications
• Decision supports for mass customisation

   Specific Notes for Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written).

All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Submission of Papers web-page.

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details of file formats in Author Guidelines) to Prof. George Q. Huang

Please include in your submission the title of the Journal

   Editors and Members of the Editorial Board

Honorary Editor

Mr. B. Joseph Pine II
Strategic Horizons LLP
105 Woodland Trace
Aurora OH 44202-8076
USA

Prof. Mitchell M. Tseng
Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Clear Water Bay
Kowloon
HONG KONG (CHINA)

Editor in Chief

Prof. George Q. Huang
The University of Hong Kong
Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Pok Fu Lam Road
Pokfulam
HONG KONG (CHINA)
gqhuang@hku.hk

Associate Editors

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Friedrich
Department of Computer Science and Manufacturing
Universität Klagenfurt
Universitätsstraße 65-67
9020 Klagenfurt
AUSTRIA

Prof. Bart MacCarthy
Nottingham University Business School
University of Nottingham
Jubilee Campus
Nottingham NG8 1BB
UK

Prof. Frank T. Piller
TUM Business School, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Sloan School of Management
50 Memorial Drive, Room E52-513
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA

Dr. Timothy W. Simpson
Departments of Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering and Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
University Park PA 16802
USA

Editorial Board Members

Mr. Christoph BergerCh
adidas-Salomon AG
Adi-Dassler-Str. 1-2
91074 Herzogenrauch
GERMANY

Prof. Dr. Thorsten BleckerTh
Department of Business Logistics and General Management (5-11)
Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)
Schwarzenbergstr. 95
21073 Hamburg
GERMANY

Prof. Xin ChenXi
School of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering
Guang Dong University of Technology
East Dong Feng Road
Guang Zhou
P.R. CHINA

Prof. Kai ChengKa
Head, Advanced Manufacturing & Enterprise Engineering (AMEE)
Brunel University
School of Engineering and Design
Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH
UK

Prof. Gunnar ErixonGu
Dalarna University
781 88 Borlänge
SWEDEN

Dr. Cipriano ForzaCi
DIMeC
Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Via Vignolese 905/B
41100 Modena
ITALY

Prof. Kikuo FujitaKi
Department of Computer-Controlled Mechanical Systems
Osaka University
2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita
Osaka 565-0871
JAPAN

Prof. P.H. GuP.
Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
The University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
CANADA

Dr. Louise GuayLo
My Virtual Model Inc.
80 Queen St., Suite 502
Montreal, Quebec H3C 2N5
CANADA

Mr. Mark W. HansenMa
Global Supply Chain, Strategies and Projects
Lego System A/S
7190 Billund
DENMARK

Prof. Paul HumphreysPa
University of Ulster
School of Management
Jordanstown, Shore Road
Newtownabbey, Country Antrim
Northern Ireland BT37 OQB
UK

Prof. Pingyu JiangPi
Xi'an Jiaotong University
CAD/CAM Institute
School of Mechanical Engineering
Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049
P.R. CHINA

Prof. L. LiangL.
Business School
University of Science and Technology of China
Hefei, Anhui Province
P.R. CHINA

Prof. Ian McCarthyIa
Canada Research Chair in Management of Technology
Simon Fraser University
Segal Graduate School of Business
515 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3
CANADA

Prof. Marc MeyerMa
Northeastern University
212 Hayden Hall
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston MA 02115
USA

Prof. Farrokh MistreeFa
The Systems Realization Laboratory
The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta GA 30332-0405
USA

Prof. Yoram ReichYo
School of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Tel Aviv University
Ramat Aviv 69978
ISRAEL

Prof. Ralf ReichwaldRa
TUM Business School
Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Leopoldstrasse 139
80804 Munich
GERMANY

Dr. M. Johnny RungtusanathamM.
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Carlson School of Management
Operations & Management Science Department
321 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
USA

Prof. Fabrizio SalvadorFa
Instituto de Empresa
Maria de Molina, 12
28006 Madrid
SPAIN

Prof. Paul H. ZipkinPa
The T. Austin Finch, Sr. Professor of Business
Duke University
The Fuqua School of Business
Durham NC 27708-0120
USA