Concepts for Modeling Hybrid Products in the Construction Industry

Methods for modeling products need to be extended or integrated with other methods when moving from products, i.e., tangible goods, to hybrid products. This paper investigates such modeling methods from a method-engineering perspective. In particular, we consider the construction industry which is i...

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Published inBusiness Information Systems Vol. 7; pp. 154 - 164
Main Authors Fensel, Dieter, Abramowicz, Witold
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Germany Springer 2008
Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
SeriesLecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Subjects
Business mathematics & systems
Hybrid Products
Information retrieval
Management decision making
Meta Modeling
Modeling Methods
Operational research
Product Data Management
Product Models
Reference Models
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ISBN9783540793953
354079395X
ISSN1865-1348
1865-1356
DOI10.1007/978-3-540-79396-0_14

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Summary:Methods for modeling products need to be extended or integrated with other methods when moving from products, i.e., tangible goods, to hybrid products. This paper investigates such modeling methods from a method-engineering perspective. In particular, we consider the construction industry which is increasingly subject of hybrid product strategies as a mean of differentiation. The contribution is that we (1) reconstruct core modeling concepts from six modeling methods and (2) integrate those into a meta model. The analysis shows that the so called result dimension is still dominating, thus what hybrid products provide whereas both the process and resource dimension lack attention and dedicated modeling concepts.
ISBN:9783540793953
354079395X
ISSN:1865-1348
1865-1356
DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-79396-0_14