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SoberIT Report Series (Research Reports, Preprints, and Technical Reports)

List of SoberIT's Research Groups' and Projects' Publications:


SPRG

Ongoing projects:

SHAPE (2004-2007)

Itkonen, J., Mäntylä, M. V., Lassenius C, "Defect Detection Efficiency: Test Case Based vs. Exploratory Testing", in Proceedings of the first International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), 2007 (forthcoming)

Lehtola, L. & Kauppinen M. & Vähäniitty, J. "Strengthening the link from business decisions to requirements engineering: Long-term product planning in software product companies". Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'07), New Delhi, India, Oct 2007 (forthcoming)

Vanhanen, J., C. Lassenius, and M. V. Mäntylä, "Issues and Tactics when Adopting Pair Programming: A Longitudinal Case Study", In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2007), forthcoming August 2007.

Vanhanen, J. and C. Lassenius, “Perceived Effects of Pair Programming in an Industrial Context“, In Proceedings of the 33rd EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (EUROMICRO-SEAA’07), forthcoming August 2007. Available as: PDF

Vanhanen, J. and Korpi, H.: Experiences of Using Pair Programming in an Agile Project. In Proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-40), Hawaii, USA, January 2007. Available as: PDF.

Mäntylä, M. V. and Lassenius, C. "Drivers for Software Refactoring Decisions". in Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, pp. 297-306, 2006, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Available as: pdf

Vähäniitty, J. "Do Small Software Companies Need Portfolio Management?”. Proceedings of the 13th International Product Development Management Conference, Milan, Italy, Jun 2006. Available as: pdf

Mäntylä, M. V. and Lassenius, C. "Subjective Evaluation of Software Evolvability Using Code Smells: An Empirical Study". Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, vol. 11, no. 3, 2006, pp. 395-431. Available as: pdf

Kaarlas, J. & Vähäniitty, J. "Tool support for software product and release planning - requirements and current solutions". Working paper, 8/2005. Available as: pdf.

Vähäniitty, J. "Do Small Software Companies Need Portfolio Management, Too?”. Licenciate Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, 2/2006. Available as: pdf.

Mäntylä, M. :"Two Experiments on Subjective Evaluation of Code Evolvability" Licentiate Thesis. Helsinkin University of Technology, 2005. Available as: pdf

Mäntylä, M. V., "An Experiment on Subjective Evolvability Evaluation of Object-Oriented Software: Explaining Factors and Interrater Agreement",
in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, 2005, Noosa, Australia

Itkonen, J. and K. Rautiainen. "Exploratory Testing: A Multiple Case Study", in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, 2005 ( pdf)

Itkonen, J., K. Rautiainen and C. Lassenius. "Towards Understanding Quality Assurance in Agile Software Development", Proceedings of the International Conference on Agility, pp. 201-207, 2005. ( pdf)

Vanhanen, J. and Lassenius, C.: Effects of Pair Programming at the Development Team Level: An Experiment. Proceedings of International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE 2005), Noosa, Australia, November 2005. Available as: PDF.

Mäntylä, M. V., Vanhanen, J, and Lassenius, C., Bad Smells - Humans as Code Critics. Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance, 2004, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Rautiainen, Kristian. Cycles of Control: A Temporal Pacing Framework for Software Product Development Management. Licentiate Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, 2004. Available as PDF.

Vanhanen, J.: Effects of Pair Programming at the Development Team Level: An Experiment. Licentiate Thesis. Helsinki University of Technology, 2005. Available as: PDF.

Vähäniitty, J. "A Tentative Framework for Connecting Long-Term Business and Product Planning with Iterative & Incremental Software Product Development". In proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Economic-Driven Software Engineering Research (EDSER-7) at ICSE 2005, St. Louis, USA, 2005. Available as: pdf.

Vähäniitty, J & Rautiainen, K. "Towards an Approach for Development Portfolio Management in Small Product-Oriented Software Companies". In proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38), Jan 2005. Available as: pdf.

Completed projects:

SEMS (2000-2004)

Rautiainen, K., and C. Lassenius. (editors) "Pacing Software Product Development: A Framework and Practical Implementation Guidelines". Helsinki University of Technology Software Business and Engineering Institute Technical Reports 3, pp. 23-49. Helsinki, 2004 ( electronic edition of the book published 9/2006)

Vähäniitty, J. Product Portfolio Management in Small Software Product Businesses - a Tentative Research Agenda. In proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Economic-Driven Software Engineering Research (EDSER-6) at ICSE 2004, May 2004, Edinburgh, Scotland

Mäntylä, M. V., Developing New Approaches for Software Design Quality Improvement Based on Subjective Evaluations. In proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (doctoral symposium), pp. 48-50, May 2004, Edinburgh, Scotland

Rautiainen, K., and C. Lassenius (editors). Pacing Software Product Development: A Framework and Practical Implementation Guidelines. Helsinki University of Technology Software Business and Engineering Institute Technical Reports 3, Helsinki, 2004

Pyhäjärvi, M., K. Rautiainen "Integrating Testing and Implementation into Development" Engineering Management Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2004, pp. 33-39.

Mäntylä, M. "A Taxonomy and an Initial Empirical Study of Bad Smells in Code". Fast track conference paper at 19th ICSM, 2003.

Vähäniitty, J. " Key Decisions in Strategic New Product Development for Small Software Product Businesses". Software Process and Product Improvement track in EuroMicro-29, Sep 2003. Presentation available in PDF format.

Vähäniitty, J. " Business-driven New Product Development Process Improvement in Small Software Product Businesses - Theory and a Research Application". Work-in-progress session in  EuroMicro-29, Sep 2003. Presentation available in PDF format.

Rautiainen, K., Vuornos, L. Lassenius, C. "An Experience in Combining Flexibility and Control in a Small Company’s Software Product Development Process". Final submission to ISESE 2003.

Mäntylä, M. "Bad Smells in Software - A Taxonomy and an Empirical Study" - Master's Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, 2003. Available as: PDF

Vähäniitty, J. "Product Strategy Decisions in Small Software Product Businesses - a Framework and Experiences".  Master's Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, 2003. Available as: PDF

Pyhäjärvi, M., K. Rautiainen and J. Itkonen "Increasing Understanding of the Modern Testing Perspective in Software Product Development Projects", In Proceedings of HICSS-36, 2003. Available as: PDF

Vanhanen, J., J. Jartti and T. Kähkönen "Practical Experiences of Agility in the Telecom Industry", In Proceedings of XP2003, 2003. Available as: PDF

Vanhanen, J., J. Itkonen and P. Sulonen "Improving the Interface Between Business and Product Development Using Agile Practices and the Cycles of Control Framework", In Proceedings of Agile Software Development Conference, 2003. Available as: PDF

Vähäniitty, J., Lassenius, C., Rautiainen, K.  An Approach to Product Roadmapping in Small Software Product Businesses. Quality Connection - 7th European Conference on Software Quality, Conference Notes, pp. 12-13, Jun 2002 - Paper available as: PDF. Posters and full text version available here.

Rautiainen, K., C. Lassenius and R. Sulonen "4CC: A Framework for Managing Software Product Development", Engineering Management Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2, June 2002.

Vuornos, L., Software Process Improvement in a Small High-Tech Company: Case Smartner Information Systems Ltd., Master's Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, May 2002. Available as: PDF

Rautiainen, K., C. Lassenius, J. Vähäniitty, M. Pyhäjärvi and J. Vanhanen "A Tentative Framework for Managing Software Product Development in Small Companies", In Proceedings of HICSS-35, 2002. Available as: PDF

 

Lucos Tools (1998-2003)

Kilponen, Pekka, Vanhanen, Jari. ViCA - A WWW based Tool for Visualizing Project Status. In Proceedings of HICSS-33, January 2000. Available as: PDF (246 kB).

Vanhanen, Jari, Risku, Kai, Kilponen, Pekka. Combining Data from Existing Company Data Sources: Architecture and Experiences. In Proceedings of HICSS'33, January 2000. Available as: PDF (225 kB).

Vanhanen, Jari, Lassenius, Casper, Rautiainen, Kristian. The Visualisation Client Applet - A Tool for Increasing the Visibilty of Product Development. In Proceedings of 6th International Product Development Management Conference, July 1999. Available as: PDF (192 kB).

Jokikyyny, Tony and Lassenius, Casper. Using the Internet to Communicate Software Metrics in a Large Organization. In Proceedings of GlobeCom'99. Available as: PDF (593 kB), Postscript (2.16 MB)

VeTO (2000-2004)

Visuri, K., Hakonen, M., Kela, S., Pihlava, S., Lassenius, C., Paasivaara, M.: Initiation of a globally networked project. A case study. Proceedings of the 3rd IFIP Working Conference Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises. Sesimbra, Portugal, 1-3 May, 2002. (10 p.)

Visuri, K., Paasivaara, M., Sulonen, R.: Globaalisti hajautetun ohjelmistoprojektin käynnistäminen - kokemuksia projektien alkumetreiltä. Projektitoiminta 1/2002.

Lucos (1997-2000)

Rautiainen, Kristian , Nissinen, Maarit, Lassenius, Casper. Improving Multi-Project Management in Two Product Development Organizations. In Proceedings of HICSS'33, January 2000. Available as: PDF (235 kB).

Rautiainen, Kristian, Lassenius, Casper, Nihtilä, Jukka and Sulonen, Reijo. Key Issues in New Product Development Controllability Improvement - Lessons Learned from European High-Tech Industries. In Proceedings of PICMET'99. Available as: PDF (70 kB), Postscript (582 kB).

Lassenius, Casper, Nissinen, Maarit, Rautiainen, Kristian and Sulonen, Reijo. The Interactive Goal Panel: A Methodology for Aligning R&D Activities with Corporate Strategy. In Proceedings of IEMC'98. Available as: PDF (64 kB), Postscript (260 kB).

Martinsuo, Miia and Nissinen, Maarit. Performance and Competence Appraisal in Product Development Teams. Presented at the 5th International Product Development Management Conference, May 25-26 1998, Como, Italy. Available as: PDF (42 kB), Postscript (188 kB).

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Ongoing projects

CORE

CORE project is based on work done in previous Qure project --> see also QURE publications

Linja-aho, M., Nakari, P., Kujala, S. (2005). How to Study the Learnability of Complex Expert Systems- Evaluating a System by Observing Training Sessions. HCI International 2005 Conference, 22-27 July, Las Vegas, Nevada USA.

Lehtola, L., and Kauppinen, M. (2004) Evaluation of Two Requirements Prioritization Methods in Product Development Projects. To be published in proceedings of the European Software Process Improvement Conference (EuroSPI 2004), 10-12 November, Trondheim, Norway.

Kauppinen, M., Vartiainen, M., Kontio, J., Kujala, S., and Sulonen, R. (2004). Implementing Requirements Engineering Processes throughout Organizations: Success Factors and Challenges, Journal of Information and Software Technology, 46, 14, pp. 937-953.

Kujala, S. and Kauppinen, M. (2004). Identifying and Selecting Users for User-Centered Design. In Proceedings of Nordic Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (Tampere, Finland, 25-27 October).

Kontio, J., Lehtola, L., and Bragge, J. (2004) Using the Focus Group Method in Software Engineering: Obtaining Practitioner and User Experiences. In proceedings of the ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE 2004), August, Redondo Beach CA, USA.

Lehtola, L., and Forssen, M-K. (2004) Improving RE Decision-Making via Business-Driven Long-Term View of Software Product's Future Development Steps. In proceedings of 6th International Workshop on Economics-Driven Software Engineering Research (EDSER-6) at ICSE 2004, May 24 - 25,
Edinburgh, Scotland.

Lehtola, L., Kauppinen, M., and Kujala, S. (2004) Requirements Prioritization Challenges in Practice. In proceedings of 5th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement, April 5 - 8, Kansai Science City, Japan, pp. 497-508.

Lehtola, L. (2003) Käyttäjä- ja asiakasvaatimusten priorisointi: Priorisointikäytännöt todellisessa tuotekehitysympäristössä. Master`s Thesis, HUT / Departure of Electrics and Communication Engineering, 2003. Available as: PDF

Kujala, S., Kauppinen, M., Nakari, P., Rekola, S. (2003). Field Studies in Practice: Making it Happen. In Proceedings of Interact 2003 Conference (Zürich, Switzerland, 1-5 September), IOS Press, pp. 359-366.

Kujala, S. (2003). User involvement: a review of the benefits and challenges. Behaviour & Information Technology, 22, 1, 1-16.

Completed projects

ProDoku

Paasivaara, M. (2002) Prosessin simulointi yritysverkostojen kehittämisen apuna. Teknillinen korkeakoulu, Ohjelmistoliiketoiminnan ja -tuotannon instituutti, ProMuovi-teknologiaohjelman raportti.
Available as: PDF

Paasivaara, M. (2002) Tiedonkulku ja sen kehittäminen muoviyritysverkostossa. Teknillinen korkeakoulu, Ohjelmistoliiketoiminnan ja -tuotannon instituutti, ProMuovi-teknologiaohjelman raportti.
Available as: PDF

Borgman, J. Tuotemuutokset muovikomponentin tuotekehitysprojektissa: niiden vaikutukset muotinvalmistuksen läpimenoaikaan ja hallinnan kehittäminen. 2002.
Available as: PDF

Pitkänen, Kela: Sopimukset ja vastuukysymykset dokumenttienhallinnassa.

Paasivaara, Maria. Communication in Networked Product Development - A Case Study. Licentiate Thesis. Helsinki University of Technology. Software Business and Engineering Institute. 2001.
Available as: PDF

Paasivaara, Maria & Lassenius Casper. Communication in New Product Development Networks - A Case Study. In Proceedings of 8th International Product Development Management Conference, Enschede, The Netherlands, June 11-12, 2001.
Available as: PDF

QURE

Kujala, S. (2002). User Studies: A Practical Approach to User Involvement for Gathering User Needs and Requirements. Acta Polytechnica Scandinavica, Mathematics and Computing Series No. 116. Espoo: the Finnish Academies of Technology. ISBN 951-666-599-3. A summary is available here .

Kauppinen, M., Kujala, S., Aaltio, T., and Lehtola, L., (2002) Introducing Requirements Engineering: How to Make a Cultural Change Happen in Practice, Proceedings of the IEEE Joint International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE' 02), Essen, Germany, pp. 43-51.

Kauppinen, M., Aaltio, T., and Kujala, S., (2002), Lessons Learned from Applying the Requirements Engineering Good Practice Guide for Process Improvement, Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference on Software Quality (QC2002), Helsinki, Finland, pp. 73-81. )

Kujala, S., Kauppinen, M., and Rekola, S. (2001). Bridging the Gap between User Needs and User Requirements. In Avouris, N. and Fakotakis, N. (Eds.) Advances in Human-Computer Interaction I (Proceedings of the Panhellenic Conference with International Participation in Human-Computer Interaction PC-HCI 2001), Typorama Publications, pp. 45-50. Available as: PDF.

Kauppinen, M., and Kujala, S., (2001), Starting Improvement of Requirements Engineering Processes: An Experience Report, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (Profes2001), Kaiserslautern, Germany, pp. 196-209.

Kujala, S., Kauppinen, M. & Rekola, S. (2001). Introducing User Needs Gathering to Product Development: Increasing Innovation and Customer Satisfaction. In Hirose, M. (Eds.), Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT '01 (Proceedings of Interact 2001 Conference), IOS Press, pp. 856-861.

Kauppinen, M., and Kujala, S., (2001), Assessing Requirements Engineering Processes with the REAIMS Model: Lessons Learned , Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE2001), Melbourne, Australia. (7 pages in the electronic proceedings).

Leino, Virve, (2001), Documenting Requirements Traceability Information: A Case Study.  Master`s Thesis, HUT / Departure of Computer Science and Engineering, 2001. Available as: PDF

Hurri, Jarmo, (2000)  Using decision tools in deciding system product requirements: literature review and a behaviourally motivated lightweight tool Licentiate Thesis, HUT / Tietotekniikan osasto, 2000. Available as: PDF

Kujala, S. & Mäntylä, M. (2000). Studying Users for Developing Usable and Useful Products. In Gulliksen, J., Oestreicher, L., Severinson Eklundh, K. (Eds.), NordiCHI2000, Design versus Design (Proceedings of 1st Nordic Conference on Computer-Human Interaction), pp. 1-11. Available as: PDF

Kujala, S. & Mäntylä, M. (2000). How Effective Are User Studies? In McDonald, S., Waern, Y., & Cockton, G. (Eds.), People and Computers XIV (Proceedings of HCI 2000 Conference), Springer-Verlag, pp. 61-71.

Kujala, S. & Mäntylä, M. (2000), Is User Involvement Harmful or Useful in the Early Stages of Product Development?, Companion Proceedings of CHI'2000, (The Hague, The Netherlands. 1-6 April), pp. 285-286.

Kujala, S. (2000). Käyttäjätutkimukset hyödyllisten ja käytettävien tuotteiden suunnittelussa. In Eero Pantzar (Ed.) Informaatio, tieto ja yhteiskunta. Suomen Akatemian Tiedon tutkimusohjelman raportteja 4. 2000. Tampereen yliopisto. Tietoyhteiskunnan tutkimuskeskus, pp. 215-221.

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Informations Systems and Service Engineering Group (ISSEG)

Paavo Kotinurmi, Armin Haller, Eyal Oren. (2008) Ontologically enhanced RosettaNet B2B integration. In Roberto García González (ed.), Semantic Web Methodologies for E-Business Applications: Ontologies, Processes and Management Practices. IGI Global, 2008.

Haller, A., Gontarczyk, J., & Kotinurmi, P. (2008). Towards a complete SCM Ontology - The Case of ontologising RosettaNet. In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM symposium on applied computing (SAC). Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, March 2008,  pp 1467-1473.

Vitvar, Tomas; Moran, Matthew; Zaremba, Maciej; Haller, Armin; Kotinurmi, Paavo; Semantic SOA to Promote Integration of Heterogeneous B2B Services,  The 9th IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology and the 4th IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce, and E-Services, 2007. 23-26 July 2007, pp. 451 - 456 .

Haller, A, Kotinurmi, P, Vitvar, T and Oren, E. Handling heterogeneity in RosettaNet messages. 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Seoul, Korea, 2007.

Thomas Haselwanter, Paavo Kotinurmi, Matthew Moran, Tomas Vitvar, Maciej Zaremba WSMX: a Semantic Service Oriented Middleware for B2B Integration. In proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, Springer-Verlag LNCS Chicago, USA, 2006.

Paavo Kotinurmi and Armin Haller. RosettaNet and Semantic Web Services. In Proceedings of the Finnish Artificial Intelligence Days Espoo, Finland, 2006.

Kotinurmi, P, Vitvar, T, Haller, A, Richardson, R and Boran, A.Semantic Web Services enabled B2B Integration. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce and Services, in conjunction with IEEE CEC2006 and EEE2006. San Francisco, California, 2006.

Haller, A, Oren, E and Kotinurmi, P. m3po: An ontology to Relate Choreography Models to Workflow Models. International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2006). Chicago, Illinois, 2006.

Haselwanter, T., Kotinurmi, P. Moran, M., Vitvar, T. and Zaremba, M. Dynamic B2B Integration on the Semantic Web Services. Proceedings of the Semantic Web Service Challenge Workshop - Phase II, in conjunction with ESWC2006. Budva, Montenegro, 2006.

Kotinurmi, P and Vitvar, T. Adding Semantics to RosettaNet Specifications. Proceedings of the 15th International World Wide Web Conference, special interest track and posters. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 2006.

Haller, A, Oren, E and Kotinurmi, P. An Ontology for Internal and External Business Processes. Proceedings of the 15th International World Wide Web Conference - Special interest tracks and posters. Edinburgh, Scotland, 2006.

Nurmilaakso, J. M., Kotinurmi, P. and Laesvuori, H. XML-based E-business Frameworks and Standardization. Computer Standards & Interfaces, Vol. 28, No. 5, (2006), pp. 585-599.

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Product Data Management Group (PDMG)

NetSetup

Laesvuori, H., Kotinurmi, P. and Jokinen, K.Supporting Networked Product Development with Business-to-Business Integration. Recognizing a New Phase in the Integration Implementation. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, Setubal, Portugal, April 11-13, 2006.

Borgman, J. Salpavuori, S. Sulonen R. Improving engineering change management in a supply-chain network In the proceedings of the 12th international product development management conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 12-14, 2005

Tikkala, J., Kotinurmi, P. and Soininen, T. Implementing a Rosettanet Business-To-Business Integration Platform Using J2EE and Web Services, 7th International IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology 2005.

Jokinen, K., Borgman, J. and Sulonen R. Common Data Model for Design Document Exchange in Business-to-Business Networks. In Proceedings of the 38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 3-6, 2005

Laesvuori, H and Kotinurmi, P. Towards Integrated Document Management in Networked Product Development. In Proceedings of International Conference on Electronic Business, Beijing, China, December 5-9, 2004.

Nurmilaakso, J.M and Kotinurmi, P. A review of XML-based supply-chain integration. In Production Planning & Control, Volume 15, Number 6, September 2004, pp. 608 - 621.

Jokinen, K., Borgman, J. Sulonen, R. Support for Managing Design Document Exchange in Business-to-Business Networks. Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Seville, Spain, 14-16 June 2004.

NetData

Kotinurmi, P., Laesvuori, H., Jokinen, K. and Soininen, T. Integrating Design Document Management Systems using the RosettaNet E-business Framework In Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Porto, Portugal, April 14-17, 2004. Volume 4, pages 502-509.

Salpavuori, Sami. Effects of Design revisions to Networked Customer-oriented Design and Manufacturing Process: An Empirical Case Study in the Finnish Heavy Machinery Industry. Master's Thesis. Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Degree Programme of Information Networks, 2004.

Paavo Kotinurmi, Juha-Miikka Nurmilaakso and Hannu Laesvuori. Standardization of XML-based E-business Frameworks. MISQ Special Issue Workshop: Standard Making: A Critical Research Frontier for Information Systems, 2003. Available as PDF

Laesvuori, Hannu. RosettaNet Implementation using Microsoft BizTalk with Emphasis on Exception Handling. Helsinki University of Technology, 2003.

Jokinen, Katrine. A Standard Data Model for Product Development Documents. B2B Integration of Document Management Systems Using RosettaNet. Master's Thesis. Helsinki School of Economics, Department of Management, 2003. Available as PDF

Borgman, J. and Sulonen, R., A case study of the Impacts of Preliminary Design Data Exchange on Networked Product Development Project , In Proceedings of International Conference on Engineering Design, Stockholm, August 19-21, 2003.

Paavo Kotinurmi, Jukka Borgman and Timo Soininen, Design Document Management in Networked Product Development Using Standard Frameworks, In Proceedings of International Conference on Engineering Design, Stockholm, August 19-21, 2003.

Kotinurmi, Paavo. Comparing XML-based B2B frameworks, XML Finland 2002, Helsinki, Finland, October 2002. (XML Finland 2002 Proceedings PDF)

 

Software Product Families

 

Asikainen, T. A Conceptual Modelling Approach to Software Variability. Doctoral dissertation, Helsinki University of Technology, 2008. Link

Asikainen, T, Männistö, T. Nivel: A metamodelling language with a formal semantics. Software and Systems Modeling, accepted for publication.

H. Koivu, A Tool for Modelling Software Product Families - User-Centred Prototype Implementation. Master's thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2007. Available as: PDF

Myllärniemi, V., Raatikainen, M. and Männistö, T. KumbangSec: An Approach for Modelling Functional and Security Variability in Software Architectures. Proc. of the 1st International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems (VaMoS), 2007. Available as: PDFLero)

Asikainen, T., Männistö, T., Soininen, T. Kumbang: A Domain Ontology for Modelling Variability in Software Product Families. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 21(1), 2007, pp. 23-40. Link

Asikainen, T., Männistö, T., Soininen, T. A Unified Conceptual Foundation for Feature Modelling. In: Proceedings of the 10th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2006), 2006. Link

Asikainen, T. Methods for Modelling the Variability in Software Product Families. In: Proceedings of Software Product Lines Doctoral Symposium, in conjunction with the 10th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2006), 2006. Available as: PDF

Myllärniemi, Männistö, T. and Raatikainen, M. Quality Attribute Variability within a Software Product Family Architecture. Short paper in the Second International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures (QoSA), 2006. Available as: PDF

Myllärniemi, V., Raatikainen, M. and Männistö. Inter-Organisational Approach in Rapid Software Product Family Development - A Case Study. Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR), 2006.

Myllärniemi, V., Asikainen, T., Männistö, T. and Soininen, T. Kumbang Configurator - A Configuration Tool for Software Product Families. Presented at the IJCAI-05 Configuration workshop, 2005. Available as: PDF

Raatikainen, M., Soininen, T., Männistö, T., Mattila, A.: Characterizing configurable software product families and their derivation. Software Process: Improvement and Practice Volume 10, Issue 1, 2005. Pages: 41-60. Special Issue on Software Variability: Process and Management. Quest editor Jan Bosch.

Myllärniemi, V. Kumbang Configurator - A Tool for Configuring Software Product Families. Master's Thesis. Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2005. Available as: PDF.

Raatikainen, M., Soininen, T., Männistö, T.: A. Case study questions for studying industrial software product families, HUT-SoberIT-C10. Available as: PDF.

Raatikainen, M., Männistö, T., Soininen, T.: CASFIS—Approach for studying software product families in industry, 2nd Groningen Workshop on Software Variability Management: Software Product Families and Populations, 2004. Available as: PDF.

Asikainen, T. and Männistö, T. (eds.): Sarcous final report, ISBN 951-22-7354-3, HUT-SoberIT-C9.

Asikainen, T. Modelling Methods for Managing Variability of Configurable Software Product Families. Licentiate thesis. Helsinki University of Technology, Deparment of Computer Science and Engineering, 2004. Available as PDF: Summary, original publications I, II, III, IV ( Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3014, © Springer-Verlag), V.  

Männistö, T and Bosch, J. (eds.) Software Variability Management for Product Derivation - Towards Tool Support, International Workshop of SPLC 2004, Boston, MA, USA, August 2004, Proceedings.

Myllärniemi, V., Asikainen, T., Männistö, T. and Soininen, T. Tool for Configuring Product Individuals from Configurable Software Product Families. In: Software Variability Management for Product Derivation - Towards Tool Support, International Workshop of SPLC 2004, Boston, MA, USA, August 2004, Proceedings, Tomi Männistö and Jan Bosch (eds.), pp. 106-109. Technical Report HUT-SoberIT-C6, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland. Available as: PDF.

Asikainen, T., Männistö, T., and Soininen, T. Using a Configurator for Modelling and Configuring Software Product Lines Based on Feature Models. In: Software Variability Management for Product Derivation - Towards Tool Support, International Workshop of SPLC 2004, Boston, MA, USA, August 2004, Proceedings, Tomi Männistö and Jan Bosch (eds.), pp. 24-35. Technical Report HUT-SoberIT-C6, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland. Available as: PDF.

Asikainen, T., Männistö, T., and Soininen, T. Representing Feature Models of Software Product Families Using a Configuration Ontology. Presented at the ECAI 2004 Configuration Workshop. Available as: PDF.

Raatikainen, M., Soininen T., Männistö, T. and Mattila A. A Case Study of Two Configurable Software Product Families. In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Product Family Engineering (PFE-5), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3014, 2004. Available as: PDF. © Springer-Verlag.

Asikainen, T., Soininen, T. and Männistö, T. A Koala-Based Approach for Modelling and Deploying Configurable Software Product Families. In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Product Family Engineering (PFE-5), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3014, 2004. Available as: PDF. © Springer-Verlag.

Asikainen, T., Soininen, T. and Männistö, T. A Koala-Based Ontology for Configurable Software Product Families. Presented at the IJCAI 2003 Configuration workshop, August 11, Acapulco, Mexico, 2003. Available as: PDF

Kojo, T., Männistö, T. and Soininen, T., Towards Intelligent Support for Managing Evolution of Configurable Software Product Families. In Software Configuration Management (ICSE Workshops SCM 2001 and SCM 2003 Selected Papers), ed. Westfechtel, B. and van der Hoek, A., pp. 86-101. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2649. Springer-Verlag, 2003. Available as: PDF

Raatikainen, M. A Research Instrument for an Empirical Study of Software Product Families. Master's Thesis. Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2003. Available as: PDF

Asikainen, T., Soininen, T. and Männistö, T. Towards Managing Variability Using Software Product Family Architecture Models and Product Configurators. In Software Variability Management Workshop, February 13-14, Groningen, The Netherlands, 2003, proceedings, eds. Jilles van Gurp and Jan Bosch, pp. 84-93, IWI preprint 2003-07-01, Research Institute of Mathematics and Computing Science (IWI), University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 2003. Available as: PDF

Asikainen, T., Soininen, T. and Männistö, T. Representing Software Product Family Architectures Using a Configuration Ontology. Presented at the ECAI 2002 Configuration Workshop, July 22-23, Lyon, France, 2002. Available as: PDF

Asikainen, T. Representing Software Product Line Architectures Using a Configuration Ontology. Master's thesis. Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, 2002. Available as: PDF

Ylinen, K., Männistö, T. and Soininen, T. Configuring Software with Traditional Methods - Case Linux Familiar. Presented at the ECAI 2002 Configuration Workshop, July 22-23, Lyon, France, 2002. Available as: PDF

Männistö, T., Soininen, T. and Sulonen, R. Modelling Configurable Products and Software Product Families. Presented at the IJCAI '01 Workshop on Configuration, Seattle, USA, August 6, 2001.)

Männistö, T., Soininen, T. and Sulonen, R. Product Configuration View to Software Product Families. At the Tenth International Workshop on Software Configuration Management (SCM-10) held at ICSE 2001, May 14-15, 2001, Toronto, Canada.

Männisto, T., Soininen, T. and Sulonen, R. Configurable Software Product Families. Presented at the ECAI 2000 ConfigurationWorksh op, Berlin, Germany, 2000.

 

 

Product and Service Configuration

Tiihonen, Juha; Heiskala Mikko; Anderson Andreas; Soininen Timo
WeCoTin – A practical logic-based sales configurator.
AI Communications, 2013. Vol. 26, nro 1, p. 99-131. Download pdf
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Zanker Markus and Tiihonen Juha. Configuration and Recommender Systems: Two Converging Research Fields (Conference Report: ECAI 2008 Workshops on Configuration and Recommender Systems). The IEEE Intelligent Informatics Bulletin, 2008, Vol 9 No 1 (November), pp 3-4. ISSN 1727-5997 (printed), 1727-6004 (on-line)

Juha Tiihonen and Alexander Felfernig. Towards Recommending Configurable Offerings. Proceedings of the ECAI 2008 Workshop on Configuration Systems, pp. 29-34, July 21 – 22, 2008, Patras, Greece, ISBN 978-960-6843-01-3. Proceedings:

Tiihonen, Juha; Heiskala, Mikko; Paloheimo, Kaija-Stiina; Anderson, Andreas. Applying the Configuration Paradigm to Mass-customize Contract Based Services. In Mitchell,William J.;Piller, Frank T.; Tseng, Mitchell;Chin, Ryan; McClanahan, Betty Lou (eds.): Extreme Customization: Proceedings of the MCPC 2007 World Conference on Mass Customization & Personalization. Paper ID MCPC-134-2007, section 7.5.3 on the proceedings CD. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA, October 7-9, 2007.

From ConSerWe project:

Tiihonen J.; Long-Term Management of Configurable Telecommunications Service Offerings: A Case. In Blecker, Thorsten; Edwards, Kasper; Friedrich, Gerhard; Hvam, Lars; Salvador, Fabrizio (Eds.): Innovative Processes and Products for Mass Customization. Proceedings of the Joint Conference IMCM’07 & PETO’07, pp. 379-394, Joint Conference 2007 International Mass Customization Meeting 2007 (IMCM’07) & International Conference on Economic, Technical and Organisational Aspects of Product Configuration Systems (PETO’07), Hamburg, Germany June 21-22, 2007. Gito Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-940019-03-5.

Sarinko, Kati; Tiihonen Juha.; A Documentation Method for Describing Product Variability in Product Development of Two Case Companies. In Blecker, Thorsten; Edwards, Kasper; Friedrich, Gerhard; Hvam, Lars; Salvador, Fabrizio (Eds.): Innovative Processes and Products for Mass Customization. Proceedings of the Joint Conference IMCM’07 & PETO’07, pp. 345-354, Joint Conference 2007 International Mass Customization Meeting 2007 (IMCM’07) & International Conference on Economic, Technical and Organisational Aspects of Product Configuration Systems (PETO’07), Hamburg, Germany June 21-22, 2007. Gito Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-940019-03-5.

Heiskala, M., Tiihonen, J, Paloheimo,K-S. Anderson, A; Mass Customization with Configurable Products and Configurators: A Review of Benefits and Challenges , in Blecker T., Friedrich G. (eds); Mass Customization Information Systems in Business, 2007. The book in amazon.com

Talja T.; Neljän maailman malli sopivan palvelun löytämistä tukevassa käyttöliittymässä, Pro Gradu tutkielma, Helsingin yliopisto, tietojenkäsittelytieteen laitos, 2007.

Tiihonen, J, Heiskala, M., Paloheimo,K-S., Anderson, A; Configuration of Contract Based Services (PDF), In Proceedings of the ECAI 2006 Workshop on Configuration, pp. 25-30, August 28-29, 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy

Heiskala, M., Tiihonen, J., Anderson, A. Soininen, T. 2006. Four-Worlds Model for Configurable Services.  In: Blecker, Th., Friedrich, G. Hvam, L. & Edwards, K. (Eds.): Customer Interaction and Customer Integration. Proceedings of the Joint Conference IMCM'06 & PETO'06, June 22 - 23, 2006, Hamburg/Germany.

Heiskala, M. Paloheimo, K-S., Tiihonen, J. Mass Customization of Services: Benefits and Challenges of Configurable Services, Frontiers of e-Business Research (FeBR) 2005. Conference proceedings of eBRF, 26.-28.9.2005, Tampere, Finland. PDF

Heiskala, M., Tiihonen, J., Soininen, T. A Conceptual Model for Configurable Services, Presented at the IJCAI 2005 Workshop on Configuration, July 30, Edinburgh, Scotland. Available as: PDF

Anderson A, Towards Tool-Supported Configuration of Services  , Master's Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, December 2005.

Heiskala, M. A Conceptual Model for Modeling Configurable Services from a Customer Perspective, Master's Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Electrical and Communications Engineerings, June 2005. Available as: PDF

Paloheimo, K.-S. 2004 (HUT HCL publication, ConSerWe result). Exploring the quality of relationships: Case study on expectations of and experiences from process industry. 8th Internaional Seminar in Service Management, La Londe les Maures, July 8-11, 2004. Puyricard, France: IAE Aix-en-Provence, pp. 603-618.

Drafts for Product Configuration

Heiskala M., Paloheimo K-S., Tiihonen J, Anderson A., Sarinko K, Soininen T.; Towards configurable services - a review of systematic service mass customization. Accepted with minor revisions, TKK/SoberIT technical report.

Presentations for Product Configuration

Configurable Services on the Web: Results and insights. Contains selected results of previous ConSerWe project.

Advanced IT support for configuring services: principles and demonstration. Contains overview of configuring services with regular configurators and 4 worlds model.

Boost your service business with mass-customization.31.1.2007 Program of seminar , with downloadable materials including project results

 

Publications for Product Configuration, continuing

Heiskala, M., Tiihonen, J, Paloheimo,K-S. Anderson, A; Mass Customization with Configurable Products and Configurators: A Review of Benefits and Challenges, in Blecker T., Friedrich G. (eds); Mass Customization Information Systems in Business, 2007 (accepted, to appear). The book in amazon.com

Tiihonen, J, Heiskala, M., Paloheimo,K-S., Anderson, A; Configuration of Contract Based Services, In Proceedings of the ECAI 2006 Workshop on Configuration, pp. 25-30, August 28-29, 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy

Heiskala, M., Tiihonen, J., Anderson, A. Soininen, T. 2006. Four-Worlds Model for Configurable Services. In: Blecker, Th., Friedrich, G. Hvam, L. & Edwards, K. (Eds.): Customer Interaction and Customer Integration. Proceedings of the Joint Conference IMCM'06 & PETO'06, June 22 - 23, 2006, Hamburg/Germany.

Heiskala, M. Paloheimo, K-S., Tiihonen, J. Mass Customization of Services: Benefits and Challenges of Configurable Services, Frontiers of e-Business Research (FeBR) 2005. Conference proceedings of eBRF, 26.-28.9.2005, Tampere, Finland. PDF

Heiskala, M., Tiihonen, J., Soininen, T. A Conceptual Model for Configurable Services, Presented at the IJCAI 2005 Workshop on Configuration, July 30, Edinburgh, Scotland. Available as: PDF

Anderson A, Towards Tool-Supported Configuration of Services, Master's Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, December 2005.

Heiskala, M. A Conceptual Model for Modeling Configurable Services from a Customer Perspective, Master's Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Electrical and Communications Engineerings, June 2005. Available as: PDF

Paloheimo, K.-S. 2004 (HUT HCL publication, ConSerWe result). Exploring the quality of relationships: Case study on expectations of and experiences from process industry. 8th Internaional Seminar in Service Management, La Londe les Maures, July 8-11, 2004. Puyricard, France: IAE Aix-en-Provence, pp. 603-618.

Sarinko, K., Martio, A. and Huuskonen, T., "An Initial Empirical Study of Using a Product Configurator as a Support Tool for Developing Product Families", International Design Conference, Design 2004, Dubrovnik, May 18-20, 2004.

Soininen, T. and Stumptner, M. Guest Editorial. Special Issue on Configuration of the AI EDAM (Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing) Journal, Vol. 17(1). 2003.

Tiihonen, J., Soininen, T., Niemelä, I., and Sulonen R. A Practical Tool for Mass-Customising Configurable Products. In Proceedings of International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 03), Stockholm, August 19-21, 2003, Executive summary pp. 243-244, full paper on proceedings CD-ROM, paper number 1290.

Heiskala, M., Anderson, A., Huhtinen, V., Tiihonen, J., and Martio, A. A Tool for Comparing Configurable Products. Presented at the IJCAI 2003 Workshop on Configuration August 11, Acapulco, Mexico, 2003.

Tiihonen, J., Soininen, T., Niemelä, I., and Sulonen R. Empirical Testing of a Weight Constraint Rule Based Configurator. Presented at the ECAI 2002 Configuration Workshop, July 22-23, Lyon, France, 2002. Additional information and the used empirical test material is available here.

P. Simons, I. Niemelä, and T. Soininen. Extending and implementing the stable model semantics. Artificial Intelligence, 138(1-2):181-234, 2002.

Soininen, T., Niemelä, I., Tiihonen, J. and Sulonen, R. Representing Configurati on Knowledge With Weight Constraint Rules. Published in Proceedings of the AAAI Spring 2001 Symposium on Answer Set Programming: Towards Efficient and Scalable Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Stanford, USA, March 26-28, 2001.

Soininen, T. An Approach to Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Product Configuration Tasks.  Ph.D. thesis. Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2000. Published in Acta Polytechnica Scandinavica, Mathematics and Computing Series. No. 111, Espoo 2000.

Männisto, T. A Conceptual Modelling Approach to Product Families and their Evolution. Ph.D thesis Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2000. Published in Acta Polytechnica Scandinavica, Mathematics and Computing Series. No. 106, Espoo 2000. Summary, paper 1. paper 3, paper 4, paper 5.

Soininen, T., Niemelä, I., Tiihonen, J. and Sulonen, R. Unified Configuration Knowledge Representation Using Weight Constraint Rules.  Presented at the ECAI 2000 Configuration Workshop, Berlin, Germany, 2000. Also available as Technical Report TKO-B149, Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Information Processing Science, Espoo, Finland, 2000.

Niemelä, I., Simons, P. and Soininen, T. Stable Model Semantics for Weight Constraint Rules. In Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning 5th International Conference, LPNMR '99, Proceedings, ed. Gelfond, M., Leone, N. and Pfeifer, G., pp. 317-331. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1730. Springer-Verlag, 1999.

Sarinko, K. Mass Customization, Configuration and Modularization of Customer Specific Products. Master's Thesis. Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1999. In Finnish.

Tiihonen, J.  National Product Configuration Survey -- Customer Specific Adaptation in the Finnish Industry. Licentiate Thesis. Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Laboratory of Information Processing Science, 1999. In Finnish.

Männistö, T. and Sulonen, R. Evolution of Schema and Individuals of Configurable Products. Presented in the ECDM’99 (Evolution and Change in Data Management) Workshop and published in Advances in Conceptual Modeling. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1727. Springer-Verlag, 1999.

Soininen, T., Gelle, E. and Niemelä, I. A Fixpoint Definition of Dynamic Constraint Satisfaction. In Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming- CP'99 5th International Conference, CP'99, Proceedings, ed. Jaffar, J., pp. 419-433. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1713. Springer-Verlag, 1999.

Männistö, T., Soininen, T., Tiihonen, J. and Sulonen, R. Framework and Conceptual Model for Reconfiguration. In Configuration Papers from the AAAI Workshop, pp. 59-64. AAAI Tec hnical Report WS-99-05. AAAI Press, 1999.

Soininen, T. and Gelle, E. Dynamic Constraint Satisfaction in Configuration. In Configuration Papers from the AAAI Workshop,pp. 95-100. AAAI Technical Report WS-99-05. AAAI Press, 1999.

Tiihonen, J., Lehtonen, T., Soininen, T., Pulkkinen, A., Sulonen, R., and Riitahuhta, A. Modeling configurable product families. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED'99), Vol. 2, ed. Lindemann, U., Birkhofer, H., Meer-kamm, H. and Vajna, S., pp. 1139-1142. Technische Universität München, Konstruktion im Maschinenbau, Garching, Germany, 1999.

Soininen, T. An Approach to Configuration Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Licentiate Thesis. Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Laboratory of Information Processing Science, 1998. Summary.

Soininen, T. and Niemelä, I. Developing a Declarative Rule Language for Applications in Product Configuration. In Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages First International Workshop, PADL'99, Proceedings, ed. Gupta, G., pp. 305-319. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1551. Springer-Verlag, 1999.

Tiihonen, J., Lehtonen, T., Soininen, T., Pulkkinen, A., Sulonen, R., and Riitahuhta, A. Modeling configurable product families. In Proceedings of 4th WDK Workshop on Product Structuring, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, October 22-23, 1998.

Tiihonen, J., Soininen, T., Männistö, T. and Sulonen, R. Configurable products - Lessons learned from the Finnish industry. In Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Engineering Design and Automation (ED&A '98), Integrated Technology Systems, Inc., 1998.

Soininen, T., Tiihonen, J., Männistö, T. and Sulonen, R. Towards a General Ontology of Configuration. In AI EDAM (Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing), Special Issue on Configuration Design, Vol. 12, No. 4,  pages 357-372, 1998.

Soininen, T. and Niemelä, I. Formalizing Configurati on Knowledge Using Rules with Choices. Presented at the Seventh International Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning (NM'98), special workshop on Formal Aspects and Applications of Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Trento, Italy, May 30 - June 1, 1998. Also available as Technical Report TKO-B142, Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Information Processing Science, Espoo, Finland, 1998.

Peltonen, H., Männistö, T., Soininen, T., Tiihonen, J., Martio, A. and Sulonen, R. Concepts for Modelling Configurable Products. In Proceedings of European Conference Product Data Technology Days 1998, pages 189-196. Quality Marketing Services, Sandhurst, UK.

Männistö, T. Towards Management of Evolution in Product Configuration Models. Licentiate Thesis. Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Laboratory of Information Processing Science. 1998.
Online: abstract (PDF, 40K), Summary part of thesis (PDF, 430 K), Summary part of thesis (PostScript, WinZipped, 2400 K!)

Juha Tiihonen and Timo Soininen. Product Configurators -- Information System Support for Configurable Products. Technical Report TKO-B137, Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Information Processing Science, 1997. Also published in Using Information Technology During the Sales Visit, Hewson Consulting Group, 1997.
Online: abstract (PostScript), article (PostScript), article (PDF)

Timo Soininen ja Juha Tiihonen. Konfiguroitavat tuotteet — Suomalaisen teollisuuden ongelma vai kilpailuetu? Suomen Tuotannonohjausyhdistyksen (STO) jäsenlehti, helmikuu/1997 (in Finnish only, sorry). Online: abstrakti (PostScript), artikkeli (PostScript)

Tomi Männistö, Hannu Peltonen, and Reijo Sulonen. View to product configuration knowledge modelling and evolution. In Boi Faltings and Eugene Freuder, editors, Configuration—Papers from the 1996 AAAI Fall Symposium, pages 111--118. AAAI Press, 1996. The American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Technical Report FS-96-03.

Juha Tiihonen, Timo Soininen, Tomi Männistö, and Reijo Sulonen. State-of-the-practice in product configuration—a survey of 10 cases in the Finnish industry. In T. Tomiyama, M. Mäntylä, and S. Finger, editors, Knowledge Intensive CAD, volume 1, pages 95--114. Chapman & Hall, 1996.
Online: abstract, kicabstr.ps

(PostScript, A4, 23K), full paper, kic1.ps (PostScript, A4, 721K)

Timo Soininen. Product configuration knowledge: Case study and general model. Master’s thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, 1996.
Online: abstract (PostScript),  ; thesis (PostScript, zipped)

Tiihonen, J., Männisto, T., Peltonen, H. and Sulonen, R. Selection tables in engineering design. In KARP-95 Second International Symposium on Knowledge Acquisition, Representation and Processing, pages 118-20. Auburn Univ, Auburn, AL, USA, 1995.

Tomi Männistö, Hannu Peltonen, and Reijo Sulonen. Open data modelling issues in product configuration. Technical Report TKO-B127, Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Information Processing Science, 1995.

Juha Tiihonen. Computer-assisted elevator configuration. Master’s thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, 1994.

Hannu Peltonen, Tomi Männistö, Kari Alho, and Reijo Sulonen. Product configurations—an application for prototype object approach. In Mario Tokoro and Remo Pareschi, editors, Object Oriented Programming, 8th European Conference, ECOOP’94, pages 513--534. Springer-Verlag, 1994.
Other online formats: ECOOP94_paper.ps.Z (PostScript, Unix Compressed, 60K), ECOOP94_paper.ps (PostScript, Not Compressed, 150K)

Tomi Männistö, Hannu Peltonen, Kari Alho, and Reijo Sulonen. A framework for long term information management of product configurations. Technical Report TKO-B105, Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Information Processing Science, 1993.

Hannu Peltonen, Tomi Männistö, Reijo Sulonen, and Kari Alho. An object model for evolutionary configuration management. Technical Report TKO-B93, Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Information Processing Science, 1993.

Engineering Document Management

Hannu Peltonen, Olli Pitkänen, and Reijo Sulonen. Process-based view of product data management. Computers in Industry, 31(3):195--203, 1996.

Olli Pitkänen. Teollisuuden dokumenttienhallinta. Master’s thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, 1994. In Finnish.

Hannu Peltonen, Tomi Männistö, Kari Alho, and Reijo Sulonen. An engineering document management system. Paper 93-WA/EDA-1 at the Winter Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1993.
Online: PostScript (181 kb), PostScript, compressed with gzip (53 kb)

Hannu Peltonen, Kari Alho, Tomi Männistö, and Reijo Sulonen. An authorization mechanism for a document database. In Peggy Bocks and Biren Prasad, editors, Proceedings of the 1994 ASME Database Symposium, pages 137--143. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1994.
Online: PostScript (111 kb), PostScript, compressed with gzip (33 kb)

Hannu Peltonen. EDMS engineering data management system—architecture and concepts. Technical Report TKO-C59, Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Information Processing Science, 1993.
Online: PostScript (281 kb), PostScript, compressed with gzip (75 kb)

Kari Alho. EDMS engineering data management system—user’s reference. Technical Report TKO-C58, Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Information Processing Science, 1993.

Hannu Peltonen. EDMS engineering data management system—administrator’s guide. Technical Report TKO-C60, Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Information Processing Science, 1993.

Product Data Management in General

Juha-Miikka Nurmilaakso, Paavo Kotinurmi, Hannu Laesvuori: XML-based E-business Frameworks and Standardization. Computer Standards & Interfaces, Vol. 28, No. 5, (2006), pp. 585-599.

Juha-Miikka Nurmilaakso, Paavo Kotinurmi: A Review of XML-based Supply-chain Integration. Production Planning & Control, Vol. 15, No. 6, (2004), pp. 608-621.

Juha-Miikka Nurmilaakso: XML-based Supply Chain Integration: A Review and a Case Study. Licentiate Thesis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Software Business and Engineering Institute, 2003. Available as PDF

Hannu Peltonen, Asko Martio and Reijo Sulonen. PDM - tuotetiedon hallinta. IT Press 2002. In Finnish.

Juha-Miikka Nurmilaakso, Jari Kettunen, Ilkka Seilonen: XML-based Supply Chain Integration: A Case Study. Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 13, No. 8,  (2002), pp.586-595.

Männistö, T. A Conceptual Modelling Approach to Product Families and their Evolution.  Ph.D. thesis. Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2000. Published in Acta Polytechnica Scandinavica, Mathematics and Computing Series. No. 106, Espoo 2000.

Tomi Männistö, Hannu Peltonen, Timo Soininen and Reijo Sulonen. Multiple abstraction levels in modelling product structures. Data and Knowledge Engineering, Volume 36, Issue 1 (2001), pp. 55-78.  [Abstract] [Full text ]

Peltonen, H. Concepts and an Implementation for Product Data Management. Ph.D. thesis. Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2000. Published in Acta Polytechnica Scandinavica, Mathematics and Computing Series. No. 105, Espoo 2000

Kim Gunell. A Classification Model for a Product Data Management System.  Master's Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, 1999.

Riku Jalonen. Tuotetiedon hallinnan nykytilan kartoitusmenetelmä. Master’s thesis, Tampere University of Technology, 1999. In Finnish.

Männistö T., Peltonen, H., Martio, A. and Sulonen, R. Modelling generic product structures in STEP. Computer-Aided Design. 30(14):1111--1118, 1998.

Kari Alho, Hannu Peltonen, Tomi Männistö, and Reijo Sulonen. An approach for supporting inter-application consistency. In Proc. of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE). IEEE, 1993.

Hannu Peltonen, Kari Alho, and Reijo Sulonen. A framework for an engineering data management system. In Guy Doumeingts, Jim Browne, and Marco Tomljanovich, editors, Computer Applications in Production and Engineering: Integration Aspects, pages 505--512. IFIP, Elsevier Science Publihers B.V. (North-Holland), September 1991.

Miscellaneous old projects' publications

Juha-Miikka Nurmilaakso: Supply Chain Scheduling Using Distributed Parallel Simulation. Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Vol. 15, No. 8, (2004), pp. 756-770.

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