Call for Papers

Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications, An International Journal

Special Issue on

Customer Requirement Management in Product Development

Guest Editors

Roger Jianxin Jiao, Chun-Hsien Chen and Clive Kerr

Customer requirement management has been well recognized as one of the principal factors in product development for achieving success in the marketplace. It has been witnessed an exponentially increasing number of consensus and publications in the field of customer satisfaction and requirement management, as well as many endeavors in industrial applications. This research topic bears a multidisciplinary characteristic involving such fields as business studies, marketing research, psychological studies, human factors, software requirement engineering, and of course engineering design. More recently, the importance of these front-end issues has been catalyzed by enormous e-commerce applications. This special issue is dedicated to recent advances in customer requirement management. While requirement engineering has been studied intensively in the field of software and information systems, the focus of this special issue is given to product development and engineering design of consumer and industrial products. Original papers of both a theoretical and practical nature are welcome, as well as state-of-the-art reviews and discussions of future research directions in the field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• User needs analysis and functional design

• Affective design and human-centered design

• Kansei engineering and Kansei science

• Product positioning and product line/portfolio planning

• Customer preference and customer value assessment

• Customer decision-making and choice models

• Customer behavior and interaction with product attributes

• Mass customization and personalization

• Customer involvement and product definition

• Customer needs elicitation and requirements acquisition

• Product proliferation and variety management

• Customer requirement lifecycle management

• Requirement modeling, language and supporting tools

• New strategies, business models, enabling technologies (e.g., e-commerce, AI, OR, etc.), case studies and industrial best practices.

Authors should follow the Notes for Authors of CERA when preparing their manuscripts for submission: http://www.ceraj.com/author_information_instructions_for_authors.htm.

Please submit papers in electronic form (preferable in Word or PDF) to the guest editors:

Dr. Roger Jianxin Jiao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, jiao@pmail.ntu.edu.sg

Dr. Chun-Hsien Chen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, mchchen@ntu.edu.sg

Dr. Clive Kerr, Cranfield University, UK, c.i.kerr@cranfield.ac.uk

Important deadlines: