european journal of operational research

Multi-criteria data analysis and model building using domain knowledge for collaborative product and service creation and evaluation. Mining the Customer’s Voice and Patent Data for Strategic Product Quality Function Deployment. The scope of the issue covers, but is not limited to: This special issue is aimed at receiving the state-of-the-art research and applications, addressing the major challenges and issues of designing, analysing, validating and implementing applications and systems in transdisciplinary engineering. A transdisciplinary approach requires not only technical disciplines to interact, but also interaction with disciplines from social sciences, since information needs to be acquired from user communities and consumers, while also approaches are needed to validate results in these communities and implement them in practice.

A transdisciplinary approach raises the need for concurrent handling of architectural and operational aspects, relations, and parameters in a socio-technical system. It describes a critical and self-reflective scientific methodology that crosses many boundaries of singular scientific disciplines to compose a holistic approach. To deal with such challenges, new approaches such as a transdisciplinary approach are necessary. Furthermore, the involvement of multiple, very different, domains with enhanced ranges of variety require multiple methods to be used. The complexity of problems and challenges scientists are facing in engineering areas has highly increased, while the necessary knowledge and understanding required to tackle these problems has been evolving rapidly.

From the perspectives of computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), concurrent engineering (CE), and product lifecycle management (PLM), to collaborative product creation, manufacturing, and service delivery, transdisciplinary design, analysis, and implementation of advanced systems have drawn strong attention in both theoretical and practical studies in recent years.

European journal of operational research