Industry 4.0 has received inordinate attention from the business as well as research
communities. Along with the development of Industry 4.0 applications and the diversity of …

Sustainability considerations are increasingly important for manufacturing companies
seeking to develop products that meet the needs of society and the environment. The way …

Supplier selection is regarded as the primary goal of supply chain management (SCM)
because it affects its performance, productivity, pleasure, flexibility, and system speed in …

Product evaluation throughout the design process is a fundamental task for product success,
which also helps to reduce design-related costs. Physical prototyping is a common method …

Making decisions require increasingly more sophisticated methods. The Best-Worst method
was developed recently to find a good balance between the amount of information required …

Virtual product presentations that rely on static images and text are often insufficient to
communicate all the information that is necessary to accurately evaluate a product …

Eliciting informative user opinions from online reviews is a key success factor for innovative
product design and development. The unstructured, noisy, and verbose nature of user …

Efficiently harnessing group wisdom in complex decision-making domains is a crucial
endeavor as socio-economic society evolves and real-life problems become increasingly …

The innovation process typically follows a predefined sequence of phases: idea generation,
screening, evaluation/selection, development, and launch/diffusion. This process exhibits a …

Due to fierce competition in the global market, success in product innovation has always
been challenging for most enterprises to be able to stand out in business values and product …