From 29^th February to 3^rd March 2004 held the "4^th Workshop Information Systems in Mass Customization" on Madeira (Portugal).

The organized workshop by the chair of Prof. Dr. Klaus Turowski offered participants a comprehend topic spectrum around Information Systems supporting customer individual Mass Customization.

Topics of the event were amongst others:

• Mass Customization Concepts
• Case studies around Mass Customization
• Product configurator for Mass Customization
• Ad-hoc generation of product data, ad-hoc planning
• IT Support for cross company communication and coordination
• Web-based technologies, XML, XML/EDI, E-Commerce appendages
• Supply Chain Management
• Value added networks
• Multi-Agents Systems