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A Declarative Approach to New Product Development in the Automotive Industry

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Environmental Issues in Automotive Industry

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The chapter aims to present a declarative approach for management of the new product development project portfolio in the automotive industry. A reference model of an automotive company and project portfolio planning is formulated in terms of a constraint satisfaction problem and implemented in constraint programming languages, facilitating the development of a decision support system that seeks a feasible set of alternatives for project portfolio completion. It is especially attractive in the case of a lack of possibility for continuing the baseline schedule, and supports managers in choosing an alternative schedule. As a consequence, project portfolio management is more efficient, the competitiveness of the automotive company increases, and the launch of new vehicle models containing technologies less harmful to the environment is faster. The chapter includes illustrative examples concerning new sustainable trends in the automotive industry.

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The work was supported by the National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic.

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  1. Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Zielona Góra, Licealna 9, 65-417, Zielona Góra, Poland

    Marcin Relich

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  1. Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

    Paulina Golinska

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Relich, M. (2014). A Declarative Approach to New Product Development in the Automotive Industry. In: Golinska, P. (eds) Environmental Issues in Automotive Industry. EcoProduction. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23837-6_2

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