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As information technologies gain common adoption in the humanities, cultural heritage study remains a special domain. Fundamentally interdisciplinary, cultural heritage works articulate several specific challenges: incompleteness, close link to documentation and the need for many domain collaborating. Modeling tools and methods have been under vibrant development in the past twenty years. But while a lot of efforts has been put towards overcoming practical issues, ethical and methodological issues nowadays require further advances. The Reseed project aims to bridge some gaps in the digital use for cultural heritage. This paper aims to shed light on the need to embrace heterogeneity with the aim to entrench model contextualized analysis. Currently in the process of developing fitting solutions, we present our partial implementation, which we supplement with more global requirement specifications. We base our proposal on a domain analysis and confine its scope within a critical discussion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mass customization (MC) which was introduced by Davis (Future perfect, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA ) has become a reality; nevertheless not all MC stories had a happy ending. Many companies implementing MC failed while some others succeeded such as National Bicycles Industrial Company of Japan, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Benetton, Chryslers, and Dell. How to determine the best MC strategy to be implemented or even if such a strategy should be adopted? In the literature many methods for implementing MC are found, however none of these propose a structured way for implementing and evaluating such a strategy as a whole, each concentrated on one department or phase of the supply or value chains. We suggest in this paper the use of extended value network modelling and simulation for evaluating an MC strategy, and we describe the modelling language used and the approach which will be applied into shoemaking industries via a European project named DOROTHY. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]