Collaborative contracting for Manufacturing-as-a-Service (MaaS) by information content measurement and decision tree learning

•Related to an emerging trend in Industry 4.0 towards product fulfillment through crowdsourcing.•Formulate contracting decisions in crowdsourcing product fulfillment as a best-matching problem.•An information content measure based decision tree learning of quantitative and qualitative metrics.•Dynamically configure a supply chain with appropriate design and manufacturing capabilities.•A case study of orthodontic brace mass customization through crowdsourcing.