Title
Formalizing interactive staged feature model configuration.
Abstract
Feature modeling an attractive technique for capturing commonality as well as variability within an application domain for generative programming and software product line engineering. Feature models symbolize an overarching representation of the possible application configuration space, and can hence be customized based on specific domain requirements and stakeholder goals. Most interactive or semi-automated feature model customization processes neglect the need to have a holistic approach towards the integration and satisfaction of the stakeholder's soft and hard constraints, and the application-domain integrity constraints. In this paper, we will show how the structure and constraints of a feature model can be modeled uniformly through Propositional Logic extended with concrete domains, called P(N). Furthermore, we formalize the representation of soft constraints in fuzzy P(N) and explain how semi-automated feature model customization is performed in this setting. The model configuration derivation process that we propose respects the soundness and completeness properties. Copyright (C) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1002/smr.534
JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE-EVOLUTION AND PROCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
feature models,variability,software product lines,soft constraints,logic languages
Data mining,Systems engineering,Computer science,Fuzzy logic,Data integrity,Feature model,Application domain,Software product line,Soundness,Personalization,Configuration space
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
24
4
2047-7473
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
15
0.69
29
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ebrahim Bagheri1118599.20
Tommaso Di Noia21857152.07
Dragan Gasevic31569150.79
Azzurra Ragone451140.86