TY - GEN
T1 - Deriving variability patterns in software product lines by ontological considerations
AU - Asadi, Mohsen
AU - Gasevic, Dragan
AU - Wand, Yair
AU - Hatala, Marek
PY - 2012/11/8
Y1 - 2012/11/8
N2 - Variability modeling is widely used in software product line engineering to support reusability. Specifically, it is used in the derivation of concrete software products from a reusable solution within a family of products. To help manage variability, several modeling languages have been proposed for representing variability within a family of products. The study and evaluation of languages to model variability has so far focused on practical aspects of such languages. Less attention has been paid to more theoretical approaches to the analysis of variability modeling languages. In developing such approaches it would be of particular interest to explore the ability of variability modeling to represent the information about the real world (application) domain for which the product family is designed. In information systems research, evaluation of expressiveness of conceptual modeling languages has been done based on ontological theories. This paper describes a framework for general analysis of types of variability based on Bunge's ontology and derives a variability framework which is used to evaluate variability modeling languages.
AB - Variability modeling is widely used in software product line engineering to support reusability. Specifically, it is used in the derivation of concrete software products from a reusable solution within a family of products. To help manage variability, several modeling languages have been proposed for representing variability within a family of products. The study and evaluation of languages to model variability has so far focused on practical aspects of such languages. Less attention has been paid to more theoretical approaches to the analysis of variability modeling languages. In developing such approaches it would be of particular interest to explore the ability of variability modeling to represent the information about the real world (application) domain for which the product family is designed. In information systems research, evaluation of expressiveness of conceptual modeling languages has been done based on ontological theories. This paper describes a framework for general analysis of types of variability based on Bunge's ontology and derives a variability framework which is used to evaluate variability modeling languages.
KW - ontological theory
KW - software product lines
KW - Variability modeling
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84868320090&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-34002-4_31
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-34002-4_31
M3 - Conference Paper
AN - SCOPUS:84868320090
SN - 9783642340017
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 397
EP - 408
BT - Conceptual Modeling - 31st International Conference, ER 2012, Proceedings
T2 - 31st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2012
Y2 - 15 October 2012 through 18 October 2012
ER -