Abstract. The notion of feature is heavily used in Software Engineering, especially for software product lines. However, this notion appears to be confusing, mixing various aspects...
Andreas Classen, Patrick Heymans, Pierre-Yves Scho...
In the domain of embedded software systems the increasing complexity of the functionality as well as the increase in variations caused by product lines requires a modular design p...
: We consider a set of programs a family when it pays to look at their common aspects before looking at their differences. For commercial software developers the implications are t...
—For multiclass flow line models, we identify a class of service times that allow a decomposition of the system into subsets of servers called channels. In each channel, the cus...
E-contracts are used to describe the supply and the consumption details of e-services within a business process. The establishment of e-contracts in a given application domain usu...
Marcelo Fantinato, Maria Beatriz Felgar de Toledo,...