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Ontology-based Approach to Analyzing Commonality and Variability of Features in the Software Product Line Engineering  

Lee, Soon-Bok (고려대학교 컴퓨터학과)
Kim, Jin-Woo (고려대학교 컴퓨터학과)
Song, Chee-Yang (상주대학교 소프트웨어공학과)
Kim, Young-Gab (고려대학교 정보보호대학원)
Kwon, Ju-Hum (공군 중앙전산소)
Lee, Tae-Woong (고려대학교 컴퓨터학과)
Kim, Hyun-Seok (고려대학교 컴퓨터학과)
Baik, Doo-Kwon (고려대학교 컴퓨터학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications / v.34, no.3, 2007 , pp. 196-211 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the Product Line Engineering (PLE), current studies about an analysis of the feature have uncertain and ad-hoc criteria of analysis based on developer’s intuition or domain expert’s heuristic approach and difficulty to extract explicit features from a product in a product line because the stakeholders lack comprehensive understanding of the features in feature modeling. Therefore, this paper proposes a model of the analyzing commonality and variability of the feature based on the Ontology. The proposed model in this paper suggests two approaches in order to solve the problems mentioned above: First, the model explicitly expresses the feature by making an individual feature attribute list based on the meta feature modeling to understand common feature. Second, the model projects an analysis model of commonality and variability using the semantic similarity between features based on the Ontology to the stakeholders. The main contribution of this paper is to improve the reusability of distinguished features on developing products of same line henceforth.
Keywords
Product Line Engineering; eature attribute list; features-Ontology similarity graph(FOSG); mata feature repository (MFR); commonality; variability;
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