• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.196-211
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• 2007

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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10b
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• pp.44-49
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• 2007

새로운 패러다임인 유비쿼터스에 대한 개념이나 적용 기술들에 대해서는 많은 연구가 진행되고 있으나, 이를 고려한 도메인 분석 기법에 대한 연구는 많지 않다. 또한, 범용적으로 사용되고 있는 휘처 기반의 도메인 분석 기법은 공간 재설계나 상황 인지 등의 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅의 대표적인 특징을 수용하는 데에는 한계를 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 #공간 재설계#나 #상황 인지#에 초점을 두고 휘처 개발 방법을 통해 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 서비스의 도메인 분석 방법을 제시한다. 유비쿼터스 환경을 위한 정형화된 유비쿼터스 휘처 메타모델을 제시하고, 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 서비스를 휘처로 표현함으로써 기존의 휘처 모델링 방법에 의한 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 서비스의 모델링 접근을 가능하게 한다. 이로써 유비쿼터스 서비스 도메인 모델의 효과적인 분석을 가능하게 하고 정형화된 휘처 모델을 통한 기존 휘처 모델의 제품 계열 개발에 따른 재사용성을 증진시킬 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.123-136
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• 2013

The Feature model can not be guaranteed the syntactic accuracy of its model and be difficult the validation using automatic tool for its syntax, because this model is expressed by a graphical and informal structure in itself. Therefore, there is a need to formalize and check for the feature model, to precisely define syntax for construct of the model. This paper presents a Z formal specification and a model checking mechanism of the feature model to guarantee the correctness of the model. It first defines the translation rules between feature model and Z, and then converts the syntax of the feature model into the Z schema specification by applying these rules. Finally, the Z schema specification is checked syntax, type, and domain errors using the Z/Eves validation tool to assure the correctness of its specification, With the use of the proposed method, we may express more precisely the construct of the feature model. Moreover the domain analyst are able to usefully verify the errors of the generated feature model.

• Journal of Software Engineering Society
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.31-44
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• 2013

Software product line (SPL) engineering is a reuse paradigm that helps organizations increase productivity and improve product quality by developing product from reusable core assets. In SPL, product configuration is the process of selecting the desired features and feature attributes for a given product from a feature model. In order to develop a successful product, feature and feature attribute selection that can achieve the product goal is important. There can be thousands of features and feature attributes resulting in myriads of configurations and finding the best configuration efficiently is a hard task. This paper proposes a systematic process for feature-based product configuration. To support development of a product that satisfys all product goals(business goals and quality goals), a model showing how feature and feature attribute combinations are related to product goals is included and a method for deriving an optimal product configuration using the model is proposed.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2014

Many companies have tried to adopt Software Product Line Engineering for improving the quality and productivity of information systems and software product. There are several models defined in software product line methodology and each model has different abstraction level. Therefor it is important to maintain the traceability and consistency between models. In this paper, consistency checking rules are suggested by traceability matrix of work products.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.19D no.1
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• pp.81-94
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• 2012

FORM(Feature-Oriented Reuse Method) is one of representative product line engineering methods. The essence of FORM is the FORM architecture models, which can be reused in the development of multiple products of a software product line. The FORM architecture models, however, have the following problems when applied in practice. First, they are not standardized models like UML(Unified Modeling Language) and therefore they can be constructed only through a specific modeling tool. Second, they do not represent architectural variability explicitly. Instead their variability is only managed through a mapping from a feature model. To address these two problems, we developed at first a method for representing the FORM architecture models using UML, which enables the FORM architecture models to be constructed through various available UML modeling tools. Also, we developed an effective method for representing as well as managing the variability of the FORM architecture models through a mapping from a feature model.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.733-744
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• 2016

The legacy methods for converting a business model to a feature model make it difficult to support an automatic transformation due to a dependence on a domain analyzers' intuitions, which hinders the feature oriented development for the integration of feature modeling in business modeling. This paper proposes a method for converting a BPMN business model into a feature model based on syntax. To allow the conversion between the heterogeneous models from BPMN to the FM(Feature Model), it defines the grouping mechanism based activities' syntax, and then makes translation rules and a method based on the element (represent business function) and structure (relationships and process among elements), which are common constructs of their models. This method was applied to an online shopping mall system as a case study. With this mechanism, it will help develop a mechanical or automated structure transformation from the BPMN model to the FM.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.115-120
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• 2014

Many product line engineering methods use the feature model to structure commonality and variability among products in terms of features and to derive a product feature configuration, which is the set of features required for the development of a product. Features to be selected during product derivation are mainly determined based on the quality attributes required for a product. Most methods published so far derived an optimal product feature configuration through linear co-relationship between features and quality attributes. However, the co-relationship between features and quality attributes can be formulated as a non-linear function because of feature interactions. This paper proposes a method that derives an optimal product feature configuration considering feature interactions. Four product line cases are used to validate the proposed methods.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.33 no.7
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• pp.589-604
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• 2006

Software product lines (SPL) are recently an emerging software reuse paradigm, which helps organizations develop their products from reusable core assets rather than from scratch. For developing these assets, understanding commonality and variability (C&V) is essential. A feature-oriented approach has been used extensively for C&V analysis in the SPL. However, this contains no proposal to systematically identify features and provide the rationale for the features. Further, the approach does not directly show how the results of C&V analysis will satisfy an organization's high-level business goals and provide the rationale for the C&V. Therefore, this paper presents a domain analysis method for the SPL based on goals, scenarios, and features in order to overcome some of the deficiencies and limitations of the feature-oriented approach. In particular, the paper proposes a domain requirements model (DRM) and a domain requirements modeling method based on the DRM. This method has been applied to the home integration system (HIS) domain to demonstrate its feasibility with a supporting tool, namely IDEAS. Our approach makes it possible to systematically identify the features and provide the rationale for both the features and the C&V.

• Proceedings of the Korea Association of Information Systems Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.273-280
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• 2005

프로덕트 라인은 다양하게 빠르게 변화하는 시장의 요구사항과 특정 도메인에 속하는 응용들 간의 재사용 가능한 아키텍처 및 컴포넌트의 구성으로부터 연관된 시스템 구축 시 생산성과 품질의 향상을 제공함으로써 현재 많은 관심의 초점이 되고 있다. 이들 프로덕트 라인에서는 프로덕트들 사이의 공통성과 변화성에 초점을 두고 이들 분류 방법으로 휘처 모델링이라는 개념을 주로 사용하여 분석하고 있다. 또한 재사용 가능한 아키텍처는 많은 변화 계획들과 메커니즘을 포함하고 있다. 그러나 지금까지 이러한 변화들이 일어나는 상황을 이해하는 것과 특별한 상황에서도 가능하게 하는 옵션들을 기록하는 것은 명확히 이루어지지 못하였다. 따라서, 명확한 변화성의 표현과 아키텍처에서 변경되는 적절한 위치를 식별하는 것이 중요하다. 그러므로, 본 논문에서는 휘처 모델을 기반으로 한 아키텍처 상의 컴로넌트 변화성과 컴포넌트 간의 관련성에서의 변화성 표현방법을 기술하고. 제시한 이론을 기반으로 웹 학습 시스템을 개발하고자 한다.