Managing infinite variability in mobile terminal software

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 513-537

  Maccari, Alessandro ^a   Heie, Anders ^b  

^a NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS   (Finland)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Mobile terminal software; Product family architecture; Variability management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

MOBILE TERMINAL SOFTWARE; MOBILE TERMINALS; PRODUCT FAMILY ARCHITECTURE; VARIABILITY MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 18744407026     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.645     Document Type: Article

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