Dynamic decision models for staged software product line configuration

Requirements Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 187-212

  Bagheri, Ebrahim ^a,b   Ensan, Faezeh ^c  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Feature models; Software product lines; Stakeholder preferences; Utility elicitation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; CONCRETE PRODUCTS; MODELS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

FEATURE MODELS; RAPID PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE; SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE ENGINEERINGS; STAKEHOLDER PREFERENCES; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; SYSTEMATIC REPRESENTATION; UTILITY ELICITATIONS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84900872964     PISSN: 09473602     EISSN: 1432010X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00766-013-0165-8     Document Type: Article

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