Towards a stepwise variability management process for complex systems: A robotics perspective

International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 55-74

  Lotz, Alex ^a   Inglés Romero, Juan F ^b   Stampfer, Dennis ^a   Lutz, Matthias ^a   Vicente Chicote, Cristina ^c   Schlegel, Christian ^a  

^a ULM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Modeling run time variability; Service robotics; SmartTCL; Variability management; VML

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS;

APPLICATION EXECUTION; DYNAMIC VARIABILITY; NON FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES; RUNTIMES; SERVICE ROBOTICS; SMARTTCL; TASK EFFICIENCIES; VARIABILITY MANAGEMENT;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84919493772     PISSN: 19478186     EISSN: 19478194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/ijismd.2014070103     Document Type: Article

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