@inproceedings{ab8a674c797b48a69a5fbcf390be7ab0,
title = "An ontological approach for identifying software variants: Specialization and template instantiation",
abstract = "Software is a crucial component of many products and often is a product in itself. Software artifacts are typically developed for particular needs. Often, identifying software variants is important for increasing reuse, reducing time and costs of development and maintenance, increasing quality and reliability, and improving productivity. We propose a method for utilizing variability mechanisms of Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) to allow identification of variants of software artifacts. The method is based on an ontological framework for representing variability of behaviors. We demonstrate the feasibility of the method on two common variability mechanisms-specialization and template instantiation. The method has been implemented using reverse engineered code. This provides a proof-of-concept of its feasibility.",
keywords = "Reuse, Software product line engineering, Variability",
author = "Iris Reinhartz-Berger and Anna Zamansky and Yair Wand",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2016.; 35th International Conference on Conceptual Modelling, ER 2016 held in conjunction with Workshops on AHA, MoBiD, MORE-BI, MReBA, QMMQ, SCME and WM2SP, 2016 ; Conference date: 14-11-2016 Through 17-11-2016",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-46397-1\_8",
language = "American English",
isbn = "9783319463964",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "98--112",
editor = "Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau and Il-Yeol Song and Shuichiro Yamamoto and Motoshi Saeki and Katsumi Tanaka",
booktitle = "Conceptual Modeling - 35th International Conference, ER 2016, Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
}