Questionnaire-based Variability Modeling for System Configuration
La Rosa, Marcello and van der Aalst, Wil M.P. and Dumas, Marlon and ter Hofstede, Arthur H.M. (2008) Questionnaire-based Variability Modeling for System Configuration. (Unpublished)
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Abstract
Variability management is a recurrent issue in systems engineering. It arises for example in enterprise systems, where modules are configured and composed to meet the requirements of individual customers based on modifications to a reference model. It also manifests itself in the context of software product families, where variants of a system are built from a common code base. This paper proposes an approach to capture system variability based on questionnaire models that include order dependencies and domain constraints. The paper presents analysis techniques to detect circular dependencies and contradictory constraints in questionnaire models, as well as techniques to incrementally prevent invalid configurations by restricting the space of allowed answers to a question based on previous answers. The approach has been implemented as a toolset and has been used in practice to capture configurable process models for film post-production.
| ID Code: | 12686 |
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| Item Type: | Journal Article |
| Subjects: | Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES (080000) > INFORMATION SYSTEMS (080600) > Conceptual Modelling (080603) Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES (080000) > INFORMATION SYSTEMS (080600) Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES (080000) |
| Divisions: | QUT Faculties and Divisions > Faculty of Science and Technology |
| Copyright Owner : | Copyright 2008 (The authors) |
| Deposited On: | 27 Feb 2008 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2009 01:47 |
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