Abstract
Ideally, product development in a product line context should consist of selecting the appropriate components, assembling them and setting their parameters. That is, configuring the components. In industrial contexts, component variability varies exponentially with the hundreds, even thousands of products that are realised. Even such a simple direct configuration process, when applicable, is daunting. The problem is compounded when potential modification of the components or component selection based on their effect on overall product capability are taken into account.
The EU-IST project ConIPF is defining a methodology to support product line product development under these conditions with product configuration methods from artificial intelligence. It has defined CKML (Configuration Knowledge Modelling Language) to combine the aspects of feature and component variability and interaction with the procedural aspects of configuring features and components. This language is used to specify the development support environment and to assess the applicability of commercial configuration tools for that development environment.
This paper describes key elements of the ConIPF methodology and shows its relevance to architectural considerations.
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MacGregor, J. (2004). Expressing Domain Variability for Configuration. In: Oquendo, F., Warboys, B.C., Morrison, R. (eds) Software Architecture. EWSA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3047. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24769-2_22
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