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Applying semantic web technology to feature modeling

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Lamia Abo Zaid,

Frederic Kleinermann,

Olga De TroyerAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '09: Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing

Pages 1252 - 1256

https://doi.org/10.1145/1529282.1529563

Published: 08 March 2009 Publication History

Abstract

Feature models are models used to capture differences and commonalities between software features, enabling the representation of variability within software. There are many variations of feature models and different notations are often used to represent the same information. Currently support for validating or integrating feature models is missing. In this paper, we provide an ontology framework for feature modeling which consists of an ontology that formally provides a specification for feature models. In addition, we provide means to integrate segmented feature models and provide a rule based model consistency check and conflict detection. We use SWRL rules to implement the rules and a DL reasoner to evaluate the rules and infer extra interesting information regarding the variability of the software.

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DOI:10.1145/1529282

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