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Features on demand

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Nicolás Cardozo,

Wolfgang De Meuter,

Sebastián González,

Pierre-Yves OrbanAuthors Info & Claims

VaMoS '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems

Article No.: 18, Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/2556624.2556630

Published: 22 January 2014 Publication History

Abstract

This paper presents our vision of applications as feature clouds, providing software services that are composed dynamically from a set of available fine-grained features. Our feature cloud programming model realizing this vision, relies on context-oriented programming technology, enabling new or adapted features to be added to or removed from running applications on demand, according to contextual information, and taking into account feature dependencies. As a proof of concept, we implemented a prototype of an on-board car system running on a mobile device, using an instantiation of our feature clouds programming model for JavaScript.

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Index Terms

Features on demand
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features

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VaMoS '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems

January 2014

170 pages

ISBN:9781450325561

DOI:10.1145/2556624

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Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
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IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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