Model-driven support for product line evolution on feature level

Evolution in Model-Driven Software Product-Line Architectures

This chapter describes our approach to modeldriven engineering (MDE)-based product line architectures (PLAs) and presents a solution to address the domain evolution problem. We use a case study of a representative software-intensive system from the distributed real-time embedded (DRE) systems domain to describe key challenges when facing domain evolution and how we can evolve PLAs systematicall...

Supporting Evolution in Model-Driven Software Product-line Architectures

Feature-oriented Modelling of Product Line Evolution

Product line engineering (PLE) needs to consider evolution and strategic planning of evolution steps right from the beginning. If evolution is not taken care of, the benefits of model-driven PLE (e.g., productivity gains, strategic reuse, complexity handling) will be difficult to achieve. In this paper we propose an approach for strategic planning and management of feature model evolution. Our ...

On-line Face Tracking Using a Feature Driven Level Set

An efficient and general framework for the incorporation of statistical prior information, based on a wide variety of detectable point features, into level set based object tracking is presented. Level set evolution is based on the maximisation of a set of likelihoods on mesh values at features, which are located using a stochastic sampling process. This evolution is based on the interpolation ...

Feature Patterns and Product Line Model Transformations

Feature models are the basic instrument to analyze and configure the variability and commonality of a software product line. But feature models embody various different variability facets (structural, behavioral, non-functional, etc.). Features, used as core model, must be completed with other techniques (i.e. goals or UML models) to fulfill these variability aspects. This approach allows us to...