Modeling Strucutre and Behaviour for Knowledge Based Software Configuration

There are several approaches to knowledge-based configuration, which are successfully applied in technical domains. Nevertheless they appear not to be sufficient for configuring software-based systems, as they primarily proceed in a structurebased manner, but do not take the system’s behavior into account. In this context, the configuration of software-based systems does not mean the programming of software, but the composition of existing software modules into an individual software variant. Our approach uses state-based behavior descriptions for domain objects, which can be directly used for making decisions during the configuration process. Our goal is to apply this approach for a knowledge-based configuration of future software-based vehicle electronic systems, which implement customer-individual vehicle functions.