Configuration change management provides a way for a manufacturer to become more competitive. Because of the short life and the large variety involved in commercial products, they must be configured accordingly. It is a task for the configuration change management. This paper presents an integrated model for modeling the change behavior of product parts, and for evaluating alternative suppliers...

Software product lines offer a comprehensive strategy for successfully building products. This strategy also greatly expands the number and types of artifacts upon which that success depends. Managing these artifacts over the lifetime of the product line requires a carefully structured set of configurations and a rigorously enforced change management process. In this paper we present an approac...

In this article, we are interested in spoken term detection task, with a particular focus on Person Name (PN) spotting in automatic speech recognition (ASR) system outputs. We propose a two-step method that combines an acoustic matching based on a Phoneme Confusion Network (PCN) with a semantic rescoring based on the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) models. The first module allows to find, in ...

Configuration management, the traditional CM, has been subsumed by a new CM, change management. The strategic organization looks ahead and this includes planning for change. This is an area of particular interest to software product line organizations. A product line organization must manage multiple options and control implementations of those options. In this issue of Strategic Software Engin...

Software product line (SPL) is a set of software systems that share a common set of features satisfying the specific needs of a particular market segment. A feature represents an increment in functionality relevant to some stakeholders. SPLs commonly use a feature model to capture and document common and varying features. The key challenge of using feature models is to derive a product configur...

Development and management of software product families is an emerging and important area of software engineering, whereas product configuration of traditional, i.e., mechanical and electronic, product families has a slightly longer history as a specific area of research and business. This paper describes work in progress on the management of configurable software product families. Solutions to...