Software constitutes a major cost factor when developing technical systems. To reduce this cost, systematic reuse of assets is necessary from early on when developing similar products—an approach that has become known as software product line engineering. The automation of product derivation, that is, the automated product creation from core assets, is one of the success factors of product line...

Facilitating product customization, configuration has attracted much attention from both academia and industry alike. However, the available studies and the reported systems focus on sales or product configuration while leaving other important issues in developing customized products unaddressed. A new configuration concept: integrated Sales, Product and Production configuration (SPP configurat...

Structure-based configuration models describe commonality and variability as well as restrictions within and between components of a product domain. Innovation in the development of products drives the development of new components and adaptation of existing components. As a consequence of evolution, the configuration model has to evolve in parallel with its referants in the world. A side effec...