An ontological approach for identifying software variants: Specialization and template instantiation

Iris Reinhartz-Berger; Anna Zamansky; Yair Wand

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46397-1_8

An ontological approach for identifying software variants: Specialization and template instantiation

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Abstract

Software is a crucial component of many products and often is a product in itself. Software artifacts are typically developed for particular needs. Often, identifying software variants is important for increasing reuse, reducing time and costs of development and maintenance, increasing quality and reliability, and improving productivity. We propose a method for utilizing variability mechanisms of Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) to allow identification of variants of software artifacts. The method is based on an ontological framework for representing variability of behaviors. We demonstrate the feasibility of the method on two common variability mechanisms-specialization and template instantiation. The method has been implemented using reverse engineered code. This provides a proof-of-concept of its feasibility.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Conceptual Modeling - 35th International Conference, ER 2016, Proceedings
Editors	Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, Katsumi Tanaka, Il-Yeol Song, Shuichiro Yamamoto, Motoshi Saeki
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	98-112
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Print)	9783319463964
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46397-1_8
State	Published - 2016
Event	35th International Conference on Conceptual Modelling, ER 2016 - Gifu, Japan Duration: 14 Nov 2016 → 17 Nov 2016

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	9974 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	35th International Conference on Conceptual Modelling, ER 2016
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Gifu
Period	14/11/16 → 17/11/16

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Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG 2016.

Keywords

Reuse
Software product line engineering
Variability

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Reinhartz-Berger, I., Zamansky, A., & Wand, Y. (2016). An ontological approach for identifying software variants: Specialization and template instantiation. In I. Comyn-Wattiau, K. Tanaka, I.-Y. Song, S. Yamamoto, & M. Saeki (Eds.), Conceptual Modeling - 35th International Conference, ER 2016, Proceedings (pp. 98-112). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 9974 LNCS). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46397-1_8

Reinhartz-Berger, Iris ; Zamansky, Anna ; Wand, Yair. / An ontological approach for identifying software variants : Specialization and template instantiation. Conceptual Modeling - 35th International Conference, ER 2016, Proceedings. editor / Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau ; Katsumi Tanaka ; Il-Yeol Song ; Shuichiro Yamamoto ; Motoshi Saeki. Springer Verlag, 2016. pp. 98-112 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Reinhartz-Berger, I , Zamansky, A & Wand, Y 2016, An ontological approach for identifying software variants: Specialization and template instantiation. in I Comyn-Wattiau, K Tanaka, I-Y Song, S Yamamoto & M Saeki (eds), Conceptual Modeling - 35th International Conference, ER 2016, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9974 LNCS, Springer Verlag, pp. 98-112, 35th International Conference on Conceptual Modelling, ER 2016, Gifu, Japan, 14/11/16. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46397-1_8

An ontological approach for identifying software variants: Specialization and template instantiation. / Reinhartz-Berger, Iris ; Zamansky, Anna; Wand, Yair.
Conceptual Modeling - 35th International Conference, ER 2016, Proceedings. ed. / Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau; Katsumi Tanaka; Il-Yeol Song; Shuichiro Yamamoto; Motoshi Saeki. Springer Verlag, 2016. p. 98-112 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 9974 LNCS).

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An ontological approach for identifying software variants: Specialization and template instantiation

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