Towards cardinality-based service feature diagrams

To provide efficient services to end-user it is essential to manage variability among services. Feature modelling is an important approach to manage variability and commonalities of a system in product line. Feature models are composed of feature diagrams. Service feature diagrams (an extended form...

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Main Authors: Ghulam Mustafa Assad, Muhammad Naeem, Hafiz Abdul Wahab
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences 2015-03-01
Series:Computational Ecology and Software
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Online Access:http://www.iaees.org/publications/journals/ces/articles/2015-5(1)/cardinality-based-service-feature-diagrams.pdf
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Summary:To provide efficient services to end-user it is essential to manage variability among services. Feature modelling is an important approach to manage variability and commonalities of a system in product line. Feature models are composed of feature diagrams. Service feature diagrams (an extended form of feature diagrams) changed the basic framework of feature diagrams by proposing new feature types and their relevance. Service feature diagrams provide selection rights for variable features. In this paper we argue that it is essential to put cardinalities on service feature diagrams. That is, the selection of features should be done under some constraints, to provide a lower and upper limit for the selection of features. The use of cardinalities on service feature diagrams reduces the types of features to half, while keeping the integrity of all features.
ISSN:2220-721X
2220-721X