Laurence Duchien, Paul Grünbacher, Thomas Thüm,
"Foreword to the Special Issue on Configurable Systems"
, in Empirical Software Engineering, Vol. 26, Nummer 4, 2021, ISSN: 1573-7616
Original Titel:
Foreword to the Special Issue on Configurable Systems
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
Welcome to this special issue that includes empirical studies on configurable systems. This
special issue in the Empirical Software Engineering journal is intended to provide the
systems and software product lines community with a valuable collection of high-quality
research articles that explore configurable systems with empirical studies. Particular atten-
tion was paid to research and industrial work carrying out experiments on configuration
steps in the life cycle of system and software product lines. A configurable system is an arti-
fact composed from instances of a set of predefined component types that can be composed
and parameterized. The configuration step requires knowledge representation formalisms
to capture variety and complexity of configurable products, but also acquisition methods
and efficient reasoning algorithms for supporting solution search, to represent, and integrate
user settings, personalization, and optimization. The configuration ends with the deploy-
ment and launches execution steps. This configuration can also change over time, because
of a change of context. This is called reconfiguration.