Title : 
MbFM: A matrix-based tool for modeling and configuring feature models
         
        
            Author : 
Li, Long ; Zhao, Haiyan ; Zhang, Wei
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Key Lab. of High Confidence Software Technol., Peking Univ., Beijing, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Feature-oriented analysis and modeling is widely accepted in software reuse, which consists of two major phases that should be taken seriously. The first is to construct a feature model, and the second is to configure products based on the feature model attained in the first. This paper presents a matrix-based approach to constructing and configuring feature models, whose main advantage is its scalability compared to traditional graphic-based feature models, and the supporting tool is presented to demonstrate its feasibility.
         
        
            Keywords : 
matrix algebra; software reusability; MbFM; feature-oriented analysis; feature-oriented modeling; matrix-based approach; product configuration; scalability; software reuse; Analytical models; Educational institutions; Laboratories; Software reusability; Switches; Syntactics; configuration; feature model; matrix-based;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), 2012 20th IEEE International
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Chicago, IL
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-2783-1
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
1090-750X
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/RE.2012.6345827