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International Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support

International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Design

BPMDS 2013, EMMSAD 2013: Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling pp 354–369Cite as

Constructing Domain Knowledge through Cross Product Line Analysis

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Nowadays many companies develop and maintain families of systems, termed product lines (PL), rather than individual systems. Furthermore, due to increase in market competition and the dynamic nature of companies’ emergence, several PLs may exist under the same roof. These PLs may be independently developed taking into consideration different sets of products and requirements. Thus the developed artifacts potentially have a different and partial view of the domain. Moreover, future development and maintenance of the different PLs may require consolidating the various artifacts into a single coherent one. In this work, we present a method for constructing domain knowledge through cross PL analysis. This method uses similarity metrics, text clustering, and mining techniques in order to create domain models and recommend on improvements to the existing PLs artifacts. Preliminary results reveal that the method outcomes reflect human perception of the examined domain.

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  1. Department of Information Systems, University of Haifa, Haifa, 31905, Israel

    Ora Wulf-Hadash & Iris Reinhartz-Berger

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  1. University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris, France

    Selmin Nurcan

  2. Public Research Centre - Henri Tudor, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg

    Henderik A. Proper

  3. Information Systems, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

    Pnina Soffer

  4. Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491, Trondheim, Norway

    John Krogstie

  5. Aalen University, Beethovenstraße 1, 73430, Aalen, Germany

    Rainer Schmidt

  6. INTI International University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Terry Halpin

  7. Stockholm University/IbisSoft, Stockholm, Sweden

    Ilia Bider

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Wulf-Hadash, O., Reinhartz-Berger, I. (2013). Constructing Domain Knowledge through Cross Product Line Analysis. In: Nurcan, S., et al. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2013 2013. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 147. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38484-4_25

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