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In software configuration management, little attention has been paid to the evolution of system models, that is, the description of the components that make up a system, and the relationships between them. We present an extension to the version set model based on description logic, where roles, set-valued features, model relationships between version sets. Relationships are versioned with their components; features are propagated and unified along component relationships, ensuring configuration completeness and consistency. The integrated version set model has been realized in ICE MAKE, a MAKE clone dealing with versioned system models. ICE MAKE constructs arbitrary version sets according to their respective dependencies and deduces features and dependencies as imposed by the propagated configuration constraints.
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Zeller, A. (1998). Versioning system models through description logic. In: Magnusson, B. (eds) System Configuration Management. SCM 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1439. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053883
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