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An aspect-oriented language for feature-modeling

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When modeling families of ambient systems, we experience a number of special challenges due to unpredictable variability in the environments of the systems. One solution to deal with these challenges is to adapt aspect-oriented technology to product family modeling. In this paper, we propose a new language AO-PFA, which adapts the aspect-oriented paradigm to product families. This paradigm enhances the adaptability and evolvability of product families. The proposed language is an extension of the specification language product family algebra (PFA). We discuss the constructs of the proposed language as well as its usage to specify aspects.

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  1. FODA (Kang et al. 1990) is one of the feature-modeling techniques that are widely used to specify the reusable core assets of a product family and to describe how individual products can be configured from these core assets.

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This research is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Grant Number RGPIN227806-09. We thank the numerous reviewers for their comments that helped us improve the quality of this paper.

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    Qinglei Zhang, Ridha Khedri & Jason Jaskolka

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This article is a revised and enlarged version of (Zhang et al. 2012a).

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Zhang, Q., Khedri, R. & Jaskolka, J. An aspect-oriented language for feature-modeling. J Ambient Intell Human Comput 5, 343–356 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-013-0201-z

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