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Reducing feature models to improve runtime adaptivity on resource limited devices

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Karsten Saller,

Sebastian Oster,

Julia Schroeter,

Malte LochauAuthors Info & Claims

SPLC '12: Proceedings of the 16th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 2

Pages 135 - 142

https://doi.org/10.1145/2364412.2364435

Published: 02 September 2012 Publication History

Abstract

Mobile devices like smartphones are getting increasingly important in our daily lifes. They are used in various environments and have to dynamically adapt themselves accordingly in order to provide an optimal runtime behavior. Naturally, adapting to continuously changing environmental conditions is a challenging task because mobile devices are always limited in their resources and have to adapt in real-time. In this paper, we introduce an approach that enables resource limited devices to adapt to changing conditions using dynamic software product lines techniques. Therefore, feature models are reduced to a specific hardware context before installing the adaptive mobile application on the device. This reduces the amount of possible configurations that are compatible with the device and, thereby, minimizes the costs and the duration of an adaptation during runtime.

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Reducing feature models to improve runtime adaptivity on resource limited devices
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Software management
        Software maintenance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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DOI:10.1145/2364412

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10270-017-0587-8
Lochau MBürdek JHölzle SSchürr A(2017)Specification and automated validation of staged reconfiguration processes for dynamic software product linesSoftware and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)10.1007/s10270-015-0470-416:1(125-152)Online publication date: 1-Feb-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10270-015-0470-4
Eichelberger H(2016)A Matter of the Mix: Integration of Compile and Runtime Variability2016 IEEE 1st International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*W)10.1109/FAS-W.2016.17(12-17)Online publication date: Sep-2016
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