eprintid: 1606
rev_number: 7
eprint_status: archive
userid: 30
dir: disk0/00/00/16/06
datestamp: 2013-06-03 08:33:33
lastmod: 2013-06-03 08:33:33
status_changed: 2013-06-03 08:33:33
type: monograph
succeeds: 1589
metadata_visibility: no_search
creators_name: ter Beek, Maurice H.
creators_name: Lluch-Lafuente, Alberto
creators_name: Petrocchi, Marinella
creators_id: maurice.terbeek@isti.cnr.it
creators_id: alberto.lluch@imtlucca.it
creators_id: marinella.petrocchi@iit.cnr.it
title: Combining Declarative and Procedural Views in the Specification and Analysis of Product Families
ispublished: submitted
subjects: QA75
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: working_paper
abstract: We introduce the feature-oriented language FLan as a proof of concept for specifying both declarative aspects of product families, namely constraints on their features, and procedural aspects, namely design processes and run-time behaviour. FLan is inspired by the con- current constraint programming paradigm. A store of constraints allows one to specify in a declarative way all common constraints on features, including cross-tree constraints as known from feature models. A standard yet rich set of process-algebraic operators allows one to specify in a procedural way the configuration and behaviour of products. There is a close interaction between both views: (i) the execution of a process is constrained by its store to forbid undesired configurations; (ii) a process can query a store to resolve design and behavioural choices; (iii) a process can update the store, for instance to add new features. An implementa- tion in the Maude framework allows for a variety of formal automated analyses of product families specified in FLan, ranging from consistency checking to model checking.
date: 2013-05
date_type: submitted
institution: I
projects: ASCENS
projects: QUANTICOL
projects: CINA
citation:   ter Beek, Maurice H. and Lluch-Lafuente, Alberto and Petrocchi, Marinella  Combining Declarative and Procedural Views in the Specification and Analysis of Product Families.  Working Paper       (Submitted)   
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