Diversity is prevalent in modern software systems to facilitate adapting the software to
customer requirements or the execution environment. Diversity has an impact on all phases …

In view of the growing complexity of modern software architectures, formal models are
increasingly used to understand why a system works the way it does, opposed to simply …

This book discusses how model-based approaches can improve the daily practice of
software professionals. This is known as Model-Driven Software Engineering (MDSE) or …

The idea for this book arose from a series of lectures on modern programming paradigms,
feature-oriented programming, and software product lines that are continuously held at the …

This paper focuses on the challenges of modeling cyber–physical systems (CPSs) that arise
from the intrinsic heterogeneity, concurrency, and sensitivity to timing of such systems. It …

FeatureIDE is an open-source framework for feature-oriented software development (FOSD)
based on Eclipse. FOSD is a paradigm for the construction, customization, and synthesis of …

Context-awareness is an essential component of systems developed in areas like Intelligent
Environments, Pervasive & Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. In these …

Defect prediction has been an active research area for over four decades. Despite
numerous studies on defect prediction, the potential value of defect prediction in practice …

Variability modeling is essential for defining and managing the commonalities and
variabilities in software product lines. Numerous variability modeling approaches exist today …

Handling large-scale software variability is still a challenge for many organizations. After
decades of research on variability management concepts, many industrial organizations …