Software product lines (SPL) aim at reducing time-to-market and increasing software quality
through extensive, planned reuse of artifacts. An essential activity in SPL is variability …

The domain analysis process is used to identify and document common and variable
characteristics of systems in a specific domain. In order to achieve an effective result, it is …

Abstract Software Product Line (SPL) management is a key activity for software product line
engineering. The idea behind SPL management is to focus on artifacts that are shared in …

Component Based Developed aims at constructing software through the inter-relationship
between pre-existing components. However, these components should be bound to a …

One of the goals of Software design is to model a system in such a way that it is reused.
Actively reusing designs or code allows taking advantage of the investment made on …

Software design patterns are a way of facilitating design reuse in object-oriented systems by
capturing recurring design practices. Lots of design patterns have been identified and …

Software reuse is a common practice that aims to reduce costs and effort, while improving
quality and productivity. However, it also raises challenges of retrieving existing artifacts and …

Considering the increasing demand of multi-agent systems, the practice of software reuse is
essential to the development of such systems. Multi-agent domain engineering is a process …

The main objective of domain engineering is to provide domain information that helps the
specification of domain applications. Some applications need to reuse information from …

Ontologies provide an unambiguous terminology that can be shared by all involved in a
software development process. They can also be as generic as needed allowing its reuse …