Towards the selection of modeling techniques for dynamic software product lines
Authors: 
Magno Luã de Jesus Souza, 
Alcemir Rodrigues Santos, Eduardo Santana de AlmeidaAuthors Info & Claims
Magno Luã de Jesus Souza, Alcemir Rodrigues Santos, Eduardo Santana de AlmeidaAuthors Info & ClaimsPages 19 - 22
Abstract
Emerging domains such as smart homes and more recently smart cities represent a big challenge to software engineering. In such context, the need of runtime self-adaptations to cope with both user needs and environmental changes brings Dynamic Software Product Lines (DSPL) as a suitable solution. However, DSPL implementation itself is challenging, which demands a proper modeling. In this sense, the literature still lacks of means of choosing the modeling technique that best fits a given domain. This paper tackles such problem by defining a criteria for rank such techniques, which is used for ranking a set DSPL modeling techniques found in the literature.
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