Configurable Software Product Families
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1 Helsinki University of Technology, TAI Research Centre and Laboratory of Information Processing Science, P.O. Box 9555, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland. Email: {Tomi.Mannisto, Timo.Soininen, Reijo.Sulonen}@hut.fi Abstract. Product configuration is a specific area of research and business for mechanical (and electrical) products. However, configurable software products have not attracted as much interest. This paper outlines the concept of configurable software product families covering millions of variants from which product individuals are configured to meet particular customer needs. Solutions to managing such software products are sought from experiences with mechanical products and expressed here in the form of a research agenda.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000