Software product line engineering optimizes the development of individual systems by leveraging their common characteristics and managing their differences in a systematic way. These differences are called variabilities. We argue that it is difficult for business people to fully benefit of the SPL if it remains at the software level. The paper proposes a move towards a description of software p...

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 intere...

Jǐŕı Anděl, Sergej Čelikovský, Marie Demlová, Jan Flusser, Petr Hájek, Vladimı́r Havlena, Didier Henrion, Yiguang Hong, Zdeněk Hurák, Martin Janžura, Jan Ježek, George Klir, Ivan Kramosil, Tomáš Kroupa, Petr Lachout, Friedrich Liese, Jean-Jacques Loiseau, Frantǐsek Matúš, Radko Mesiar, Karol Mikula, Jǐŕı Outrata, Jan Seidler, Karel Sladký Jan Štecha, Olga Štěpánková, Frantǐsek Turnovec, Igor Vaj...

Paul G. Spirakis was born on 29 August 1955 in Didymoteicho, a city in the northeastern part of Greece, just 2Km from the Greek-Turkish border. His father George Spirakis originated from that city, while his mother Olga Avgoustinou originated from the island of Zakynthos (or Zante). She moved to Didymoteicho as a teacher in an elementary school of the area, where she met Paul’s father. The fami...

Major organizations such as Cummins, Philips HealthCare, Hewlett Packard, and others have successfully applied these techniques. The software product line strategy is a blend of business and technical actions that lets an organization satisfy a wide range of customers, gain leverage with suppliers, meet the threats of substitute products, and deter other companies seeking to enter the market. T...

Software product line companies increasingly expand their platform outside their organizational boundaries, in effect transitioning to a software ecosystem approach. In this paper, we discuss the emerging trend of software ecosystems and provide a overview of the key concepts and implications of adopting a software ecosystem approach. We define the notion of software ecosystems and introduce a ...