Abstract
Software systems have grown larger and more complex in recent years. Generative software development strives to automate software development from a systems family by generating implementations using domain-specific languages. In current practice, specifying domain-specific languages is a manual task requiring expert analysis of multiple information sources. Furthermore, the concepts and relations represented in a language are grown through its usage. Keeping the language consistent with its usage is a time-consuming process requiring manual comparison between the language instances and its language specification. Feature model mining addresses these issues by synthesizing a representative model bottom-up from a sample set of instances called configurations.
This thesis presents a mining algorithm that reverse-engineers a probabilistic feature model from a set of individual configurations. A configuration consists of a list of features that are defined as system properties that a stakeholder is interested in. Probabilistic expressions are retrieved from the sample configurations through the use of conjunctive and disjunctive association rule mining. These expressions are used to construct a probabilistic feature model.
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I will be holding a seminar describing my Master’s thesis work. It is open to all, so please attend if you’re interested. Feature Model Mining. Wednesday, August 6 at 1:30pm in EIT 3145.
Update: Here are the slides that I’ve used for my presentation.
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It seems that Adobe doesn’t want to be left out of the Web 2.0 office application fad with it’s Acrobat.com. It provides document writing, desktop sharing, PDF creation, and a neat online PDF reader. All of this was made possible by employing the formerly Macromedia’s Flash technology. I was initially excited about the online Acrobat reader since the Linux reader is quite slow, and the other online solutions, such as Scribd are less than impressive. However, the Flash plug-in for Linux isn’t very impressive either. Well, in any case, Adobe seems to have gotten the right idea, by starting work on an open-source Flash and certifying PDF as an ISO standard.
Published on
August 3, 2008 in
Life.
I’ve been recieving spam via Live Messenger and have mostly ignored them to-date. Feeling adventurous today, I decided to click and view one of these sites and noticed that they had a Terms of Use agreement. It’s actually quite a humourous read if you’re interested, so take a look below.
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The United States’ Department of Homeland Security now has the power to detain a traveler’s laptop indefinitely at the border, without any cause for suspicion. This is frightening, especially since all of my work and personal life is stored inside this machine. Not to mention that I use Linux, which might set off a cyber-terrorist alert, since it is the OS of hackers… apparently.
