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In this paper, we present a systematic approach towards decision making for variability in product families in the context of uncertainty. Our approach consists of the following ingredients: a suitable set of architectural views that bridge the gap between customer needs and available technology, a multi-view variation modeling technique, the selection of several scenarios of different kinds, and a quantitative analysis of quality aspects for these scenarios.
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America, P., Hammer, D., Ionita, M.T., Obbink, H., Rommes, E. (2004). Scenario-Based Decision Making for Architectural Variability in Product Families. In: Nord, R.L. (eds) Software Product Lines. SPLC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3154. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-28630-1_18
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