Topic T2C: Variability

Summary

• Requested in 14/26 calls
• Requested in 13/19 pure calls (2014–2026 with the longest streak of 13 years)
• Primary tagged in 8/26 paper bundles
• Primary tagged in 7/19 pure proceedings (2008–2025 with the longest streak of 4 years)
• Secondary tagged in 9/26 paper bundles
• Secondary tagged in 8/19 pure proceedings (2009–2024 with the longest streak of 2 years)
• Top 3 co-occurring topics:
  • T3C: DSLs (9 times)
  • T1D: Composition (7 times)
  • T1A: Design (5 times)
• Top 3 contributors:
  • Benoît Combemale (3 times)
  • Pablo Sánchez (2 times)
  • Jõao Santos (2 times)

List of papers (20)

• (ATEM 2006 SI) Evaluating Formal Properties of Feature Diagram Languages (Patrick Heymans, Pierre-Yves Schobbens, Jean-Christophe Trigaux, Yves Bontemps, Raimundas Matulevičius, Andreas Claßen) T2C T5D T1A T5B
• (SLE 2008) Engineering Languages for Specifying Product-Derivation Processes in Software Product Lines (Pablo Sánchez, Neil Loughran, Lidia Fuentes, Alessandro Fabricio Garcia) T2C T3C T1A
• (SLE 2008 SI) A Model-Based Approach to Families of Embedded Domain-Specific Languages (Jesús Sánchez Cuadrado, Jesús Garćıa Molina) T1E T2C T1D T3C
• (SLE 2009) Composing Feature Models (Mathieu Acher, Philippe Collet, Philippe Lahire, Robert B. France) T2C T1D T5D
• (SLE 2009) VML* – A Family of Languages for Variability Management in Software Product Lines (Steffen Zschaler, Pablo Sánchez, Jõao Santos, Mauricio Alférez, Awais Rashid, Lidia Fuentes, Ana Moreira, João Araújo, Uirá Kulesza) T2C T3C T1A
• (SLE 2009) Multi-view Composition Language for Software Product Line Requirements (Mauricio Alférez, Jõao Santos, Ana Moreira, Alessandro Fabricio Garcia, Uirá Kulesza, João Araújo, Vasco Amaral) T5A T2C T1D
• (SLE 2010) A Language for Software Variation Research (Martin Erwig) T2C T1C T3C
• (SLE 2010) Feature and Meta-Models in Clafer: Mixed, Specialized, and Coupled (Kacper Bąk, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Andrzej Wąsowski) T2C T3C T1D
• (SLE 2010) Evaluating a Textual Feature Modelling Language: Four Industrial Case Studies (Arnaud Hubaux, Quentin Boucher, Herman Hartmann, Raphaël Michel, Patrick Heymans) T5E T2C T6B
• (SLE 2011) Designing Variability Modeling Languages (Krzysztof Czarnecki) T2C T1A T3C
• (SLE 2012) Bridging the Chasm between Executable Metamodeling and Models of Computation (Benoît Combemale, Cécile Hardebolle, Christophe Jacquet, Frédéric Boulanger, Benoît Baudry) T1C T1D T2C T3C
• (SLE 2013) Variability Support in Domain-Specific Language Development (Edoardo Vacchi, Walter Cazzola, Suresh Pillay, Benoît Combemale) T2C T1D T1E T3C
• (SLE 2014) Evaluating the Usability of a Visual Feature Modeling Notation (Aleksandar Jakšic, Robert B. France, Philippe Collet, Sudipto Ghosh) T5H T4F T2C T5E
• (SLE 2015) Using Decision Rules for Solving Conflicts in Extended Feature Models (Lina Ochoa, Oscar González-Rojas, Thomas Thüm) T2C T4B T5B T5E
• (SLE 2018) Analysing Meta-Model Product Lines (Esther Guerra, Juan de Lara, Marsha Chechik, Rick Salay) T1A T5D T2C
• (SLE 2021) The Next 700 Language Workbenches (Mikhail Barash) T4A T1D T2C
• (SLE 2023) Enabling Blended Modelling of Timing and Variability in EAST-ADL (Muhammad Waseem Anwar, Federico Ciccozzi, Alessio Bucaioni) T3C T2C T6F T4F
• (SLE 2024) There Is Only One Time in Software (Language) Engineering! (Benoît Combemale) T6D T2B T2C T6F
• (SLE 2025) Variability Fault Localization by Abstract Interpretation and its Application to SPL Repair (Aleksandar S. Dimovski) T2C T5D T2B
• (SLE 2025) (Semantic) Feature Model Differences with (Q)SAT (Simone Heisinger, Maximilian Heisinger, Martina Seidl) T2C T5D T2B

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