Software Product Line Engineering and Variability Modeling of Software-intensive Systems (VaMoS)

Often some of the best information available on the latest techniques used to develop software comes out of the proceedings published after a conference. Usually you have to purchase them for $100 and up. Example: 10th International Software Product Lines Conference (SPLC 2006)

The 10th International Software Product Lines Conference (SPLC 2006) did post some of the papers from the conference here. This one is very good.

The First International Workshop on Variability Modeling of Software-intensive Systems (VaMoS) has posted their proceedings and have made them available for free download. It covers a wide range of topics related to Software Product Line Engineering.

It would be nice if more conferences did the same.

Below is the table of contents of what you will find in the VaMoS proceedings:

Keynote
Software Product-Lines: What To Do When Enumeration Won’t Work ... 9
David L. Parnas

Technical Papers
Exploring the Dimensions of Variability: a Requirements Engineering Perspective ...17
Sotirios Liaskos, Lei Jiang, Alexei Lapouchnian, Yiqiao Wang, Yijun Yu,
Julio Cesar do Prado Sampaio Leite, John Mylopoulos

Requirements Modelling and Design Notations for Software Product Lines ... 27
John Brown, Rachel Gawley, Ivor Spence, Peter Kilpatrick,
Charles Gillan, Rabih Bashroush

An Aspect-oriented Approach for Representing Variability in
Product Line Architecture ... 37
Youngbong Kim, Mikyeong Moon, Keunhyuk Yeom

Separation of Variability Dimension and Development Dimension... 45
Isabel John, Dirk Muthig, Jaejoon Lee

Modelling Variation in Quality Attributes ... 51
Leire Etxeberria, Goiuria Sagardui, Lorea Belategi

KumbangSec: An Approach for Modelling Functional and Security Variability
in Software Architectures... 61
Varvana Myllärniemi, Mikko Raatikainen, Tomi Männistö

Visualisation of Variability in Software Product Line Engineering ... 71
Daren Nestor, Luke O'Malley, Ernst Sikora, Steffen Thiel

Unified Feature Modeling as a Basis for Managing Complex System Families ... 79
Mark-Oliver Reiser, Ramin Tavakoli, Matthias Weber

Adding Aspects to xADL 2.0 for Software Product Line Architectures ... 87
Nadia Gámez, Lidia Fuentes

Language and UML Support for Features: Two Research Challenges... 97
Roberto Lopez-Herrejon

Using Goal-Models to Analyze Variability ... 101
Bruno Gonzalez-Baixauli, Miguel A. Laguna,
Julio Cesar do Prado Sampaio Leite

On the Structure of Problem Variability: From Feature Diagrams to
Problem Frames... 109
Andreas Classen, Patrick Heymans, Robin Laney, Bashar Nuseibeh, Thein Tun

DecisionKing: A Flexible and Extensible Tool for Integrated Variability Modeling... 119
Deepak Dhungana, Paul Grünbacher, Rick Rabiser

FAMA: Tooling a Framework for the Automated Analysis of Feature Models... 129
David Benavides, Sergio Segura, Pablo Trinidad, Antonio Ruíz-Cortés

Specifying Variability of an Extensive Mobile System for Feasible
Stakeholder Communication and Optimized Delivered Product Architecture ... 135
Lech Krzanik

Challenges in the Application of Feature Modelling in
Fixed Line Telecommunications... 141
Charles Gillan, Peter Kilpatrick, Ivor Spence, Rachel Gawley,
John Brown, Rabih Bashroush

Using Problem Descriptions to Represent Variabilities For
Context-Aware Applications... 149
Mohammed Salifu, Bashar Nuseibeh, Lucia Rapanotti, Thein Tun

Layered design approach for context-aware systems... 157
Brecht Desmet, Jorge Vallejos, Pascal Costanza, Robert Hirschfeld

A Plea for Help with Variability, in Two Acts ... 167
Reed Little, Randy Blohm

Variability Models Must Not be Invariant!... 171
Elmar Juergens, Markus Pizka

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