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Addressing the challenges faced today during the development of multi-functional system families, we suggest a service-oriented approach to formally specifying the functionality and, in particular, the functional variability already in the requirement engineering phase. In this paper, we precisely define the underlying concepts, such as the notion of individual services, the combination of services, inter-service dependencies, and variability. Thereby, we especially focus on establishing the consistency of the overall specification. To that end, we formally define conflicts between requirements and describe how they can be detected and resolved based on the introduced formal concepts.
This work was partially funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the framework of the VEIA project under grant 01ISF15A. The responsibility for this article lies with the authors.
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Harhurin, A., Hartmann, J. (2008). Towards Consistent Specifications of Product Families. In: Cuellar, J., Maibaum, T., Sere, K. (eds) FM 2008: Formal Methods. FM 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5014. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68237-0_27
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