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GPCE 2016
Mon 31 October - Tue 1 November 2016 Amsterdam, Netherlands
co-located with SPLASH 2016
Tue 1 Nov 2016 11:00 - 11:30 at Zürich 1 - Feature Models and Product Lines Chair(s): Christoph Seidl

Today’s competitive marketplace requires the industry to understand unique and particular needs of their customers. Product line practices enable companies to create individual products for every customer by providing an interdependent set of features. Users configure personalized products by consecutively selecting desired features based on their individual needs. However, as most features are interdependent, users must understand the impact of their gradual selections in order to make valid and desired decisions. Thus, especially when dealing with large feature models, specialized assistance is needed to guide the users in configuring their product. Recently, recommender systems have proved to be an appropriate mean to assist users in finding information and making decisions. In this paper, we propose an advanced feature recommender system that provides personalized recommendations to users. In detail, we offer four main contributions: (i) We provide a recommender system that suggests relevant features to ease the decision-making process. (ii) Based on this system, we provide visual support to users that guides them through the decision-making process and allows them to focus on valid and relevant parts of the configuration space. (iii) We provide an interactive open-source configurator tool encompassing all those features. (iv) In order to demonstrate the performance of our approach, we compare three different recommender algorithms in two real case studies derived from business experience.

Tue 1 Nov

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10:30 - 12:10
Feature Models and Product LinesGPCE at Zürich 1
Chair(s): Christoph Seidl Technische Universität Braunschweig
10:30
30m
Talk
A Change-Centric Approach to Compile Configurable Systems with #ifdefs
GPCE
Larissa Braz Federal University of Campina Grande, Rohit Gheyi UFCG, Brazil, Melina Mongiovi , Márcio Ribeiro Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), Flavio Medeiros , Leopoldo Teixeira Federal University of Pernambuco
11:00
30m
Talk
A Feature-Based Personalized Recommender System for Product-Line Configuration
GPCE
Juliana Alves Pereira University of Magdeburg, Pawel Matuszyk University of Magdeburg, Sebastian Krieter Magdeburg University, Myra Spiliopoulou University of Magdeburg, Gunter Saake Magdeburg University
11:30
30m
Talk
Explaining Anomalies in Feature Models
GPCE
Matthias Kowal TU Braunschweig, Germany, Sofia Ananieva FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Thomas Thüm University of Ulm