Extraction of feature models from formal contexts
Uwe Ryssel, Joern Ploennigs, Klaus Kabitzsch · 2011
For economical reasons, the creation of feature oriented software should include previously created products and should not be done from scratch. To speed up this migration process, feature models have to be generated automatically from existing product variants. This work presents an approach based on formal concept analysis that analyzes incidence matrices containing matching relations as input and creates feature models as output. The resulting feature models describe exactly the given input variants. The introduced novel optimized approach performs this transformation in reasonable time even for large product libraries.