Topologically configurable systems as product families
Alessandro Fantechi · 2013
We address a category of systems whose deployment requires a configuration according to topological information. Although inspired by the case of railway interlocking systems, we give a general definition of topologically configurable control systems. We consider the application of product line engineering principles to the development of these systems, by discussing the adoption of different approaches to achieve a flexible configuration of products, able to factorise most of the design effort, as typical in a product line approach.