• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.119-127
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• 2005

Product line analysis is an activity for analyzing requirements, their relationships, and constraints in a product line before engineering product line assets (e.g., architectures and components). A feature-oriented commonality and variability analysis (called feature modeling) has been considered an essential part of product line analysis. Commonality and variability analysis, although critical, is not sufficient to develop reusable and adaptable product line assets. Dependencies among features and feature binding time also have significant influences on the design of product line assets. In this paper. we propose a feature-oriented product line analysis model that extends the existing feature model in terms of three aspects (i.e., feature commonality and variability, feature dependency, and feature binding time). To validate the consistency among the three aspects we formally define the feature-oriented product line analysis model and provide rules for checking consistency.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.328-341
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• 2007

When the decision to initiate a software product line has been taken, the first step is the domain analysis describing the variability in the requirements, the second important step is the definition of a domain architecture that captures the overall structure of a series of closely related products. A domain architecture can be a core asset in product line by describing the commonalities and variabilities of the products contained in the software product line. The variabilities, which are identified at each phase of the core assets development, are diverse in the level of abstraction. Therefore, it is important to clearly define, systematically identify, and explicitly represent variability at the architectural level. However, it is difficult to identify and represent the variability which should be considered at the architecture level, because these may be appeared in architecture elements and in architecture configuration. In this paper, we suggest a method of developing domain architecture as a core asset in product line where commonality and variability are explicitly considered. First of all, we will describe a domain architecture metamodel that can explicitly define commonality and variability concepts by extending the Object Management Group's ($OMG^{TM}$ Reusable Asset Specification eRAS) model. Using the domain architecture metamodel, architecture elements are defined and the variations that can be identified at the architecture level are classified into two types in according th abstract level. Additionally, we describe a domain architecture where commonality and variability are explicitly considered on basis of this metamodel.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.15D no.3
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• pp.361-374
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• 2008

In the latest intelligent computing environments, the self-adaptive software, as new software paradigm, which modifies its own behavior in response to changes in its operating environment is needed. To develop the self-adaptive software, it is necessary to analyze and design the context of software as well as the structure and the behavior of software. We need more efforts for self-adaptive software development than for traditional software development because we need more activities and technologies like context modeling and adaptation to develop the self-adaptive software. In this paper, we present the product line architecture for self-adaptive software and templates of artifacts to improve the efficiency of development through a reuse methodology. The artifacts of the architecture support the systematic reuse activities of core assets by expressing the commonality and variability of product line.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.422-425
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• 2009

RFID (Radio Frequency IDentificaiton)는 태그, 레이블, 카드 등에 저장된 데이터를 무선 주파수를 이용하여 리더에서 자동 인식하는 기술이다. RFID 애플리케이션은 RFID 태그의 실시간 정보를 기반으로 하는 업무 프로세스를 의미하는 것으로, RFID 정보를 이용하기 위해서는 기존의 비즈니스 프로세스가 변형되어져야 한다. RFID 미들웨어로부터 발생하는 저수준의 RFID 이벤트를 다양한 정보 서버들을 참조하여 고수준의 이벤트로 변환시키기 위한 일련의 활동(activity)들을 대부분의 RFID 애플리케이션에서 공통으로 수행하기 때문에 이러한 활동들을 재사용 될 수 있는 핵심자산으로 만들어놓을 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 다양한 유형의 RFID 애플리케이션에 재사용될 수 있는 RFID 관련 활동들을 RFID 제네릭 (generic) 활동으로 구분하고 이를 이용하여 2-레벨의 비즈니스 프로세스 패밀리 모델 (Business Process Family Model: BPFM)을 구축하는 방법을 제시한다. 상위 레벨의 RFID 제네릭 액티비티들은 두번에 걸쳐 가변치가 결정될 수 있는 가변점을 가지게 된다. 하위 레벨을 구성하는 도메인 활동들은 그 자체의 가변속성 뿐만 아니라 활동의 흐름에서 나타나는 다양한 형태의 가변요소들을 표현하게 된다. 이러한 2-레벨 BPFM을 이용함으로써 RFID 시스템 도입 시 처리해야 하는 활동들의 개발 양을 현저히 줄일 수 있다.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.857-860
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• 2005

웹 기술 기반의 컨텐츠 개발 및 운영으로 다른 환경에서의 컨텐츠 활용을 토대로 교육자원의 정보들을 통합 운영할 수 있는 관리 중심체인 e-learning 시스템의 중요성과 필요성이 대두되고 있으며, 교육용 어플리케이션은 현재 표준화되지 않은 개발 프로세스를 기반하여 개발하고 있는 실정이다. 따라서, 교육 컨텐츠의 재사용을 높이기 위해 국제적 학습 표준인 SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model)을 기반으로 하나의 플랫폼에 있어서 시스템 개발 중 다른 플랫폼으로의 재사용이 가능한 핵심자산을 이용하여 조립, 생산할 수 있는 방안으로 체계적인 교육자원을 개발하고 지원하기 위한 교수-학습지원 시스템 개발에 초점을 둔 연구가 요구된다. 따라서, 본 논문에서의 교육적 도메인으로 접근하여 MDA(Model Driven Architecture)상의 교수-학습지원 시스템을 정의한다. 또한 학습컨텐츠 표준 메타데이터를 이용하여 컨텐츠저장소에 관한 분석 및 설계를 하고 MDA 자동화 툴을 이용한 핵심자산을 통해 실제 교수자가 필요로하는 컨텐츠를 제공할 수 있는 교수-학습지원 시스템을 개발하고자 한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.449-459
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• 2006

Product Line Engineering (PLE) has been widely accepted as a representative software reuse methodology by using core assets. As a key element of core assets, product line architecture (PLA) should be generic to a set of applications in the product line (PL). However, the difference between PLA and single system architecture has not been treated well enough, so evaluating PLA still remains as one of the difficult tasks in PLE. In this paper, we identify two intrinsic but overlooked issues in PLA; variability propagation chain and conflicts between architectural elements. And, we present a metric-based methodto evaluate PLA from the perspective of the two issues. We believe that the two issues in PLA and the evaluation method would make designing high-quality PLA more feasible and effective.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.13D no.4 s.107
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• pp.583-592
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• 2006

Software development based on product lines has been proved a promising technology that can drastically reduce cycle time and guarantee quality by strategically reusing quality core assets that belong to an organization. However, how to measure within a product line is different from how to measure within a single software project in that we have to consider the aspects of both core assets and projects that utilize the assets. Moreover, the performance aspects of overall project lines need to be considered within a product line context. Therefore, a systematic approach to measure the performance of product lines is essential to have consistent, repeatable and effective measures within a product line. This paper presents a context-based measurements elicitation approach for product lines that reflects the performance characteristics of product lines and the diversity of their application. The approach includes both detailed procedures and work products resulting from implementation of the procedures, along with their templates. To show the utility of the approach, this paper presents the elicited measurements, especially for technical management practices among product line practices. This paper also illustrated a real application case that adopt this approach. The systematic approach enables management attributes, i.e., measurements to be identified when we construct product lines or develop software product based on the product lines. The measurements will be effective in that they are derived in consideration of the application context and interests of stakeholders.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.275-278
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• 2005

매년 빠른 성장률을 보이는 모바일 컨텐츠 서비스는 아직까지 확립된 표준이 없는 상황에서도 다양한 응용이 예상되고 있어서, 새로운 시스템을 쉽고 빠르게 도입하기 위해서는 체계적인 아키텍쳐의 확립이 요구되고 있다. 컨텐츠 시스템은 컨텐츠에 따른 전송 방식, 또는 제공 형태에 따라 차이를 가지면서도 그 요구 사항과 아키텍처는 유사하여 재사용이 가능하기 때문에 소프트웨어의 핵심적인 공통 자산을 재사용하는 기술인 프로덕트 라인 기술을 적용하는 것이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 프로덕트 라인 기술 중 UML 기반의 PLUS 방법을 사용하여 끊임없이 변화하는 모바일 컨텐츠 시장에 적용하여 분석, 설계를 통해 변화에 발 빠르게 대응할 수 있도록 한다. 아울러 산출된 아키텍쳐를 적용하여 새로운 모바일 서비스의 요구를 만족하는 프로토타입을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea society of information convergence
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.41-46
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• 2008

Contents application from contents development of web technical base and with the operation different environment information of the educational resources integration the importance and necessity of the management central chain e-Learning system will be able to operate are raising its head with base. Is the actual condition which develops the development process where but, the education application currently is not standardized in base. Approaches with an educational domain from the present paper consequently, and defines MDA(Model Driven Architecture) coats e-Learning System. Also uses a studying contents standard metadata and about the contents storage space analyzes and plans the core property which uses MDA automatic tools leads and under developing boil e-Learning System will be able to provide the contents which does in actual professor own necessity.

• Journal of Software Engineering Society
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.77-89
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• 2011

Software product line engineering is a software reuse paradigm that helps organizations improve software productivity and quality by developing software products from reusable core assets. For the satisfaction of common and variable requirements among products in the product line, the core assets must be configurable according to the selection of variable features. Therefore, unlike software architecture model of a single product, product line architecture model must embed and express variabilities among the products. Many researches have proposed methods of embedding and expressing variabilities in the product line architecture models, but there are few comparative studies on the proposed methods. In this paper we discuss strong points and weak points of the proposed methods and compare expressiveness of the methods, which helps select a proper method.