Master Thesis presentation: "Managing product variants in a component-based system"

Date: November 06, 2009 (Friday) at 14:00

Jacob Gradén and Anna Ståhl presents their Master Thesis "Managing product variants in a component-based system".

If you want to take part in this exjobb-presentation contact Lars.Bendix[at]cs.lth.se


Abstract:
Today's markets are fast-paced, with many different customers and
requirements on products. More than ever before, it is necessary to be
able to provide each customer with a tailor-made product,
corresponding to just that customer's needs. At the same time,
maintaining different products is costly and strains resources. By
reusing code and producing tailored variants of the same basic
product, the customer's requirements can be met while keeping costs
under control.

Component-based systems are becoming a popular way of managing product
variants and promoting code reuse. Component-based systems are based
on stand-alone components which can be combined in various ways to
produce different product variants - essentially using the same
building blocks to construct different products.

However, the many different requirements and product variants
introduce complexity which needs to be managed while retaining
flexibility, so that creating product variants is facilitated. This
means that not only components and products must be managed, but also
information pertaining to them, such as technical relationships
between components and business requirements on products.

This master thesis suggests a support tool to help in creating and
managing the different components and products, and outlines the
capabilities such a tool should have and the opportunities it would
present.

Room: Sony Ericsson

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