@Conference{DBLP:conf/compsac/MazoLSDE11,
  author    = {Raúl Mazo and Roberto E. Lopez-Herrejon and Camille Salinesi and Daniel Diaz and Alexander Egyed},
  title     = {Conformance Checking with Constraint Logic Programming: The Case of Feature Models.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 35th Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2011), Munich, Germany},
  year      = {2011},
  pages     = {456-465},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
  abstract  = {Developing high quality systems depends on developing high quality
	models. An important facet of model quality is their consistency
	with respect to their meta-model. We call the verification of this
	quality the conformance checking process. We are interested in the
	conformance checking of Product Line Models (PLMs). The problem in
	the context of product lines is that product models are not created
	by instantiating a meta-model: they are derived from PLMs. Therefore
	it is usually at the level of PLMs that conformance checking is applied.
	On the semantic level, a PLM is defined as the collection of all
	the product models that can be derived from it. Therefore checking
	the conformance of the PLM is equivalent to checking the conformance
	of all the product models. However, we would like to avoid this naïve
	approach because it is not scalable due to the high number of models.
	In fact, it is even sometimes infeasible to calculate the number
	of product models of a PLM. Despite the importance of PLM conformance
	checking, very few research works have been published and tools do
	not adequately support it. In this paper, we present an approach
	that employs Constraint Logic Programming as a technology on which
	to build a PLM conformance checking solution. The paper demonstrates
	the approach with feature models, the de facto standard for modeling
	software product lines. Based on an extensive literature review and
	an empirical study, we identified a set of 9 conformance checking
	rules and implemented them on the GNU Prolog constraints solver.
	We evaluated our approach by applying our rules to 50 feature models
	of sizes up to 10000 features. The evaluation showed that our approach
	is effective and scalable to industry size models.},
  doi       = {10.1109/COMPSAC.2011.66},
  file      = {:Conferences\\COMPSAC 2011 - Conformance Checking with Constraint Programming - A Case Study Using Feature Models\\Conformance Checking with Constraint Logic Programming - The Case of Feature Models-preprint.pdf:PDF},
  keywords  = {FWF P21321, EU IEF 254965},
}