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This theme issue presents some of the most recent advances in and applications of software for context-aware and smart healthcare, so as to provide a view of the state of the technology.
Hierarchically decomposed component-based system development reduces design complexity by supporting distribution of work and component reuse. For product line development, the variability of the components to be deployed in different products has to be represented by appropriate means. In this paper, we propose hierarchical variability modeling which allows specifying component variability integrated...
Ronny Kolb and Frank van der Linden discuss the pros and cons of software product lines. Kolb writes about the competitive advantages software product lines can deliver in reducing time-to-market in his article, "The Need for Speed: Releasing Products Earlier Using Software Product Lines." Whereas, in "Why Do We Do Product Lines?" van der Linden cautions that different stakeholders...
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