@conference { ISI:000380403000032,
	title = {Co-evolution Analysis for Software Product Lines},
	booktitle = {ENASE 2015 - PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EVALUATION OF NOVEL APPROACHES TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING},
	year = {2015},
	note = {10th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, Barcelona, SPAIN, APR 29-30, 2015},
	pages = {263-269},
	publisher = {Inst Syst \& Technol Information, Control \& Commun; Tech Council Software Engn; IEEE Comp Soc},
	organization = {Inst Syst \& Technol Information, Control \& Commun; Tech Council Software Engn; IEEE Comp Soc},
	abstract = {The purpose of our approach is to study the co-evolution of the platform and the products of software product lines. Because the platform must be able to derive all the family products, products are not allowed to evolve independently from the plateform, thus the propagation of the products changes must be managed efficiently. Instead of focusing on the change impact analysis we propose an approach to compare the evolution histories of the products and the platform illustrated through evolutionary trees built using the biological technique cladistics. This comparison yields important results concerning the change propagation. In this paper, we introduce the use of cladistics for software product lines to build evolutionary trees for platform and products, then we elaborate a mathematical analysis to compare these trees, afterwards we validate this work through a case study (mobile media software product lines). We also provide the design of an automated tool.},
	isbn = {978-9-8975-8143-4},
	author = {Benlarabi, Anissa and Khtira, Amal and El Asri, Bouchra},
	editor = {Filipe, J and Maciaszek, L}
}
@conference { ISI:000380403000031,
	title = {Detecting Feature Duplication in Natural Language Specifications when Evolving Software Product Lines},
	booktitle = {ENASE 2015 - PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EVALUATION OF NOVEL APPROACHES TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING},
	year = {2015},
	note = {10th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, Barcelona, SPAIN, APR 29-30, 2015},
	pages = {257-262},
	publisher = {Inst Syst \& Technol Information, Control \& Commun; Tech Council Software Engn; IEEE Comp Soc},
	organization = {Inst Syst \& Technol Information, Control \& Commun; Tech Council Software Engn; IEEE Comp Soc},
	abstract = {Software product lines are dynamic systems that need to evolve continuously to meet new customer requirements. This evolution impacts both the core platform of the product line and its derived products. For several reasons, the most common way to express requirements by customers is natural language. However, the experience has shown that this communication channel does not give the possibility to detect system defects such as inconsistency and duplication. The objective of this paper is to propose a method to transform textual requirements into the XML format used by some Feature-oriented software development tools, in order to facilitate the detection of features duplication.},
	isbn = {978-9-8975-8143-4},
	author = {Khtira, Amal and Benlarabi, Anissa and El Asri, Bouchra},
	editor = {Filipe, J and Maciaszek, L}
}
@conference { ISI:000380387700114,
	title = {A Co-evolution Model for Software Product Lines: an Approach Based on Evolutionary Trees},
	booktitle = {2014 SECOND WORLD CONFERENCE ON COMPLEX SYSTEMS (WCCS)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {2014 Second World Conference on Complex Systems (WCCS), Agadir, MOROCCO, NOV 10-12, 2014},
	pages = {140-145},
	publisher = {Ibn Zohr Univ; Moroccan Soc of Complex Syst; IEEE Morocco; Int Acad for Syst and Cybernet Sci IASCYS},
	organization = {Ibn Zohr Univ; Moroccan Soc of Complex Syst; IEEE Morocco; Int Acad for Syst and Cybernet Sci IASCYS},
	abstract = {Software product line engineering allows for the development of common reference assets that can be reused in the development of a set of products of a particular market, the purpose of such large scale reuse is the improvement of time to market and the reduction of costs. This goal can only be achieved if the software product line assets are continuously evolved to cope with changes of user requirements. In this paper we present a co-evolution model for checking the integrity of the software product line during its evolution. The model is established using cladistics and trees reconciliation that are used in biology to analyze the co-evolution between organisms. This model shows the divergent co-evolution which represents a difference between the evolutionary trees of the software product line and a derived product. The model helps to find out changes of products that were not propagated to the reference assets and to anticipate the future development to be done on these reference assets to cope with products evolution. By its application we protect software product lines from the aging phenomenon.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-4647-1},
	author = {Benlarabi, Anissa and El Asri, Bouchra and Khtira, Amal}
}
@conference { ISI:000345780700058,
	title = {Towards a Co-evolution Model for Software Product Lines Based on Cladistics},
	booktitle = {2014 IEEE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN INFORMATION SCIENCE (RCIS)},
	series = {International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science},
	year = {2014},
	note = {IEEE 8th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), Marrakesh, MOROCCO, MAY 28-30, 2014},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; EMSI; Lab Math Informatique \& Applicat},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; EMSI; Lab Math Informatique \& Applicat},
	abstract = {The evolution of a software product line is more challenging than the evolution of a single product, because its artifacts depend on many products. If a change is not well studied, it can break the integrity of the reference architecture of the software product line and all the derived products. Hence, when dealing with evolution, the understanding of change and its impact must be the most important activity. Biology is the science which studied evolution the most. Therefore it was necessary for us to understand evolution in biology in order to handle evolution in software product lines. This paper presents our approach to deal with change understanding in software product line using co-evolution analysis which was used in biology to understand how organisms influence each other during their evolution over time. Similarly to biological co-evolution, the co-evolution of artifacts of a software product line consists on analyzing how the evolution of an artifact influences the evolution of the others. The input data used in our approach are extracted from the history of changes that happened to each version of the software product. Our objective is to establish a co-evolution model for software product lines using Cladistics classification which illustrates the evolution of a population through an evolutionary tree.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-2393-9},
	issn = {2151-1349},
	author = {Benlarabi, Anissa},
	editor = {Bajec, M and Collard, M and Deneckere, R}
}
@conference { ISI:000380387700116,
	title = {Towards a Requirement-Based Approach to Support Early Decisions in Software Product Line Engineering},
	booktitle = {2014 SECOND WORLD CONFERENCE ON COMPLEX SYSTEMS (WCCS)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {2014 Second World Conference on Complex Systems (WCCS), Agadir, MOROCCO, NOV 10-12, 2014},
	pages = {152-157},
	publisher = {Ibn Zohr Univ; Moroccan Soc of Complex Syst; IEEE Morocco; Int Acad for Syst and Cybernet Sci IASCYS},
	organization = {Ibn Zohr Univ; Moroccan Soc of Complex Syst; IEEE Morocco; Int Acad for Syst and Cybernet Sci IASCYS},
	abstract = {During the creation of a software product, the stakeholders have to take a lot of decisions. These decisions are related to the product scope, requirements priority, architecture assumptions, technological issues, etc. In the domain of Software Product Lines, many studies have dealt with decisions taken during the lifetime of the product, but a little attention has been given to the pre-project decisions. The aim of this paper is to propose a requirement-based framework that capitalizes on the specific products already derived from the product line, in order to support the benchmarking of the possible solutions that respond to a customer{\textquoteright}s needs, and to help the stakeholders of a product take decisions concerning the scope of the product and the requirements to implement.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-4647-1},
	author = {Khtira, Amal and Benlarabi, Anissa and El Asri, Bouchra}
}
