Modeling Variants of Automotive Systems using Views
This work addresses the challenge of managing architectural variants for automotive systems, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing concepts like function nets and feature diagrams without claiming major breakthroughs.
The paper tackles the problem of modeling variability in automotive system architectures by introducing an approach that combines function nets, views, and feature diagrams to represent architectural variants, focusing on methodological aspects of this integration.
This paper presents an approach of modeling variability of automotive system architectures using function nets, views and feature diagrams. A function net models an architecture hierarchically and views are used to omit parts of such a model to focus on certain functionalities. In combination with feature diagrams that describe valid variants, the concepts of feature and variant views are introduced to model architectural variants. The relationship between views, variants and the underlying complete architectural model is discussed. Methodological aspects that come along with this approach are considered.