Introduction

Developing Product Lines requires analysis skills to identify, model, and encode domain and product knowledge into artifacts that can be systematically reused across the development life-cycle. As such, knowledge plays a paramount role in the success of Product Line Engineering (PLE) activities.

The key specific objectives of this workshop can be summarized as follows:

  • Compile current practices and experience in applying knowledge engineering techniques in engineering product line architectures.
  • Explore and discuss how the PLE industry can benefit from the knowledge engineering community and vice versa.
  • Discuss and document challenges and barriers for knowledge management and modeling in PLE.
  • Investigate various innovative techniques for modeling, developing, and implementing knowledge-oriented PLE.
  • Initiate a Working Group that focuses on knowledge issues related to PLE to further develop this area and its practice.