Product Lines for Digital Information Products

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KIT Scientific Publishing, 2007 - Computer software - 220 pages
Digital information products are an important class of widely used digital products, whose core benefit is the delivery of information or education (e.g., electronic books, online newspapers, e-learning courses).This book introduces a novel and systematic approach, Product Lines for Digital Information Products (PLANT), which focuses on the creation of variants of such products within a product line, and which extends concepts from the area of software product lines.

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Page 10 - Kotler (1984:463) offers a useful definition: a product is 'anything that can be offered to a market for attention, acquisition, use, or consumption that might satisfy a want or need. It includes physical objects, services, persons, places, organizations, and ideas'.
Page 44 - More formally, a software product line is "a set of software-intensive systems sharing a common, managed set of features that satisfy the specific needs of a particular market segment or mission and that are developed from a common set of core assets in a prescribed way
Page 36 - A software component is a unit of composition with contractually specified interfaces and explicit context dependencies only.
Page 43 - A product line is a group of products that are closely related either because they satisfy a class of need, are used together, are sold to the same customer groups, are marketed through the same types of outlets, or fall within given price ranges.
Page 28 - Glossary (2003), e-learning covers a wide set of applications and processes, such as Web-based learning, computer-based learning, virtual classrooms, and digital collaboration. It includes the delivery of content via Internet, intranet-extranet (LAN/WAN), audio- and videotape, satellite broadcast, interactive TV, and CDROM.
Page 201 - Workflow Patterns: On the Expressive Power of (Petri-net-based) Workflow Languages. In K. Jensen, editor, Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on the Practical Use of Coloured Petri Nets and CPN Tools (CPN 2002), volume 560 of DAIMI, pages 1-20, Aarhus, Denmark, August 2002.
Page 43 - More specifically, an architectural style defines a vocabulary of components and connector types, and a set of constraints on how they can be combined.
Page 57 - An activity in which a system or component is executed under specified conditions, the results are observed or recorded and an evaluation is made of some aspect of the system or component.
Page 205 - W. Reisig. Place/Transition Petri Nets. In Lectures on Petri nets I: Basic Models, LNCS 1491, pp.
Page 204 - A survey of architecture description languages, in Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Software Specification and Design, IEEE Computer Society Press, New York, 1996, pp.

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