@techreport{TR-IC-07-33,
  number = {IC-07-33},
  author = {Ana Elisa de Campos Lobo and
            Patrick Henrique da Silva Brito and
            Cec{\'{\i}}lia Mary Fischer Rubira},
  title = {A Systematic Approach for Architectural Design of
           Component-Based Product Lines},
  month = {November},
  year = {2007}, 
  institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas},
  note = {In English, 23 pages.
    \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract}
       Software product line is a systematic software reuse approach
       that promotes the generation of specific products from a set of
       core assets for a given domain, exploiting the commonalities
       and variabilities among these products. Feature modeling is one
       of the most accepted ways to represent commonalities and
       variabilities at the requirements phase. At the architecture
       design phase, product line architecture is an important core
       asset that should represent the common and variable parts in a
       product line. This technical report proposes an approach that
       supports the architectural design phase of component-based
       product line engineering. Our proposal for the conception of a
       product line architecture is based on the definition of
       variable architectural elements; and how they are derived from
       a given feature model and the interactions among features,
       providing a prescribed way to map features to the variable
       architectural elements composing the product line
       architecture. The main results of this work are a metamodel to
       define product line concepts extended with software
       architecture concepts, and a method for architectural design of
       product line engineering, to generate a product line
       architecture and instantiate it for a specific product. In
       order to evaluate the method, a case study was carried out,
       applying the approach to a product line in the mobile domain.
  }
}