Non-clausal encoding of feature diagram for automated diagnosis

  • Authors:
  • Shin Nakajima

  • Affiliations:
  • National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • SPLC'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software product lines: going beyond
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Automated support for finding unsatisfiable fragments is desirable to help removing deficiency in inconsistent feature diagrams. In encoding feature diagrams into propositional logic formulas, such a problem reduces to finding unsatisfiable cores. Standard algorithms work on clausal formulas, which looses the structural aspect of feature diagram. In this paper, we propose a new automated method, which employs a boolean constraint propagation algorithm for non-clausal formulas. The method can eliminate the problems in the previous approaches, where translation back and forth is required between feature diagram and clausal formulas.