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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
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    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-014-21-3573</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">29267</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>D.2.13 - Reusable Software</subject>
          <subject>D.2.2 - Design Tools and Techniques</subject>
          <subject>D.2.7 - Distribution</subject>
          <subject> Maintenance</subject>
          <subject> and Enhancement</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Algebraic Laws for Feature Models</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group content-type="authors">
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Gheyi</surname>
            <given-names>Rohit</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">rohit@dsc.ufcg.edu.br</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Massoni</surname>
            <given-names>Tiago</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Borba</surname>
            <given-names>Paulo</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A3">3</xref>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Campina Grande, , Brazil</addr-line>
        <institution>Campina Grande</institution>
        <country>Brazil</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil</addr-line>
        <institution>Federal University of Campina Grande</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Campina Grande</addr-line>
        <country>Brazil</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A3">
        <label>3</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil</addr-line>
        <institution>Federal University of Pernambuco</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Recife</addr-line>
        <country>Brazil</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Rohit Gheyi (<email xlink:type="simple">rohit@dsc.ufcg.edu.br</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2008</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2008</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>14</volume>
      <issue>21</issue>
      <fpage>3573</fpage>
      <lpage>3591</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/1B9CD58A-40C2-50D5-8102-9FE8D1B0B58C">1B9CD58A-40C2-50D5-8102-9FE8D1B0B58C</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/7000583">7000583</uri>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Rohit Gheyi, Tiago Massoni, Paulo Borba</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Software Product Lines (SPL) may be adopted by either bootstrapping existing software products into a SPL, or extending an existing SPL to encompass an additional software product. Program refactorings are usually applied for carrying out those tasks. The notion of SPL refactoring is an extension of the traditional definition of refactoring; it involves not only program refactorings, but also Feature Model (FM) refactorings, in order to improve configurability. However, FM refactorings are hard to define, due to the incompleteness of the refactoring catalogs developed as of today. In this paper, we propose a complete, sound catalog of algebraic laws, making up special FM refactorings that preserve configurability. This catalog is also defined as minimal, as one law cannot be derived from another one in the same catalog. In addition, a theory for FMs is presented, in the context of a theorem prover.</p>
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