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{{Short description|Software engineering concept}}

'''Feature interaction''' is a [[software engineering]] concept. It occurs when the integration of two features would modify the behavior of one or both features.

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In this situation, it is possible that the system’s decision will be made in a [[Nondeterministic algorithm|non-deterministic]] fashion due to [[Concurrency (computer science)|race conditions]] and other design factors. The consequences of feature interactions can range from minor irritations to life-threatening software failures, and therefore there is ongoing research that aims to find ways of ''detecting'' as well as ''resolving'' feature interactions.

===Workshops and conferences===

==See also==

*[[Dependability]]

==External links==

===Workshops and conferences===

*The series of Feature Interaction Workshops (FIW) and the International Conferences on Feature Interaction (ICFI) are the primary venues devoted to this problem:

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| FIW'94

| Amsterdam, Thethe Netherlands

| L.G. Bouma, H. Velthuijsen

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| S. Reiff-Marganiec, M. D. Ryan

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071126074956/http://www-lsr.imag.fr/ICFI2007/ ICFI'07]

| Grenoble, France

| F. Ouabdesselam, L. du Bousquet

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| S. Reiff-Marganiec, M. Nakamura

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==See also==

*[[Dependability]]

==External links==

===Research groups===

*[http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/research/hfig/ Hybrid Feature Interaction Group]

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061020203632/http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/Projects/FI/index.html University of Amsterdam]

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050526022739/http://www.docs.uu.se/docs/fi/ Uppsala University]

===Papers===

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120806133417/http://www.research.att.com/~pamela/faq.html FAQ Sheet on Feature Interaction], [[Pamela Zave]].

*[http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~bernie/keynote.ps Agents and their Services: An Ontological Approach to Feature Interaction] B. Cohen, City University.

*[http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cameron94feature.html A Feature Interaction Benchmark for IN and Beyond] E. Jane Cameron, [[Nancy Davis Griffeth|Nancy D. Griffeth]], Yow-Jian Lin, Margaret E. Nilson, William K. Schnure, Bellcore, and H. Velthuijsen, PTT Research, The Netherlands.

* [http://www.iospress.nl/subject/feature-interactions/ Conference proceedings] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130620072427/http://www.iospress.nl/subject/feature-interactions/ |date=2013-06-20 }} of FIW and ICFI at [http://www.iospress.nl IOS Press].

* [http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~muffy/papers/calder-kolberg-magill-reiff.pdf Feature interaction: a critical review and considered forecast]. M. Calder, M. Kolberg, E. H. Magill, and S. Reiff-Marganiec. Computer Networks 41, pp. 115–141 (2002).

* [http://oro.open.ac.uk/22499/ Feature Interaction as a Context Sharing Problem]. Armstrong Nhlabatsi, Robin Laney, and Bashar Nuseibeh. International Conference on Feature Interactions, 11-12 June, University of Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 133-148 (2009).

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