{"id":"https://openalex.org/W4226377756","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3510003.3510200","title":"Causality in configurable software systems","display_name":"Causality in configurable software systems","publication_year":2022,"publication_date":"2022-05-21","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W4226377756","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3510003.3510200"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1145/3510003.3510200","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3510003.3510200","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4363608872","display_name":"Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"host_organization":null,"host_organization_name":null,"host_organization_lineage":[],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"conference"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["arxiv","crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"green","oa_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.07280","any_repository_has_fulltext":true},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5054154442","display_name":"Clemens Dubslaff","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5718-8276"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I78650965","display_name":"TU Dresden","ror":"https://ror.org/042aqky30","country_code":"DE","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I78650965"]}],"countries":["DE"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Clemens Dubslaff","raw_affiliation_strings":["Technische Universit\u00e4t Dresden, Dresden, Germany"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Technische Universit\u00e4t Dresden, Dresden, Germany","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I78650965"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5003830555","display_name":"Kallistos Weis","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9120-1670"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I91712215","display_name":"Saarland University","ror":"https://ror.org/01jdpyv68","country_code":"DE","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I91712215"]}],"countries":["DE"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Kallistos Weis","raw_affiliation_strings":["Saarland University, Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Saarland University, Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I91712215"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5091344667","display_name":"Christel Baier","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5321-9343"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I78650965","display_name":"TU Dresden","ror":"https://ror.org/042aqky30","country_code":"DE","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I78650965"]}],"countries":["DE"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Christel Baier","raw_affiliation_strings":["Technische Universit\u00e4t Dresden, Dresden, Germany"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Technische Universit\u00e4t Dresden, Dresden, Germany","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I78650965"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5054951840","display_name":"Sven Apel","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3687-2233"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I91712215","display_name":"Saarland University","ror":"https://ror.org/01jdpyv68","country_code":"DE","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I91712215"]}],"countries":["DE"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Sven Apel","raw_affiliation_strings":["Saarland University, Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Saarland University, Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I91712215"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":4,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5054154442"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I78650965"],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":3.2098,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":24,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.93496284,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":96,"max":99},"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":"325","last_page":"337"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10260","display_name":"Software Engineering Research","score":0.9998999834060669,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1710","display_name":"Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10260","display_name":"Software Engineering Research","score":0.9998999834060669,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1710","display_name":"Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10639","display_name":"Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies","score":0.9998000264167786,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12127","display_name":"Software System Performance and Reliability","score":0.9995999932289124,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1705","display_name":"Computer Networks and Communications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/feature","display_name":"Feature (linguistics)","score":0.7564302682876587},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/counterfactual-thinking","display_name":"Counterfactual thinking","score":0.7274101972579956},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/causality","display_name":"Causality (physics)","score":0.7168382406234741},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.7086953520774841},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/software","display_name":"Software","score":0.5361359715461731},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/theoretical-computer-science","display_name":"Theoretical computer science","score":0.5010461807250977},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/range","display_name":"Range (aeronautics)","score":0.4668584167957306},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/software-system","display_name":"Software system","score":0.4400850236415863},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/artificial-intelligence","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","score":0.4397541582584381},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/exploit","display_name":"Exploit","score":0.4215797185897827},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/feature-model","display_name":"Feature model","score":0.4209582507610321},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/machine-learning","display_name":"Machine learning","score":0.41640031337738037},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/programming-language","display_name":"Programming language","score":0.2045496106147766},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-security","display_name":"Computer security","score":0.10416248440742493}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776401178","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12050496","display_name":"Feature (linguistics)","level":2,"score":0.7564302682876587},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C108650721","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1783253","display_name":"Counterfactual thinking","level":2,"score":0.7274101972579956},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C64357122","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1149766","display_name":"Causality (physics)","level":2,"score":0.7168382406234741},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.7086953520774841},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2777904410","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7397","display_name":"Software","level":2,"score":0.5361359715461731},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C80444323","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2878974","display_name":"Theoretical computer science","level":1,"score":0.5010461807250977},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C204323151","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q905424","display_name":"Range (aeronautics)","level":2,"score":0.4668584167957306},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C149091818","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2429814","display_name":"Software system","level":3,"score":0.4400850236415863},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C154945302","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11660","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","level":1,"score":0.4397541582584381},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C165696696","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11287","display_name":"Exploit","level":2,"score":0.4215797185897827},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C101814296","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5439685","display_name":"Feature model","level":3,"score":0.4209582507610321},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C119857082","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2539","display_name":"Machine learning","level":1,"score":0.41640031337738037},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199360897","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9143","display_name":"Programming language","level":1,"score":0.2045496106147766},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C38652104","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3510521","display_name":"Computer security","level":1,"score":0.10416248440742493},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138885662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5891","display_name":"Philosophy","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111472728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9471","display_name":"Epistemology","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C62520636","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q944","display_name":"Quantum mechanics","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C159985019","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181790","display_name":"Composite material","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C121332964","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q413","display_name":"Physics","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C192562407","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q228736","display_name":"Materials science","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41895202","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8162","display_name":"Linguistics","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":3,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1145/3510003.3510200","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3510003.3510200","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4363608872","display_name":"Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"host_organization":null,"host_organization_name":null,"host_organization_lineage":[],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"conference"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:arXiv.org:2201.07280","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07280","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.07280","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306400194","display_name":"arXiv (Cornell University)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I205783295","host_organization_name":"Cornell University","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I205783295"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"text"},{"id":"pmh:doi:10.22028/d291-47181","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":null,"pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4406922384","display_name":"Open MIND","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"host_organization":null,"host_organization_name":null,"host_organization_lineage":[],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"conferenceObjectPart"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"pmh:oai:arXiv.org:2201.07280","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07280","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.07280","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306400194","display_name":"arXiv (Cornell University)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I205783295","host_organization_name":"Cornell University","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I205783295"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"text"},"sustainable_development_goals":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":100,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W5197001","https://openalex.org/W178554992","https://openalex.org/W336951068","https://openalex.org/W761508262","https://openalex.org/W1488583078","https://openalex.org/W1498432697","https://openalex.org/W1511405608","https://openalex.org/W1549367412","https://openalex.org/W1553894716","https://openalex.org/W1572578702","https://openalex.org/W1636554345","https://openalex.org/W1722082396","https://openalex.org/W1814905144","https://openalex.org/W1968560832","https://openalex.org/W1971654502","https://openalex.org/W1976758788","https://openalex.org/W1986531046","https://openalex.org/W1997537217","https://openalex.org/W2004541361","https://openalex.org/W2005989815","https://openalex.org/W2011342051","https://openalex.org/W2017630445","https://openalex.org/W2018094844","https://openalex.org/W2019184769","https://openalex.org/W2019477184","https://openalex.org/W2022615696","https://openalex.org/W2023808162","https://openalex.org/W2026545811","https://openalex.org/W2048064553","https://openalex.org/W2049931818","https://openalex.org/W2065086898","https://openalex.org/W2068847249","https://openalex.org/W2069283169","https://openalex.org/W2071109087","https://openalex.org/W2071894919","https://openalex.org/W2072617662","https://openalex.org/W2077085538","https://openalex.org/W2080267935","https://openalex.org/W2104959783","https://openalex.org/W2108999965","https://openalex.org/W2110025251","https://openalex.org/W2113033572","https://openalex.org/W2117189826","https://openalex.org/W2121081915","https://openalex.org/W2124682367","https://openalex.org/W2128204165","https://openalex.org/W2142861176","https://openalex.org/W2145064897","https://openalex.org/W2150069716","https://openalex.org/W2161565163","https://openalex.org/W2240989855","https://openalex.org/W2261122253","https://openalex.org/W2261238734","https://openalex.org/W2275911078","https://openalex.org/W2402551408","https://openalex.org/W2742512175","https://openalex.org/W2765204106","https://openalex.org/W2769879317","https://openalex.org/W2787456385","https://openalex.org/W2885305518","https://openalex.org/W2889801262","https://openalex.org/W2952277601","https://openalex.org/W2952730025","https://openalex.org/W2953843994","https://openalex.org/W2963125461","https://openalex.org/W2963715041","https://openalex.org/W2970412618","https://openalex.org/W2972470316","https://openalex.org/W2983551414","https://openalex.org/W2990770413","https://openalex.org/W3001769212","https://openalex.org/W3015267744","https://openalex.org/W3017934994","https://openalex.org/W3032979343","https://openalex.org/W3047564823","https://openalex.org/W3087168991","https://openalex.org/W3094557741","https://openalex.org/W3104110600","https://openalex.org/W3106103749","https://openalex.org/W3123155259","https://openalex.org/W3134445958","https://openalex.org/W3138838443","https://openalex.org/W3145267187","https://openalex.org/W3145442896","https://openalex.org/W3145915828","https://openalex.org/W3160229268","https://openalex.org/W3160685084","https://openalex.org/W3160961472","https://openalex.org/W4229549297","https://openalex.org/W4230508460","https://openalex.org/W4239991732","https://openalex.org/W4243976366","https://openalex.org/W4245840171","https://openalex.org/W4247726808","https://openalex.org/W4252984174","https://openalex.org/W4253241525","https://openalex.org/W4255555015","https://openalex.org/W4298235707","https://openalex.org/W4298420290","https://openalex.org/W4301961179"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W3201448254","https://openalex.org/W4286970243","https://openalex.org/W2066431708","https://openalex.org/W4384133558","https://openalex.org/W3025615835","https://openalex.org/W173210993","https://openalex.org/W2390660599","https://openalex.org/W3028847759","https://openalex.org/W2393688264","https://openalex.org/W3170174360"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Detecting":[0],"and":[1,6,55,66,77,83,93,110,137,156,183],"understanding":[2],"reasons":[3],"for":[4,90],"defects":[5],"inadvertent":[7],"behavior":[8],"in":[9,104],"software":[10,20,151],"is":[11,50,78],"challenging":[12],"due":[13],"to":[14,100,115,126,132,174],"their":[15,84],"increasing":[16],"complexity.":[17,41],"In":[18],"configurable":[19,150],"systems,":[21,152,158],"the":[22,27,44,58,72,88,116,161,179],"combinatorics":[23],"that":[24,86,112],"arises":[25],"from":[26,35],"multitude":[28],"of":[29,40,46,61,74,80,108,123,142,149,163,171,181],"features":[30,82],"a":[31,37,120,146],"user":[32],"might":[33],"select":[34],"adds":[36],"further":[38],"layer":[39],"We":[42,96,166],"introduce":[43],"notion":[45,170],"feature":[47,124,135,185],"causality,":[48],"which":[49],"based":[51],"on":[52,145],"counterfactual":[53],"reasoning":[54],"inspired":[56],"by":[57,64],"seminal":[59],"definition":[60],"actual":[62],"causality":[63,69,125,172],"Halpern":[65],"Pearl.":[67],"Feature":[68],"operates":[70],"at":[71],"level":[73],"system":[75],"configurations":[76],"capable":[79],"identifying":[81],"interactions":[85],"are":[87],"reason":[89],"emerging":[91],"functional":[92],"non-functional":[94],"properties.":[95],"present":[97],"various":[98],"methods":[99],"explicate":[101],"these":[102],"reasons,":[103],"particular":[105],"well-established":[106],"notions":[107],"responsibility":[109],"blame":[111],"we":[113,129,159],"extend":[114],"feature-oriented":[117],"setting.":[118],"Establishing":[119],"close":[121],"connection":[122],"prime":[127],"implicants,":[128],"provide":[130],"algorithms":[131],"effectively":[133],"compute":[134],"causes":[136],"causal":[138],"explications.":[139],"By":[140],"means":[141],"an":[143],"evaluation":[144],"wide":[147],"range":[148],"including":[153],"community":[154],"benchmarks":[155],"real-world":[157],"demonstrate":[160],"feasibility":[162],"our":[164,169],"approach:":[165],"illustrate":[167],"how":[168],"facilitates":[173],"identify":[175],"root":[176],"causes,":[177],"estimate":[178],"effects":[180],"features,":[182],"detect":[184],"interactions.":[186]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":11},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":3}],"updated_date":"2026-04-16T08:26:57.006410","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}