Requirements-driven software customization

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The objective of our research is to introduce a set of tools and techniques for building and configuring highly-customizable software. Software that is highly-customizable allows users with limited or no technical skills and knowledge to easily configure it so that it perfectly fits their unique characteristics and needs. The current software development practice underestimates the need for intuitive and accessible customization facilities, mainly due to the absence of systematic methods for constructing them. This is evident in several application domains, such as common desktop applications (word processors or e-mail clients) and their "bloated" configuration screens or packaged information systems and the overwhelming costs that organizations pay for customizing them to fit their individual business needs.