Non-functional properties aware configuration selection in component-based systems

In many contemporary reconfigurable component-based systems, different configurations of components can provide the same service or the similar functionality. Each configuration has its own set of components. It is very interesting to take advantage of the user preferences of non-functional properties such as price, speed in order to select the most satisfactory configuration. In this paper we propose an approach for choosing the most preferred configuration from a set of alternatives in order to maximize the end user satisfaction. The approach is based on using a list of non-functional properties (NFP) of components.