<s>
In	O
software	B-General_Concept
engineering	I-General_Concept
,	O
domain	B-General_Concept
analysis	I-General_Concept
,	O
or	O
product	O
line	O
analysis	O
,	O
is	O
the	O
process	O
of	O
analyzing	O
related	O
software	O
systems	O
in	O
a	O
domain	B-General_Concept
to	O
find	O
their	O
common	O
and	O
variable	O
parts	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Domain	B-General_Concept
analysis	I-General_Concept
is	O
the	O
first	O
phase	O
of	O
domain	B-General_Concept
engineering	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Domain	B-General_Concept
analysis	I-General_Concept
produces	O
domain	B-Application
models	I-Application
using	O
methodologies	O
such	O
as	O
domain	B-Language
specific	I-Language
languages	I-Language
,	O
feature	O
tables	O
,	O
facet	O
tables	O
,	O
facet	O
templates	O
,	O
and	O
generic	O
architectures	O
,	O
which	O
describe	O
all	O
of	O
the	O
systems	O
in	O
a	O
domain	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Several	O
methodologies	O
for	O
domain	B-General_Concept
analysis	I-General_Concept
have	O
been	O
proposed	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
products	O
,	O
or	O
"	O
artifacts	O
"	O
,	O
of	O
a	O
domain	B-General_Concept
analysis	I-General_Concept
are	O
sometimes	O
object-oriented	O
models	O
(	O
e.g.	O
</s>
<s>
represented	O
with	O
the	O
Unified	B-Language
Modeling	I-Language
Language	I-Language
(	O
UML	B-Language
)	O
)	O
or	O
data	B-Application
models	I-Application
represented	O
with	O
entity-relationship	B-Architecture
diagrams	I-Architecture
(	O
ERD	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Software	B-Application
developers	I-Application
can	O
use	O
these	O
models	O
as	O
a	O
basis	O
for	O
the	O
implementation	O
of	O
software	B-Architecture
architectures	I-Architecture
and	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
approach	O
to	O
domain	B-General_Concept
analysis	I-General_Concept
is	O
sometimes	O
called	O
model-driven	B-Language
engineering	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
information	O
science	O
,	O
the	O
term	O
"	O
domain	B-General_Concept
analysis	I-General_Concept
"	O
was	O
suggested	O
in	O
1995	O
by	O
Birger	O
Hjørland	O
and	O
H	O
.	O
Albrechtsen	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Several	O
domain	B-General_Concept
analysis	I-General_Concept
techniques	O
have	O
been	O
identified	O
,	O
proposed	O
and	O
developed	O
due	O
to	O
the	O
diversity	O
of	O
goals	O
,	O
domains	O
,	O
and	O
involved	O
processes	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
DARE	O
:	O
Domain	B-General_Concept
Analysis	I-General_Concept
and	O
Reuse	O
Environment	O
,	O
</s>
