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Regarding the composition of variants with new configurations, our approach can combine different feature revisions with 99% precision and recall on average. Additionally, our approach retrieves hints when composing new configurations, which are useful to find artifacts that may have to be added or removed for completing a product. The hints help to understand possible feature interactions or dependencies. The average time to locate feature revisions ranged from 25 to 250 seconds, whereas the average time for composing a variant was 18 seconds. 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