Feature models and their extensions have been proposed and used
over the past 20 years for modeling the commonality and
variability of software systems. However, the increasing runtime
demands and post-deployment configuration procedures of self-
adaptive, context-aware and pervasive systems has brought the
need for modeling context features. In addition, many critical
systems that demand stringent collaborative features at runtime
need also to share information dynamically. In this research-in-
progress paper, we sketch our vision of where feature modeling
should go to support collaborative aspects of systems. Our
proposal suggests identifying and annotating context features
models with collaborative information that becomes particularly
useful for critical and swarm-based systems that require
information exchange at runtime.