Agile software development processes of various kinds have been proposed and put into practice. Generally they are specific-approach oriented at the operational-characteristic level. Ten underlying principles for agile systems were identified by examining over a hundred various non-software systems that exhibit agility. This paper outlines and discusses the first purposeful employment of these ...

Nowadays the interest in Ambient Intelligence Environments has grown considerably due to new challenges posed by the evolution of society requirements to more friendly environments. Ambient Intelligence technology is not fully developed and integrated in everyday life, but a lot of organisations are interested in it. On the other hand, Aspect Oriented Software Development is considered a growin...

With the advent of aspect-oriented programming, the need for adequate techniques for handling aspect-oriented artifacts in the early phases of the software engineering process has emerged. In this paper, we present an aspect-oriented language extension for an integrated modeling language based on object models. We present the way aspect constructs can be handled in requirements and architectura...

All software systems are subject to evolution, independently by the developing technique. Aspect oriented software in addition to separate the different concerns during the software development, must be “not fragile” against software evolution. Otherwise, the benefit of disentangling the code will be burred by the extra complication in maintaining the code. To obtain this goal, the aspect-orien...

Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) offers new insights and tools for the modular development of systems with cross-cutting features. Current tool support for AOSD is provided mainly in the form of code-level constructs. This paper presents a way to express cross-cutting features as logical invariants and to use generative techniques to produce the kind of code that is usually written m...

Teaching object-oriented programming has clearly become an important part of computer science education. We agree with many others that the best place to teach it is in the CS1 introductory course. Many problems with this have been reported in the literature. These mainly result from inadequate languages and environments. Blue is a new language and integrated programming environment, currently ...

Service-orienting computing systems refer to computing and information systems that are developed in service-oriented architecture, service-oriented computing paradigm, and service-oriented development lifecycle. The development of service-oriented computing systems is completing the first decade in its lifespan. Service-oriented computing systems started with the concept of Service-Oriented Ar...