We present how we used Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) to ease the development of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). Our study focuses on the Aalaadin MAS model. We make use of AOP at both the conceptual level of Aalaadin and the implementation level. On the conceptual level, we introduced in Aalaadin AOP concepts. It results in unifying the group concept of Aalaadin with the aspect concept. This uni...

AOP [2] introduced the notion of crosscutting concerns in programming. An aspect groups a crosscut (aka. pointcut in Aspect-J [3]) which relates several points of interest (aka. join points) of the base application with an action (aka. advice) to be performed. This article argues for a clear separation of crosscut and action de nitions. The tools for AOP currently available support only simple ...

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) provides assistance in modularizing concerns that crosscut the boundaries of system decomposition. Aspects have the potential to interact with many different kinds of language constructs in order to modularize crosscutting concerns. Although several aspect languages have demonstrated advantages in applying aspects to traditional modularization boundaries (e.g.,...

The classic challenge in writing object-oriented programs (OOP) is finding the right decomposition into classes and objects. This problem arises whenever programmers need to deal with crosscutting concerns. Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) is a well known methodology to overcome this issue by modularizing crosscutting concerns using aspects. Programmers are slowly realizing the importance of A...

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) provides another way of thinking about program structure that allows developers to separate and modularize concerns like crosscutting concerns. These concerns are maintained in aspects that allows to easily maintain both the core and crosscutting concerns. Much research on this area has been done focused on traditional software development. Although little has ...

Monitoring is an important task in managing a Cloud Computing environment. But its implementation may result in added software complexity and altering of the offered cloud services. In this paper we demonstrate a monitoring approach called AOP4CSM (Aspect Oriented Programming for Cloud Service Monitoring) which monitors the qualityof-service parameters and provides fault tolerance to the Softwa...

Aspect-oriented (AO) programming proposes a solution to the crosscutting problem in Object-oriented (OO) programming by supporting the modularization of crosscutting concerns with new composition mechanisms. This paper evaluates the solution through aspect mining two existing Java code-bases and then refactoring crosscutting concerns found in them into aspects using AspectJ. It documents the pr...

An aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is for modularising a crosscutting concern so that it can be easily attached and detached to/from software. Because of this functionality, AOP is one of key technologies for enabling evolvable software. However, critics have been mentioning that AOP makes modular reasoning difficult since join points where an aspect and an object are connected to each other ...

Several authors have debated the modularity and obliviousness of aspects in AOP and the links between these two notions, noting that obliviousness is not always desirable or achievable. Many proposals have appeared, mainly in the context of AspectJ, to mitigate these issues by restricting upfront, or "inferring" and documenting, where aspects can apply. As pointed out, sacrificing certain facet...

—As the Internet users increase, the need to protect web servers from malicious users has become a priority in many organizations and companies. Writing crosscutting functions in complex software should take advantage of the modularity offered by new software development approaches. With Aspect­Oriented Programming (AOP), separating concerns when designing an application fosters reuse, paramete...