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The principles of crosscutting concern separation and composition have been used by the AspectOriented Development Community in order to solve the problems of tangling and scattering. In this work we present a proposal for integrating crosscutting concerns during the requirements engineering process. This approach uses goal models and the concepts defined in aspect-oriented languages to provide...

Although one of the main promises of aspect-oriented (AO) programming techniques is to promote better software changeability than objectoriented (OO) techniques, there is no empirical evidence on their efficacy to prolong design stability in realistic development scenarios. For instance, no investigation has been performed on the effectiveness of AO decompositions to sustain overall system modu...

This SCP special collects articles that make contributions to the foundations of aspectoriented programming (AOP). Aspects have been developed over the last 10 years to facilitate the modularization of crosscutting concerns, i.e., concerns that crosscut with the primary modularization of a program. This special issue further continues the efforts of the annual FOAL workshop (Foundations of Aspe...

In AORE, a conflict occurs when two or more crosscutting concerns i.e aspects having the same priority contribute negatively to each other, need to be composed in the same match point. Conflict resolution is a process that establishes a critical trade-off among such kind of aspects. So, the conflict resolution process is a compulsory process and need to achieve it. Over the last few years, seve...

Statecharts are a tool to model the reactive behavior of an object or system. Statecharts can be extended to execute on separate machines and coordinate with each other to achieve complex reactive behavior. We propose using a framework of classes to take statechart diagrams and make them executable on separate machines to handle pervasive computing concerns.

When performing development tasks, such as modifications and debugging, developers must often understand and manipulate source code that crosscuts a software system's structure. These tasks are made more difficult by limitations of the two approaches currently used to present crosscutting structure: tree views and structure diagrams. Tree views force the developer to manually synthesize informa...

Typical programming languages allow only a single decomposition of a program into source files. This results in concerns that are difficult to work with because they cut across the primary decomposition. Current development environments do not provide adequate support for working with crosscutting structure because multiple tools are required to perform even simple explorations, forcing the dev...

Persistence is a common application requirement that is usually taken into account when the program is being developed. Different emerging techniques following the Separation of Concerns principle are focused on detaching crosscutting concerns, like persistence, from the main application code. Although this is a profitable principle, existing tools lack two main features: runtime adaptability a...

Cloud computing technologyhas opened an avenue tomeet the critical need to securely share distributedresourcesandwebservices,andespeciallythosethatbelongtoclientswhohavesensitive dataandapplications.However,implementingcrosscuttingconcernsforcloud-basedapplicationsis achallenge.ThischallengestemsfromthenatureofdistributedWeb-basedtechnologyar...