As aspect-oriented programming techniques move into mainstream use, it is likely that more software developers will be modeling systems with aspect-oriented features using the Unified Modeling Language. And with the Object Management Group considering revised standards for UML 2.0, it is an appropriate time to consider UML standards for aspect-oriented elements. This paper considers how aspect-...

Aspect-oriented middleware is a promising technology for the realisation of dynamic reconfiguration in heterogeneous distributed systems. However, like other dynamic reconfiguration approaches, AO-middleware-based reconfiguration requires that the consistency of the system is maintained across reconfigurations. AO-middleware-based reconfiguration is an ongoing research topic and several consist...

In this paper we describe the tool we plan to build in order to show the feasibility of aspect oriented design and demonstrate the advantages that it implies This technique allows one to independently specify cross cutting concerns and functionnal features of a system The tool would then allow the weaving of the aspects on the model one after the other creating a design model that would comply ...

Superpositions are useful relationships between programs or components in component based approaches to software development. We study the application of invasive superposition morphisms between components in the architecture design language CommUnity. This kind of morphism allows us to characterise component extension relationships, and in particular, serves an important purpose for enhancing ...

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) has emerged recently as a language concept for expressing cross-cutting concerns, mainly in object-oriented software. Since then, the concept has been applied to a wide variety of other contexts. In this paper, we explore some cross-cutting concerns for parallel programs of reactive systems: we propose a notion of aspect and a weaving mechanism, in a core langu...

Effective RE must reconcile the need to achieve separation of concerns with the need to satisfy broadly scoped requirements and constraints. Techniques such as use cases and viewpoints help achieve separation of stakeholders' concerns but ensuring their consistency with global requirements and constraints is largely unsupported. In this paper we build on recent work that has emerged from the as...

In this paper we initiate a discussion of a possible process to compose crosscutting concerns with the concerns they cut across. This process should be regarded as a task of an approach to manage concerns at the requirements level. The main concepts behind this process are those of match point, conflicting aspect, dominant aspect and composition rule. A match point is where one or more crosscut...

ion over Non-Local Object Information in Aspect-Oriented Programming Using Path Expression Pointcuts A Case of Object Persistence

Context-aware applications adapt their behavior depending on changes in their environment context. Programming such applications in a modular way requires to modularize the global context into more specific contexts and attach specific behavior to these contexts. This is reminiscent of aspects and has led to the notion of context-aware aspects. This paper revisits this notion of context-aware a...

This report summarizes the outcome of the 14th Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Modeling (AOM), as part of the 12th International Conference onModel Driven Engineering Languages and Systems – MoDELS 2009 – in Denver, Colorado, USA, on the 4th of October 2009. The workshop brought together researchers and practitioners from two communities: aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) and software mod...