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...

Aspect-orientation can help to separate concerns in software. One of the goals of this separation is to promote flexibility and configurability; this is especially true when constructing program families (and product-lines). This paper introduces a set of principles that instruct in the creation of flexible, configurable, aspect-oriented systems. We illustrate the principles through their appli...

This paper presents a comfortable and customizable persistence framework that supports the access of relational databases from Java applications. In order to keep the effort for implementation low, we show how to benefit from aspect-orientation. The framework has advantages over existing mapping tools: Flexibility is higher as the functionality can be freely designed. We demonstrate flexibility...

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...

In this paper, we examine the notion of functional aspects in context of aspect-oriented refactoring. Treating aspects as functions reduces the potential interactions between aspects significantly. We propose a simple mathematical model that incorporates fundamental properties of aspects and their interactions. Using this model, we show that with regard to refactoring functional aspects are as ...

Every new programming technique makes claims that software engineers want to hear. Such is the case with aspect-oriented programming (AOP). This paper describes a quasi-controlled experiment which compares the evolution of two functionally equivalent programs, developed in two different paradigms. The aim of the study is to explore the claims that software developed with aspect-oriented languag...

Adaptivity in web applications raises several concerns. One demands it to be decoupled from the actual application and at the same time wants to use very domain-specific terms for dividing the audience into groups. Two current trends, aspect-oriented programming and semantic web technologies, fit these requirements like a glove. In this paper, we present the AMACONT web modeling framework and u...

The latest versions of AspectJ, the most popular aspect oriented extension for Java, must cope with the complex changes that occurred in the Java type system, specially with those that introduced type parameters for classes and methods. In this work we study the influence of raw types, i.e. parameterless instantiations of class types, over the semantics of an AspectJ-like language. As a result,...

Over the recent years aspect-oriented programming (AOP) has found increasing interest among researchers in software engineering. Aspects are abstractions which capture and localise cross-cutting concerns. Although persistence has been considered as an aspect of a system aspects in the persistence domain in general and in databases in particular have been largely ignored. This paper brings the n...

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...