It is becoming increasingly clear that we are entering a new era in systems software. As the age-old tension between structure and performance acquiesces, we can finally venture b...
Software evolution is an inevitable process when developing a system of any notable size and is the most costly stage in the life cycle of a system. Automating parts of this proces...
Mechanisms in AOP (aspect-oriented programming) can be characterized by a JPM (join point model). AOP is effective in unanticipated software evolution because crosscutting concer...
Abstract. Aspect-oriented systems claim to improve modularity by providing explicit mechanisms that allow modularization of concerns which crosscut the object-oriented decompositio...
The unrelenting pace of change that confronts contemporary software developers compels them to make their applications more configurable, flexible, and adaptive. In order to ach...
Ayla Dantas, Joseph W. Yoder, Paulo Borba, Ralph E...