A characteristic of aspect-oriented programming, as embodied in AspectJ, is the use of advice to incrementally modify the behavior of a program. An advice declaration specifies a...
Abstract. Short cut fusion is a particular program transformation technique which uses a single, local transformation — called the foldr-build rule — to remove certain intermed...
Most foundational models for global computing have focused on the spatial dimension of computations, however global computing requires also new ways of thinking about the temporal ...
Gian Luigi Ferrari, Eugenio Moggi, Rosario Puglies...
Abstract. Using mobile agent systems, cooperative distributed applications that run over the Internet can be constructed flexibly. However, there are some problems: it is difficul...
A number of approaches have been proposed to achieve separation of concerns. Although all these approaches form suitable candidates for separating cross-cutting concerns in a syste...
This article investigates the security problems raised by the use of proxy-based runtime meta-object protocols (MOPs) for Java and provides an approach for making meta-level code t...
, are to address what we perceive as the most pressing shortcomings of current reflective middleware platforms. First, performance: in the worst case, this needs to be on a par wit...
Gordon S. Blair, Geoff Coulson, Michael Clarke, Ni...
Abstract. We present a general technique to support reflection in C++, exploiting template metaprogramming techniques. The technique is used for building an object interface to rel...