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Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development VI

Special Issue on Aspects and Model-Driven Engineering

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5560)

Part of the book sub series: Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (TAOSD)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Special Issue: Aspects and Model-Driven Engineering

    1. Dynamic Weaving of Aspect-Oriented Executable UML Models

      • Lidia Fuentes, Pablo Sánchez
      Pages 1-38
    2. On Language-Independent Model Modularisation

      • Florian Heidenreich, Jakob Henriksson, Jendrik Johannes, Steffen Zschaler
      Pages 39-82
    3. Aspects across Software Life Cycle: A Goal-Driven Approach

      • Nan Niu, Yijun Yu, Bruno González-Baixauli, Neil Ernst, Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite, John Mylopoulos
      Pages 83-110
    4. Aspect-Oriented Model-Driven Software Product Line Engineering

      • Iris Groher, Markus Voelter
      Pages 111-152
    5. Constraint-Based Model Weaving

      • Jules White, Jeff Gray, Douglas C. Schmidt
      Pages 153-190
    6. MATA: A Unified Approach for Composing UML Aspect Models Based on Graph Transformation

      • Jon Whittle, Praveen Jayaraman, Ahmed Elkhodary, Ana Moreira, João Araújo
      Pages 191-237
    7. Model-Driven Theme/UML

      • Andrew Carton, Cormac Driver, Andrew Jackson, Siobhán Clarke
      Pages 238-266
  3. Back Matter

About this book

work for small problems, but it introduces signi?cant accidental complexities when tackling larger problems. Notethattherealchallengehereisnothowtodesignthesystemtotakeap- ticular aspect into account: there is signi?cant design know-how in industry on this and it is often captured in the form of design patterns. Taking into account more than one aspect can be a little harder, but many large scale successful projects in industry provide some evidence that engineers know how di?erent concerns should be handled. The real challenge is reducing the e?ort that the engineerhasto expendwhengrapplingwithmanyinter-dependentconcerns.For example, in a product-line context, when an engineer wants to replace a variant of an aspect used in a system, she should be able to do this cheaply, quickly and safely. Manually weaving every aspect is not an option. Unlike many models used in the sciences, models in software and in lingu- tics have the same nature as the things they model. In software, this provides an opportunity to automatically derive software from its model, that is, to - tomate the weaving process. This requires models to be formal, and the weaving process be described as a program (i.e., an executable meta-model) manipul- ing models to produce a detailed design. The detailed design produced by the weaving process can ultimately be transformed to code or at least test suites.

Keywords

  • MATA
  • UML models
  • Unified Modeling Language (UML)
  • model modularization
  • model weaving
  • model-driven software engineering
  • modeling
  • modularity
  • software architecture
  • software engineering
  • software life cycle

Reviews

From the reviews:

“This collection targets various facets of aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) in the context of model-driven engineering (MDE)--an approach in which models are used to drive the development throughout the entire life cycle of the software. … This systemic approach is still in the research stage, and the book contains these research reports. The book will be of interest to university research teams concerned with aspect orientation.” (Pierre Radulescu-Banu, ACM Computing Reviews, December, 2010)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, The Technion, Haifa, Israel

    Shmuel Katz

  • IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, USA

    Harold Ossher

  • Computer Science Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA

    Robert France

  • IRISA, Université de Rennes 1, Rennes Cedex, France

    Jean-Marc Jézéquel

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