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Dynamic Adaptation of Aspect-Oriented Components

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Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE 2007)

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Current works address self-adaptability of software architectures to build more autonomous and flexible systems. However, most of these works only perform adaptations at configuration-level: a component is adapted by being replaced with a new one. The state of the replaced component is lost and related components can undergo undesirable changes. This paper presents a generic solution to design components that are capable of supporting runtime adaptation, taking into account that component type changes must be propagated to its instances. The adaptation is performed in a decentralized and autonomous way, in order to cope with the increasing need for building heterogeneous and autonomous systems. As a result, each component type manages its instances and each instance applies autonomously the changes. Moreover, our proposal uses aspect-oriented components to benefit from their reuse and maintenance, and it is based on MOF and Reflection concepts to benefit from the high abstraction level they provide.

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  1. Department of Information Systems and Computation, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain

    Cristóbal Costa & José Ángel Carsí

  2. Department of Organization and Information Structure, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Ctra. Valencia, km7, 28051 Madrid, Spain

    Jennifer Pérez

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Costa, C., Pérez, J., Carsí, J.Á. (2007). Dynamic Adaptation of Aspect-Oriented Components. In: Schmidt, H.W., Crnkovic, I., Heineman, G.T., Stafford, J.A. (eds) Component-Based Software Engineering. CBSE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4608. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73551-9_4

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