Miguel A. Pérez

Aspect modelling at architecture design

The increment of the complexity of systems requires new techniques that allow manipulating it adequately. Software architecture is becoming an important part of software design, which helps developers to handle the complexity of large systems. In addition, the management of the evolution as well as the maintenance of complex systems are two of most important problems to be solved by software engineering. Several solutions have been considered, one of them being the separation of concerns. These concepts have been extended along the life cycle and thus, Aspect Oriented Software Development (AOSD) arose. In this paper the architectural design phase and Aspect Oriented concepts are considered jointly. A proposal introducing aspects modelling in the architecture design phase is presented. The research is based on the combined use of a conventional architecture description language and an exogenous co-ordination model. When new requirements are going to be included in the system, the proposal provides the required steps to allow its evolution and maintenance by specifying an Aspect Oriented Architecture, which will permit us to change the system easily.

AspectCCM: an aspect-oriented extension of the CORBA Component Model

Component based software engineering (CBSE) and aspect oriented programming (AOP) are two disciplines of software engineering which have been generating a great deal of interest in recent years. From the CBSE point of view, the building of applications becomes a process of assembling independent and reusable software modules called components. However, the necessary dependency description among components and its latter implementation causes the appearance of crosscutting, a problem that AOP resolves adequately. Aspect orientated programming allows programmers to express in a separate form the different aspects that intervene in an application. These aspects are composed later adequately. This paper analyses the problem of crosscutting that is produced during component development at one of the last component-based development platforms, as is the CORBA Component Model (CCM), and proposes an extension for this platform. This CCM extension has been named AspectCCM.

AspectLEDA: extending an ADL with aspectual concepts

When increasing the complexity of software systems new techniques allowing for their adequate manipulation are required. In the last ten years, AOSD has been proposed to manage the systems complexity by considering concepts of AO programming extended along the software life cycle. The suitability of the existence of an AO architectural design appears when AO concepts are extended to the whole life cycle. In order to adequately specify the AO design, Aspect-Oriented ADLs are needed. In this paper AspectLEDA, an ADL to support architectural descriptions treating aspects, is presented.

12th Workshop for PhD Students in Object Oriented Systems

The “Ph Doctoral Students Object-Oriented Systems” (PHDOOS) workshop has become an established annual meeting of PhD students in object-orientation. The main objective of the workshop is to offer an opportunity for PhD students to meet and share their research experiences, to discover commonalities in research and studentship, and to foster a collaborative environment for joint problem-solving. PhD students from both industry and academia are encouraged to show their research in order to ensure a broad, unconfined discussion.

Workshop for PhD Students in Object Oriented Programming

The objective of the 13th edition of Ph Doctoral Students in Object-Oriented Systems workshop (PHDOOS) was to offer an opportunity for PhD students to meet and share their research experiences, and to discover commonalities in research and student ship. In this way, the participants may receive insightful comment about their research, learn about related work and initiate future research collaborations. So, PHDOOS is a gauge to detect hot spots in current lines of research and new avenues of work in objects-oriented concepts.