The ability to evolve software rapidly and reliably is a major challenge for software
engineering. In this introductory chapter we start with a historic overview of the research …

All network devices must parse packet headers to decide how packets should be processed.
A 64× 10Gb/s Ethernet switch must parse one billion packets per second to extract fields …

Although one of the main promises of aspect-oriented (AO) programming techniques is to
promote better software changeability than object-oriented (OO) techniques, there is no …

Implicit invocation (II) and aspect-oriented (AO) languages provide related but distinct
mechanisms for separation of concerns. II languages have explicitly announced events that …

In this paper, we discuss the limitations of the current syntactic composition mechanisms in
aspect-oriented requirements engineering (AORE). We highlight that such composition …

This paper proposes Archface, an interface mechanism for bridging the gap between
architectural design and its implementation. Archface, which encapsulates design essence …

Through implicit invocation, procedures are called without explicitly referencing them.
Implicit announcement adds to this implicitness by not only keeping implicit which …

Single-language runtime systems, in the form of Java virtual machines, are widely deployed
platforms for executing untrusted mobile code. These runtimes provide some of the features …

Modularization in process models is a method to cope with the inherent complexity in such
models (eg, model size reduction). Modularization is capable to increase the quality, the …

Since its inception in 1996, aspect-oriented programming (AOP) has been believed to
reduce the effort required to maintain software systems by replacing cross-cutting code with …