Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is a programming paradigm that implements crosscutting concerns in a modular way. People have witnessed the prosperity of AOP languages for Java and C++, such as AspectJ and AspectC++, which has propelled AOP to become ...

Metaprogramming is the process of writing computer programs that treat programs as data, enabling them to analyze or transform existing programs or generate new ones. While the concept of metaprogramming has existed for several decades, activities ...

Coping with crosscutting and dynamic features of software systems has significant impacts on software modularity, reusability, adaptability, and maintainability. However, dealing with such features is a tremendous challenge for different software ...

The C++ Standard Template Library (STL) is the most well-known and widely used library that is based on the generic programming paradigm. The STL takes advantage of C++ templates, so it is an extensible, effective but flexible system. Professional C++ ...

In recent years, researches focus on addressing the query bottleneck issue using data cache in the internet-of-things. However, the challenges of this method are how to implement autonomous management of data cache. In this paper, we propose an aspect-...

Cross-cutting concerns are an inherent property of the implementation of non-trivial software systems. Their study led to the development of advanced modularity constructs, usually supported by meta-level frameworks and programming language constructs, ...

Aspect-oriented programming makes possible to express changes in a modular way directly at the level of programming language constructs. This is particularly useful in situations that require explicit change manipulation, such as change reapplication to ...

In the context of compiler optimizations, tuning of parameters and selection of algorithms, runtime adaptivity and autotuning are becoming increasingly important, especially due to the complexity of applications, workloads, computing devices and ...

This paper investigates the effect of agents coalitional strategy on their effectiveness using an evaluation approach that causes no alteration of the global systems performance. Cooperation process is thus considered during the execution of a ...

Use case driven modularization improves code comprehension and maintenance and provides another view on software alongside object-oriented modularization. However, approaches enabling use case driven modularization require to modularize code manually. ...

This article presents a software product line (SPL) as a framework to create usability tests for Android applications. This tool enables flexible integration and configuration of field tests, allowing automatic collection of data about user interactions ...

In JavaScript handlers, callbacks are widely used to develop rich responsive and interactive Web applications. However, the dependency among nested callbacks, known as callback hell, can make it difficult to understand and maintain them, which will ...

Usually, Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) languages are an extension of a specific target language (e.g., AspectJ for Java and AspectC++ for C++). This coupling can impose drawbacks such as arbitrary limitations to the aspect language. LARA is a DSL ...

Unauthorized access to personal information represents one of the most important challenges faced by network application developers. The privacy-preserving concept has arisen from the usage of database resources, which sometimes leads to the sharing of ...

In the maintenance of software applications, database evolution is one common difficulty. In object-oriented databases, this process comprises schema evolution and instance adaptation. Both tasks usually require significant effort from programmers and ...

This paper describes MATISSE, a compiler able to translate a MATLAB subset to C targeting embedded systems. MATISSE uses LARA, an aspect-oriented programming language, to specify additional information and transformations to the input MATLAB code, for ...

Extracting business documentation from ever-evolving information systems is a challenging task that requires a lot of effort, focus and technical expertise. Such a documentation provides a detailed overview of the system, lists domain model, operations, ...

Bytecode instrumentation is a widely used technique to implement aspect weaving and dynamic analyses in virtual machines such as the Java virtual machine. Aspect weavers and other instrumentations are usually developed independently and combining them ...

Because of the success of the Internet technologies, traditional standalone applications like Spreadsheet and Drawing

are now provided as Web Applications. These adopt asynchronous programming that provides high responsive user

interactions. At the same ...

The implementation of crosscutting concerns in object-oriented OO systems entails scattering and tangling of code across several components increasing code duplication and making the system harder to comprehend, maintain, evolve and reuse. Therefore, ...