On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules
Communications of the ACM
Information hiding interfaces for aspect-oriented design
Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Modular Software Design with Crosscutting Interfaces
IEEE Software
Composing aspect models with graph transformations
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Early aspects at ICSE
Joinpoint inference from behavioral specification to implementation
ECOOP'07 Proceedings of the 21st European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
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A key problem in software development is producing systems that are maintainable even as the concerns at play evolve. Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) seeks to foster maintainability by isolating the specifications of cross-cutting concerns, allowing them to be modified in relative isolation from the rest of the system. Research in aspect-oriented modeling (AOM) aims to develop a model-layer analogue of AOP, allowing integration with accepted modeling practices. Aspects usually allow developers of the primary model to be oblivious to the aspects that modify the primary model; because of this, aspects can be closely coupled to potentially transient details of the primary model. When those details change, the aspects that depend on them may no longer have the desired effect. In this paper, we introduce model interfaces as a solution to the problem of obliviousness by extending a graph-transformational approach to AOM.