N degrees of separation: multi-dimensional separation of concerns
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering
Role model designs and implementations with aspect-oriented programming
Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Acme: architectural description of component-based systems
Foundations of component-based systems
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
An infrastructure for the rapid development of XML-based architecture description languages
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Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond
Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond
Role Modeling for Agent System Analysis, Design, and Implementation
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Software Architecture in Practice
ViewPoints: meaningful relationships are difficult!
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
PRISMA: Towards Quality, Aspect Oriented and Dynamic Software Architectures
QSIC '03 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Quality Software
Software Systems Architecture: Working With Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives
Software Systems Architecture: Working With Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives
A comprehensive approach for the development of modular software architecture description languages
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A Dynamic Component and Aspect-Oriented Platform
The Computer Journal
Multi-Dimensional Separation of Concerns in Requirements Engineering
RE '05 Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering
IEEE Software
Composing design patterns: a scalability study of aspect-oriented programming
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
Modeling aspect mechanisms: a top-down approach
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
Reflections on architectural connection: seven issues on aspects and ADLs
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Early aspects at ICSE
Enhancing agent-oriented models with aspects
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Quantifying the Effects of Aspect-Oriented Programming: A Maintenance Study
ICSM '06 Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
Exceptions and aspects: the devil is in the details
Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Improving modularity of reflective middleware with aspect-oriented programming
Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Software engineering and middleware
Environments for Multi-Agent Systems: First International Workshop, E4MAS, 2004, New York, NY, July 19, 2004, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in ... / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)
Semantics-based composition for aspect-oriented requirements engineering
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
Aspect-oriented software development
Aspect-oriented software development
A reference architecture for situated multiagent systems
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
On the modular representation of architectural aspects
EWSA'06 Proceedings of the Third European conference on Software Architecture
Applying the ATAM to an architecture for decentralized control of a transportation system
QoSA'06 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Quality of Software Architectures
Architectural aspects of architectural aspects
EWSA'05 Proceedings of the 2nd European conference on Software Architecture
Aspectizing multi-agent systems: from architecture to implementation
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems III
On the impact of aspectual decompositions on design stability: an empirical study
ECOOP'07 Proceedings of the 21st European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
View composition in multiagent architectures
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
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Experience with building an architecture for an industrial Automatic Guided Vehicle Transportation System (AGVTS) shows that several essential concerns crosscut the architectural views. To cope with this, a stronger separation proved to be necessary, i.e. using different views for different concerns. In practice this was difficult, since the support for relations between views is very limited. This makes separation of concerns in views hard, thereby increasing maintenance overhead and reducing reuse capabilities. Our claim is that specifying compositions of views is as important as specifying the views itself. This paper extends a representative architectural description language (xADL) which support for composing structural views, by introducing three relations, namely refinement, mapping, and unification. Improving separation of concerns in views and their explicit composition enhances architecture understandability and changeability. The feasibility of the relations is assessed by redesigning the AGVTS architecture. Based on a real maintenance scenario, we investigate to what extent these explicit compositions lead (or not) to enhanced architectural changeability for evolving the distribution strategy in the AGVTS system.