Aspects of Assembly and Cascaded Aspects of Assembly: Logical and Temporal Properties

TL;DR

This paper introduces Aspect of Assembly (AAs), a mechanism for rapid, consistent self-adaptation in dynamic computing environments using aspect-oriented programming, enabling flexible and efficient software modifications.

Contribution

It presents a novel aspect-oriented approach for self-adaptation that ensures fast, independent, and manageable adaptations in highly dynamic systems.

Findings

Adaptation process is fast and duration is controllable.

Adaptations are independent due to logical merging mechanism.

Supports mono or multi-cycle weaving for high variability management.

Abstract

Highly dynamic computing environments, like ubiquitous and pervasive computing environments, require frequent adaptation of applications. This has to be done in a timely fashion, and the adaptation process must be as fast as possible and mastered. Moreover the adaptation process has to ensure a consistent result when finished whereas adaptations to be implemented cannot be anticipated at design time. In this paper we present our mechanism for self-adaptation based on the aspect oriented programming paradigm called Aspect of Assembly (AAs). Using AAs: (1) the adaptations process is fast and its duration is mastered; (2) adaptations' entities are independent of each other thanks to the weaver logical merging mechanism; and (3) the high variability of the software infrastructure can be managed using a mono or multi-cycle weaving approach.