9th International Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Modeling (Report)

This report summarizes the outcomes of the 9th Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Modeling (AOM) held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems \u2013 MoDELS 2006 \u2013 in Genoa, Italy, on the 1st of October 2006. The workshop brought together approximately 25 researchers and practitioners from two communities: aspect-oriented software development and software model engineering. It provided a forum for discussing the state of the art in modeling crosscutting concerns at different stages of the software development process: requirements elicitation and analysis, software architecture, detailed design, and mapping to aspect-oriented programming constructs. This paper gives an overview of the accepted submissions and summarizes the results of the different discussion groups. Papers and presentation slides of the workshop are available at http://www.aspect-modeling.org/

Identification of Crosscutting in Software Design

The identification of crosscutting is a prerequisite for applying aspect-oriented techniques in software development. We present an operationalization of the definition of crosscutting to support this identification. We use matrices to represent the relation between design elements at different levels of abstraction. We present some case studies about the identification of crosscutting concerns in order to illustrate the application of our approach. In particular, we apply the approach to the identification of crosscutting in some of the GoF design patterns