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Weaving the Fabric of the Control Loop through Aspects

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Self-Organizing Architectures (SOAR 2009)

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Self-adaptive systems are systems that are able to autonomously adapt to changing circumstances without human intervention. A number of frameworks exist that can ease the design and development of such systems by providing a generic architecture that can be reused across multiple application domains. In this paper, we study the applicability of aspect-oriented programming (AOP) to see where and how AOP can provide an interesting alternative for implementing parts of the architecture of self-adaptive frameworks. In particular, we relate two existing self-adaptive frameworks to the body of work on aspect-oriented programming techniques for self-adaptation. We present an aspect-oriented architecture for self-adaptive systems to show how AOP can be used for framework customization, event brokering and event aggregation. The potential of AOP for efficiency is shown by evaluating the architecture in a case study on decentralized traffic monitoring. Finally, we explore the potential and challenges of AOP for building scalable and decentralized self-adaptive systems.

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    Robrecht Haesevoets, Eddy Truyen, Tom Holvoet & Wouter Joosen

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  1. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

    Danny Weyns

  2. George Manson University, Fairfax, USA

    Sam Malek

  3. Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, CT2 7NF, Canterbury, Kent, UK

    Rogério de Lemos

  4. Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden

    Jesper Andersson

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Haesevoets, R., Truyen, E., Holvoet, T., Joosen, W. (2010). Weaving the Fabric of the Control Loop through Aspects. In: Weyns, D., Malek, S., de Lemos, R., Andersson, J. (eds) Self-Organizing Architectures. SOAR 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6090. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14412-7_3

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