ASPECT-ORIENTATION IN MODELLING: LESSONS LEARNED

Ella Roubtsova

2011

Abstract

Model-driven software engineering community faces the problems related to the growing complexity of system models and their rapid evolution. These problems are similar to the problems of programming. Driven by the ideas of Aspect-Oriented Programming many modelling techniques were revised in attempts to find their ways to deal with model complexity and evolution. This paper presents an analysis of existing semantic groups of modelling approaches, their goals, pros and cons, advantages and restrictions. It is aimed to show the deep reason of the fact that particular composition semantics combined with the elegant idea of aspect weaving leads to heavy verification procedures after any change in the AOM model. This analysis reveals the elements of modelling semantics that simplify the verification procedures in AOM.

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Roubtsova E. (2011). ASPECT-ORIENTATION IN MODELLING: LESSONS LEARNED . In Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD, ISBN 978-989-8425-68-3, pages 13-24. DOI: 10.5220/0004458100130024


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@conference{bmsd11,
author={Ella Roubtsova},
title={ASPECT-ORIENTATION IN MODELLING: LESSONS LEARNED},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD,},
year={2011},
pages={13-24},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004458100130024},
isbn={978-989-8425-68-3},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD,
TI - ASPECT-ORIENTATION IN MODELLING: LESSONS LEARNED
SN - 978-989-8425-68-3
AU - Roubtsova E.
PY - 2011
SP - 13
EP - 24
DO - 10.5220/0004458100130024