Design patterns offer flexible solutions to common problems in software development.
Recent studies have shown that several design patterns involve crosscutting concerns …

Although one of the main promises of aspect-oriented (AO) programming techniques is to
promote better software changeability than object-oriented (OO) techniques, there is no …

Pattern composition has been shown as a challenge to applying design patterns in real
software systems. One of the main problems is that multiple design patterns in a system are …

One of the main promises of aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is to promote improved
modularization of crosscutting concerns, thereby enhancing the software stability in the …

Over the last few years, a growing number of studies have explored how Aspect-Oriented
Programming (AOP) might impact software maintainability. Most of the studies use coupling …

Industry 4.0 is expected to deliver significant gains in productivity by assimilating several
technological advancements including cloud computing, the Internet-of-Things, and smart …

Agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) paradigm represents an interesting means of
analyzing, designing and building complex software systems quite suitable to new software …

Software engineers of multi‐agent systems (MASs) are faced with different concerns such as
autonomy, adaptation, interaction, collaboration, learning, and mobility, which are …

While it is well-known that crosscutting concerns occur in many software projects, little is
known on how aspect-oriented programming and in particular AspectJ have been used. In …

Manifestation of crosscutting concerns in software systems is often an indicative of design
modularity flaws and further design instabilities as those systems evolve. Without proper …