The ability to evolve software rapidly and reliably is a major challenge for software
engineering. In this introductory chapter we start with a historic overview of the research …

CONTEXT: Model-driven code generation is being increasingly applied to enhance software
development from perspectives of maintainability, extensibility and reusability. However …

Software product lines (SPLs) enable modular, large-scale reuse through a software
architecture addressing multiple core and varying features. To reap the benefits of SPLs …

There is a growing consensus that crosscutting concerns harm code quality. An example of
a crosscutting concern is a functional requirement whose implementation is distributed …

Although Web services are becoming business-critical components, they are often deployed
with critical software bugs that can be maliciously explored. Web vulnerability scanners …

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 …

After more than 10 years, Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is still a controversial idea.
While the concept of aspects appeals to everyone's intuitions, concrete AOP solutions often …

Multi-agent systems (MASs) include multiple interacting agents within an environment to
provide a solution for complex systems that cannot be easily solved with individual agents or …

Exception handling mechanisms are intended to support the development of robust
software. However, the implementation of such mechanisms with aspect-oriented (AO) …

Providing high-quality software in the face of uncertainties, such as dealing with new user
needs, changing availability of resources, and faults that are difficult to predict, raises …