The aim of this course is to compare different research approaches that address this problem in order to come up with a clear overview of the similarities and differences between the approaches, to see how they could be combined, what the most interesting future research problems are, ...
To achieve this, pairs of students each have to study 2 approaches. In the week of February 15, a workshop will be held at EMN, where each pair will give a presentation of approx. 1 hour, introducing the two approaches and making a comparison. In between these presentations and after all presentations have finished a general discussion will be held to make one general comparison. In order for me to prepare this general discussion, all pairs of students should send me their slides in electronic format by February 7.
Topics
Below the eight groups of two topics to compare are described. As agreed on, by
November 27, I need a list stating who will do which comparison. Each
comparison should be carried out by an international group of two students.
Reading guidelines
Here are some guidelines stating which papers can best be read first for each
topic. A lot of these papers are on the referred web-site. Others are in OOPSLA
or ECOOP proceedings or in other books that should also be available at EMN. If
you have any problems getting any of these references, please contact me.
To learn about AOP it is best to first read the introductory paper: Aspect-Oriented Programming by Gregor Kiczales, John Lamping, Anurag Mendhekar, Chris Maeda, Cristina Videira Lopes, Jean-Marc Loingtier and John Irwin, in proceedings of the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP97), Finland. Springer-Verlag LNCS 1241. June 1997. (It's also on the web). Also take a look at the slides and speaker notes of an invited talk about AOP.
Read papers 1 and 4 of the recommended initial reading. You shouldn't try to understand all the theoretical details, but rather understand the ideas and principles.
To learn about adaptive programming there's a reading guide. Read the first two papers. Note that the third paper there is considered a different topic for this course (APPCs) and shouldn't be read by people only looking at Adaptive Programming.
First read the paper "Solving the modeling problems of object-oriented languages by composing multiple aspects using composition filters" which can be found here. Also read the overview paper The Composition-Filters Object Model by Lodewijk Bergmans.
Read the papers: "Catalysis -- rigorous component-based development" and "Models and Code: the connection".