Hi Kevin: There is a piece of work related to your paper that I forgot to mention: Johan Ovlinger's thesis on combining aspects and modules: @PHDTHESIS{johan:thesis, AUTHOR = "Johan Ovlinger", TITLE = "{Combining Aspects and Modules}", SCHOOL = "Northeastern University", YEAR = 2004, NOTE = "197 pages" } and the related paper: @ARTICLE{aspects-modules-2003-bcs, AUTHOR = "Karl J. Lieberherr and David Lorenz and Johan Ovlinger", TITLE = "Aspectual Collaborations -- Combining Modules and Aspects", JOURNAL = "The Computer Journal" , YEAR = "2003", MONTH = "September", VOLUME = 46, NUMBER = 5, PAGES = "542-565", PUBLISHER = "Oxford University Press", NOTE="http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/papers/ac-aspectj-hyperj" } -- Karl