Aspect Oriented Operating Systems

We would like to argue that building aspect oriented operating systems is a potential technology needs and promising solutions that can make a significant impact on the way we deign and produce software in the coming future. At the same time, the open, unresolved issues on the basic architecture and design of aspect oriented operating systems puts such adventure beyond the scope of today's short term profit driven research and development programs. Separation of concerns is one of the crucial principles in software design. It is in the heart of software usability and re-usability. Success of object-oriented programming is largely due to the structured way in which it enables to separate the concerns, decompose the deferent concerns and at the same time protect their integrity. Success of object-oriented programming languages lead to a whole culture of object oriented software development and finally, research on objects oriented operating systems and realization of such systems. AOP-Aspect oriented programming has already closed the gap and has matured into AOSD-Aspect-oriented software development. Here we would like to support our proposal why we believe that efforts should be put into exploring the potentials of designing aspect oriented operating systems. • Applications that can mostly benefit from aspect orientation are those that exhibit a high degree of crosscutting concerns. Operating systems are notorio us of their problematic structure due to the high degree of crosscutting concerns. • Distributed systems –most of the challenges listed on this call for white paper proposal such as partial failure, causal ordering, dynamic service partition, QoS control, multi-level distributed resource management are all aspectual properties-hence a distributed system software design that localizes and encapsulates these aspects has a potential to ease the challenge in this direction. • Future operating systems would ne ed to exhibit a higher degree of adaptability. Many features that need to be adaptable are aspectual in nature; with current state of the arts, their implementation crosscuts other features and this is a curial barrier for adaptability. • Reflection – Growing need in intelligent operation systems that wisely manage and adapt to new policies can be practically realized only if implementation of these policies is localized and support conditions and intelligence under which such policies can be evoked. • Integration of real-world physical constrains – Operating systems often hide the detailed implementation of their services. This is a double edge sword – a specific real-world application may need …