The integration of aspect oriented modeling approaches with model-driven engineering process achieved through their direct transformation to aspect-oriented code is expected to enhance the software development from many perspectives. This study aims to assess the existing UML-based aspect-oriented modeling techniques from the perspective of their suitability with regards to integration into mod...

An essential motivation behind concurrent object-oriented programming is to exploit the software reuse potential of object-oriented features in the development of concurrent systems. Early attempts to introduce concurrency to object-oriented languages uncovered interferences between object-oriented and concurrency features that limited the extent to which the benefits of object-oriented program...

Requirements engineering techniques that explicitly recognize the importance of clearly identifying and treating crosscutting concerns are called Aspect-oriented Requirements Engineering Approaches (AORE approaches). The emergence of aspect-oriented programming languages has raised the explicit need to identify crosscutting concerns already during the analysis phase. Besides this observation, t...

The success of large-scale software systems depends on how accurate the huge amount of requirements is elicited and analysed by software engineers. Requirements engineering provides suitable approaches to define requirements of such systems in a systematic way. For example, viewpoint and object-oriented approaches have adequate mechanisms to reach these purposes. Nevertheless, the crosscutting ...

Service-oriented computing develops applications by composing services. In software product families, applications are developed by reusing existing assets. Hence, the approaches seem to have several similarities, although there are also differences. In this position paper, we discuss modeling methods in these two approaches. We conclude with directions for future studies for combining modeling...

This paper explores performance issues for several prominent approaches to parallel dense Cholesky fattotition. The primary focus is on issues that arise when blocking techniques are integrated into parallel factorization approaches to improve data reuse in the memory hierarchy. We f&t consider panel-oriented approaches, where sets of contiguous columns are manipulated as single units. These me...

28 We examined developmental programming studies that reported sex-specific effects 29 published between 2012 and 2014, and examined whether the authors reported a 30 statistical approach to explicitly test whether the effect of treatment differed between the 31 sexes, e.g., a sex by treatment interaction term. Less than half of the studies that reported 32 sex-specific effects described explic...

The planning of large infrastructure projects such as inner-city subway tracks is a highly collaborative process in which numerous experts from different domains are involved. While performing the planning task, widely differing scales have to be taken into consideration, ranging from the kilometer scale for the general routing of the track down to the centimeter scale for the detailed design o...

Integrating concurrent and object-oriented programming has been an active research topic since the late 1980s. The majority of approaches have taken a sequential object-oriented language and made it concurrent. A few approaches have taken a concurrent language and made it object-oriented. The most important of this latter class is the Ada 95 language which is an extension to the object-based co...