Mathematician Claude Shannon was born in Michigan in 1916 and died in 2001. The approach to information and communication he laid out in his groundbreaking paper A Mathematical Theory of Communication, published in the Bell System Technical Journal in 1948, and republished virtually unchanged in the pamphlet The Mathematical Theory of Communication he wrote with Warren Weaver the following year...

In this paper, we propose an extension of the JAsCo aspectoriented programming language for declaratively specifying a protocol fragment pointcut. The proposed pointcut language is equivalent to a finite state machine. Advices are attached to every transition specified in the pointcut protocol. We claim that stateful aspects benefit from run-time weaving and therefore introduce the JAsCo run-ti...