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Security breaches seldom occur because of faulty security mechanisms. Often times, security mechanisms are incorrectly incorporated in an application which allows them to be bypassed resulting in a security breach. Methodologies are needed for incorporating security mechanisms in an application and assessing whether the resulting system is indeed secure. We propose one such methodology for desi...

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Communication Connector private Channel c; public Producer(Channel c) { this.c = c; c.out(d); } public doSomething() { some calculations... further calculations... } } class Consumer { private Channel c; public Consumer(Channel c) { this.c = c;

Aspect oriented design (AOD) research is fragmented. Barriers to AOD adoption are, in part, due to the fragmented nature of AOD research. Individually, many approaches provide elegant solutions to subsets of particular key issues which relate to AOD. Collectively, a significant set of these issues are addressed. We propose integrating existing AOD approaches through a generic AOD process. It is...

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Reporters: Shigeru Chiba Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Theo D’Hondt Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Examiners: Nancy Hitschfeld Assistant Professor, Universidad de Chile, Chile Éric Monfroy Professor, Université de Nantes, France Jacques Noyé Assistant Professor, École des Mines de Nantes, France Gustavo Rossi Professor, Universidad Nacional de La Plat...