as putin regained the power in russia, the situation gave a second chance to this country to avoid both the west and the benefits of convergence with its foreign policy and regional and trans-regional equations. this can take advantages from other side. approach of russia to divergence and independence with the west will increase level of russian hegemony on international arena. the main questi...

The introduction of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) can affect performance in a negative way. This exacerbates the application of SOA to systems for bulk data processing. This paper describes specific aspects of Service-Oriented Architectures that impact performance particularly. It discusses several approaches to these issues that are currently established and motivates the need for a fr...

Aspect-orientation provides a new way of modularization by clearly separating crosscutting concerns from non-crosscutting ones. While aspect-orientation originally has emerged at the programming level, it now stretches also over other development phases. There are, for example, already several proposals to Aspect-Oriented Modeling (AOM), most of them pursuing distinguished goals, providing diff...

The QAOOSE'2005 workshop brought together, for a full day, researchers working on several aspects related to quantitative evaluation of software artifacts developed with the object-oriented paradigm and related technologies. Ideas and experiences were shared and discussed. This report includes a summary of the technical presentations and subsequent discussions raised by them. Nine out of fourte...

In aspect-oriented model driven engineering (AOMDE), a software design model consists of a primary model that describes the business logic of the application and a set of aspect models each of which describes a crosscutting software feature. The complete design is realized by composing the primary model with the aspect models. A variety of AOMDE approaches are possible depending on how the prin...

Concern-oriented development has been of significant interest to the software engineering community since the early formulation of its importance by Dijkstra and Parnas. Many different approaches have emerged since then, and continue to emerge, which support developers when they need to reason about and make changes to code in terms of the concerns that govern the system. While initially much w...

Understanding complex behavior requires a multidisplinary eeort from the neu-rosciences, psychology, behavioral biology, and computer science. This paper gives an overview of the current state of theoretical thinking in the eld. The focus is on a behavior{oriented approach to cognition, i.e., not so much on the mental representations themselves, but on the behaviors that do require these repres...

This paper is about the information-theoretic foundations upon which useful explanatory and predictive models of dynamic geographic phenomena can be based. It traces the development over the last decade or so of these foundations, from sequences of temporal snapshots, through object life histories, to event chronicles. A crucial ontological distinction is drawn between “things” and “happenings”...

Current temporal and spatiotemporal information system technology is based on the snapshot metaphor, where the dynamic world is imagined as a temporal sequence of snapshots. This imposes limitations on the representations and reasoning capabilities of such systems. In particular, it is not possible using temporal snapshots to explicitly model events, processes, and actions. This abstract summar...

This report carries out a study that is based on literature of the state-of-the-art in Aspect-Oriented Design Approaches. The goal of this work is to position these design approaches within the full life-cycle of a software engineering process that encompasses requirements analysis, architecture design, detailed design, implementation, maintenance, evolution, etc. The study takes on the form of...