Rapid-Prototyping of Adaptive Component-Based Systems Using Runtime Aspectual Interactions

Aspect-oriented mechanisms have been widely exploited at the programming-level. Nevertheless, little has been achieved at the architectural level, and this despite the potential benefits to gain. These benefits include the promotion of transparency, rapid-prototyping,correctness and adaptability. This contribution aims at filling this gap. We first put forward an intuitive event-driven architectural conceptualization that promotes behavioral rule-centric transient interactions.Towards non-intrusive and runtime adaptability of such exogenous interactions, we then abstractly endow them with aspect-oriented mechanisms. Finally, a compliant foundation with rapid-prototyping capabilities is proposed. It is based on leveraging the distributed rewriting-logic based Maude language.In particular, capitalizing on Maude reflection, we perform inherent behavioral interactions as suitable advices and dynamically weave them on respective components through interfaces.