Impact of aspect-orientation on the reliability of decentralized multi-agent system

Aspect oriented programming (AOP) provides separation of concerns and encapsulates crosscutting concerns into separate modules called ´aspects´, thereby enhancing the software quality. This paper presents the impacts of aspect-orientation on the reliability of a decentralized multi agent system (MAS). We compared aspect-oriented and object-oriented versions of the same application in order to explore to what extent each implementation provides a reliable system. We evaluated both versions of the system and found that the aspect-oriented design is more reliable as it has brought a loosely coupled and less complex system.