Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development

Abstract

It is our pleasure to welcome you to the 9th ACM International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD.10). This volume comprises the final versions of the research and industry papers presented at the AOSD.10 conference held in Rennes and Saint-Malo, France, March 15-19, 2010. The proceedings also contain the abstracts of the keynote presentations. AOSD.10 is the ninth edition in a series of annual AOSD conferences. The series started in 2002 in Enschede (The Netherlands), followed by Boston, Massachusetts (USA) in 2003, Lancaster (UK) in 2004, Chicago, Illinois (USA) in 2005, Bonn (Germany) in 2006, Vancouver (Canada) in 2007, Brussels (Belgium) in 2008, Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) in 2009 and now Rennes and Saint-Malo, France in 2010. This year's conference continues the tradition of being the premier forum for presentation of research and industry results on leading-edge issues in aspect-oriented software development. The conference reflects the remarkable growth in scale and complexity of the systems now being developed, where modularity and abstraction are essential, not only in code, but across many kinds of software artifacts. Following its predecessors, its focus has been broadening to include other activities of software and systems development, such as software and systems specification, architecture, and adaptation. The mission of this edition is to fulfill the needs of heterogeneous applications and environments, and to identify new directions for future research and development. AOSD.10 gives academia and industry a unique opportunity to share perspectives with others who are interested in the various forms of modularity and abstraction.