Metaprogramming is the process of writing computer programs that treat programs as data,
enabling them to analyze or transform existing programs or generate new ones. While the …

Develo** distributed applications is a difficult task due to three major problems: the
complexity of programming interprocess communication, the need to support services …

We argue that the software user, the developer, the designer and indeed the application
logic itself all possess invaluable intelligence to gear how software should adapt itself to …

Behavioral reflection is a powerful approach for adapting the behavior of running
applications. In this paper we present and motivate partial behavioral reflection, an …

During the process of develo** and maintaining a complex software system, developers
pose detailed questions about the runtime behavior of the system. Source code views offer …

Driven by the emergence of pervasive computing and the increasing need for self-managed
systems, many approaches have been proposed for building software that can dynamically …

Reuse and integration of heterogeneous software parts are promises of Component-Based
Software Development. However, current industrial approaches suffer from a limited support …

In this position paper we present a conceptual vision of adaptation, a key feature of
autonomic systems. We put some stress on the role of control data and argue how some of …

Nowadays, application developers have to deal with increasingly variable execution
contexts, requiring the creation of applications able to adapt themselves autonomously to …

Dynamic code evolution is a technique to update a program while it is running. In an object-
oriented language such as Java, this can be seen as replacing a set of classes by new …