Diversity is prevalent in modern software systems to facilitate adapting the software to
customer requirements or the execution environment. Diversity has an impact on all phases …

Assertions play an important role in the construction of robust software. Their use in
programming languages dates back to the 1970s. Eiffel, an object-oriented programming …

A" refinement" is a functionality addition to a software project that can affect multiple
dispersed implementation entities (functions, classes, etc.). In this paper, we examine large …

We present MultiJava, a backward-compatible extension to Java supporting open classes
and symmetric multiple dispatch. Open classes allow one to add to the set of methods that …

This paper presents FeatureC++, a novel language extension to C++ that supports Feature-
Oriented Programming (FOP) and Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP). Besides well …

In traditional file system implementations, the Least Recently Used (LRU) block replacement
scheme is widely used to manage the buffer cache due to its simplicity and adaptability …

Résumé The* expression problem* is fundamental for the development of extensible
software. Many (partial) solutions to this important problem have been proposed in the past …

A software product-line is a family of related programs. Each program is defined by a unique
combination of features, where a feature is an increment in program functionality …

We present Jiazzi, a system that enables the construction of large-scale binary components
in Java. Jiazzi components can be thought of as generalizations of Java packages with …

This is a case study in the use of product-line architectures (PLAs) and domain-specific
languages (DSLs) to design an extensible command-and-control simulator for Army fire …