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DERAF: A High-Level Aspects Framework for Distributed Embedded Real-Time Systems Design

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Early Aspects: Current Challenges and Future Directions (EAW 2007)

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Distributed Embedded Real-time Systems (DERTS) have several requirements directly related to characteristics that are difficult to handle when a pure object-oriented method is used for their development. These requirements are called Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) and refer to orthogonal properties, conditions, and restrictions that are spread out over the system. Pure object-oriented methods do not address successfully those concerns, so new technologies, like aspect orientation, are being applied in order to fulfill this gap. This work presents a proposal to use aspect orientation in the analysis and design of DERTS. To support our proposal, we created DERAF (Distributed Embedded Real-time Aspects Framework), an extensible high-level framework (i.e. implementation-independent) to handle NFR of DERTS. DERAF is used together with RT-UML in the design phase, aiming to separate the handling of non-functional from functional requirements in the Model Driven Design of DERTS. A qualitative assessment of DERAF separation of concerns is also presented.

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  1. Computer Science Institute – Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Caixa Postal 15.064 – 91.501-970 – Porto Alegre – RS, Brazil

    Edison Pignaton de Freitas, Marco Aurélio Wehrmeister, Elias Teodoro Silva Jr., Fabiano Costa Carvalho, Carlos Eduardo Pereira & Flávio Rech Wagner

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de Freitas, E.P., Wehrmeister, M.A., Silva, E.T., Carvalho, F.C., Pereira, C.E., Wagner, F.R. (2007). DERAF: A High-Level Aspects Framework for Distributed Embedded Real-Time Systems Design. In: Moreira, A., Grundy, J. (eds) Early Aspects: Current Challenges and Future Directions. EAW 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4765. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76811-1_4

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