An aspect-oriented approach to dynamic adaptation

ABSTRACT

This paper presents an aspect-oriented approach to dynamic adaptation. A systematic process for defining where, when, and how an adaptation is to be incorporated into an application is presented. Specifically, the paper presents a two-phase approach to dynamic adaptation, where the first phase prepares a non-adaptive program for adaptation, and the second phase implements the adaptation at run time. This approach is illustrated with a distributed conferencing application.

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