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Modules for Crosscutting Models

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Traditional programming languages assume that real-world systems have “intuitive”, mind-independent, preexisting concept hierarchies. However, our perception of the world depends heavily on the context from which it is viewed: Every software system can be viewed from multiple different perspectives, and each of these perspectives may imply a different decomposition of the concerns. The hierarchy which we choose to decompose our software system into modules is to a large degree arbitrary, although it has a big influence on the software engineering properties of the software. We identify this arbitrariness of the decomposition hierarchy as the main cause of ‘code tangling’ and present a new model called Caesar 1, within which it is possible to have multiple different decompositions simultaneously and to add new decompositions on-demand.

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  1. Darmstadt University of Technology, D-64283, Darmstadt, Germany

    Mira Mezini & Klaus Ostermann

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    Jean-Pierre Rosen

  2. Software Engineering Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne EPFL, Switzerland

    Alfred Strohmeier

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Mezini, M., Ostermann, K. (2003). Modules for Crosscutting Models. In: Rosen, JP., Strohmeier, A. (eds) Reliable Software Technologies — Ada-Europe 2003. Ada-Europe 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2655. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44947-7_2

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