Modeling Platform Specific Attributes of a System as Crosscutting Concerns using Aspect-Oriented Statech arts and Virtual Finite State Mach ines

mmah oney @ carthage.e du Model Driven Development (MDD) emphasizes the importance of modeling business requirements and separating platform independent details of a system from platform specific details. Virtual Finite State Machines (VFSM) are an MDD construct that model control behavior in a finite state machine to prolong the life of a design. The platform specific behaviors in a system can be considered crosscutting concerns rather than core concerns. These crosscutting concerns can be modeled as statecharts using the Aspect-Oriented Statechart Framework (AOSF) and woven into a VFSM to reduce coupling and maximize reuse of system models