Context-aware application development by means of runtime aspect weaving

On June 1st, 2015, Jose Manuel Felix defended his PhD thesis on efficient runtime adaptation of contextaware systems by means of dynamic aspect weaving, at the University of Oviedo [1]. He presented his dissertation in a publicly open presentation held in the School of Computer Engineering (Fig. 1). After commenting on every question raised by the assessing committee, he was awarded the highest grade (cum laude). The thesis was supervised by Dr. Francisco Ortin. The PhD dissertation committee was composed of Professor Lidia Fuentes (University of Malaga), Dr. Jose Baltasar Garcia Perez-Schofield (University of Vigo), and Professor Juan Manuel Cueva (University of Oviedo). The research work was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (project TIN201125978), the European Union – through the European Regional Development Funds (ERDF) – and the Principality of Asturias – through its Science, Technology and Innovation Plan, grant GRUPIN14-100. The main publications associated with this PhD thesis are [2–5]. The full text of the thesis is available on the Publication Open Repository of the University of Oviedo [1]. The source code of the platform developed, together with the context-aware example applications, and all the benchmarks used in the evaluation of the platform are also available for download.1