Acknowledgments

  I’d like to acknowledge the valuable collaboration of the followings during the long years invested in shaping the work presented in these pages:

• Agha, Gul
• Arsanjani, Ali
• Benjamins, Lion
• Bouraqadi, Noury
• Cardon, Alain
• Dony, Christophe
• Foote, Brian
• Ginot, Vincent
• Krief, Philippe
• Manolescu, Dragos
• Mechitov, Kirill
• Johnson, Ralph
• Perrot, Jean-François
• Potter, David
• Razavi, Goya
• Riehle, Dirk
• Yoder, Joe

Specifically:

• • Gul Agha for having offered me the opportunity to approach the complex universe of distributed computing empowered by his model of Actors, and for having shared during Ambiance, together with Kirill Mechitov, their expertise on Wireless Sensor Networks, specifically their ActorNet Platform .
• • Ali Arsanjani, Dirk Riehle, and Joe Yoder for our numerous discussions and performances related to adaptive object-models
• • Lion Benjamins and David Potter for our numerous insightful discussions on closed-loop lifecycle management since their FP6 Promise project.
• • Noury Bouraqadi and Brian Foote for having shared with me their knowledge on implementing reflective systems, respectively their work on MetaclassTalk and Reflective Facilities in Smalltalk-80.
• • Alain Cardon for his visionary discussions on Artificial Conscious and Adaptive Systems.
• • Christophe Dony for his insightful support during Ambiance on Dependability and Fault-Tolerance in adaptive systems.
• • Vincent Ginot for having offered me the opportunity to reuse and extend my framework Dart in his Mobidyc system, both during my postdoc and Ambiance.
• • Philippe Krief for having taught me the art of object-oriented programming and domain-driven design during an industrial project in early nineties
• • Dragos Manolescu for having shared his early PhD results on micro-workflow, which has been one of the starting points of my PhD work.
• • Ralph Johnson for his insightful contribution to software engineering in general, object-oriented frameworks, design patterns, and Smalltalk, in particular, and for the quality of his collaboration since our first meeting in 1999, during the 2^nd Metadata and Dynamic Object-Model Pattern Mining Workshop in Denver, USA.
• • Jean-François Perrot for having shared with me since 1989 (as a student of him at Paris 6) his expertise and passion of programming languages, and languages in general, and for his continued scientific and technical support since my PhD.

Special thanks go also to Avi Bryant, Julian Fitzell, Lukas Renggli et al., for having implemented and generously published as free and Open Source their exceptional work on Seaside and Pier CMS since close to ten years.

Last but not least, Goya Razavi provides technical and computer graphics support. Specifically, he has designed logos for AAS, AAS-Platform, AAS Showcase, and AAS Community.

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