Aspect-orientation provides a new way of modularization by
clearly separating crosscutting concerns from non-crosscutting ones. Al-
though originally emerged at the programming level, aspect-orientation
meanwhile stretches also over other development phases. Not only due to
the rise of model-driven engineering, approaches already exist for deal-
ing with aspect-orientation at the modeling level. Nevertheless, concepts
from the programming level are often simply reused without proper adap-
tation. Consequently, such approaches fall short in considering the full
spectrum of modeling concepts not present in programming languages,
like, e.g., di®erent views on the application's structure and behavior.
In this paper we present a survey on existing aspect-oriented modeling
approaches. In doing so, we ¯rst discuss a common reference architecture
for aspect-oriented modeling and thus, take a step towards a consolidated
and more comprehensive view on aspect-orientation. Second, we set up
a framework of evaluation criteria directly derived from the common
reference architecture and thus, allowing for a structured evaluation of
approaches. And third, we provide a comparison of aspect-oriented mod-
eling approaches by means of a running example making the approaches'
strengths and shortcomings more explicit and report on lessons learned.
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