This unit covers advanced topics in design including but not limited to (1)Aspect-Oriented Programming: cross-cutting concerns and design, aspects in object-oriented software, (2) Design patterns: pattern taxonomy - creational, structural and behavioural patterns, design pattern catalogues: e.g., Gamma et al. patterns, synergy between patterns, pattern application and tool support, language-specific patterns, designn patterns in the iOS programming platform and in Java, and (3) Autonomic systems: introduction to self-management and adaptive middleware, issues in self-management, self-properties, business drivers, approaches to modelling and software engineering for self-management, autonomic cloud computing principles with the iCloud platform for illustration.

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