After a survey of the specific features of ubiquitous computing applications and corresponding middleware requirements, we list the various paradigms used in the main middlewares for ubiquitous computing in the literature. We underline the lack of works introducing the use of the concept of Aspects in middleware dedicated to ubiquitous computing, in spite of them being used for middleware improvement in other domains. adaptation approach using the original concept called Aspect of Assembly. These paradigms lead to two ways to dynamically design ubiquitous computing applications. The first implements a classical component-based compositional approach to design higher-level composite Web Services and then allow to increment the graph of cooperating services for the applications. This approach is well suited to design the applications in a known, common, and usual context. The second way uses a compositional approach for adaptation using Aspect of Assembly, particularly well-suited to tune a set of composite services in reaction to a particular variation of the context or changing preferences of the users. Having detailed Aspect of Assembly concept, we finally comment on results indicating the expressiveness and the performance of such an approach, showing empirically that principles of aspects and program integration can be used to facilitate the design of adaptive applications.Keywords Ubiquitous computing · Web services for devices · Event-based component middleware · Software composition Ubiquitous computingWe are standing on the brink of a new computing era, one that will fundamentally transform our computing usages. In September 1991, Mark Weiser in [38] unveiled his vision of ubiquitous computing. He described the future like a world where computing systems are available anywhere but not visible. Already, early forms of ubiquitous computing are obvious in the

Main concepts to handle in ambient computing applications are hard to integrate at the same time. After studying middlewares handling a part of the challenge, and after studying possiblities of main paradigms in name of CBSE and SOA, we present our Service Lightweight Component Architecture (SLCA) model, based on three main paradigms: Web services, enabling entities interoperability, dynamic discovery, and distribution; lightweight component assemblies to create composite Web services, allowing a high dynamicity; and finally events, giving applications reactivity and a maximal decoupling between entities, thus enabling an even higher dynamicity. This leads to conciliate both service oriented and event driven approaches in a new way to manage a graph of cooperating services in ubiquitous systems.

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