Object–oriented methods can substantially improve achievement of software–engineering and system–building goals. Choosing a method means looking at the support it offers for the object– oriented paradigm, for the application domain of the software developer, and for software–engineering principles, practices, and goals. In this presentation we shall explore how these needs are answered by vario...

Abstract. This pattern language describes how to reverse engineer an object-oriented software system. Since the only way to achieve a truly reusable object-oriented design is recognised to be iterative development, reverse engineering is indeed an essential facet of any object-oriented development process. The pattern language itself covers the different phases one encounters when reverse engin...

Early Aspects is a concept that applies an aspect-oriented (AO) paradigm to the requirements engineering. Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering (AORE) can be considered as an important role in the early phase of aspect-oriented software development (AOSD). Crosscutting concerns provide modularized concept for tangled representation of the software. There are several works in the AOSD area th...

This chapter provides a comparison of the 10 agent-oriented software engineering methodologies presented in the preceding chapters. An evaluation framework comprising process-related, technique-related, model-related and supportivefeature criteria is used in this comparison. As each application entails a different set of requirements that indicate which evaluation criteria are the most importan...

This article is concerned with the engineering of societal information systems where technical components of a system – software agents – support the social network around which the system is centered. We propose agent-oriented modeling as a suitable software engineering approach for developing open and adaptive societal information systems. The article first outlines the steps of the software ...

The engineering field has taken on many new disciplines as our scientific knowledge has grown. The latest discipline in this is software engineering. Service Oriented Architecture, and in a broader sense, Service Oriented Computing have influenced Information and Communication Technology towards a design of uncoupled yet coherent architectures of services. Hence, it would be fair to say that Se...

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We present Taom4E, a tool for the development of software following the agent-oriented software engineering methodology Tropos. The Eclipse plug-in Taom4E supports visual goal modelling and includes functionalities for code generation and testing for goal-oriented agent platforms.

1 Abstract Computerized databases are essential and inseparable components of a vast majority of today's information systems. Database systems are used at all levels of management, research and production to provide uniform access and control of consistent information. Computer aided software engineering system require extensive database system support. Several industrial and academic research ...