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Software development is necessarily a cognitive process. Software engineers (cognitive entities) develop software to maximize productivity while delivering quality software on time. In essence, issues in software engineering can be conceptualized as a cognitive optimization problem. The utility of this approach is illustrated by an example in which a cognitive semantic approach is applied in an...

The importance of a clear conceptual and terminological framework for software process engineering and the shortcomings of previous clari cation attempts are discussed. A rst issue of such a framework is described focusing on the general "universe of discourse", on software process models, on the meta-process which handles software process models, on process-centered software engineering enviro...

Biographical notes: Danny Weyns is a post-doctoral researcher at the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven, Belgium. He obtained his PhD in 2006 for research on the connection between multiagent systems and software architecture. Weyns's research interests include the role of the environment in multiagent systems, architectural description languages for decentralised systems and aspect-oriented sof...

A major problem associated with the teaching of software development techniques in the context of Software Engineering is the diiculty of realistically simulating large scale industrial-strength project developments in an educational environment. This paper describes our plan for focussing on software reuse in software engineering education within Australian Universities. A joint project involv...

It is extensively reckoned that the development and utilization of reusable software artifacts is necessary for improving software development efficiency and software prominence. Most software development methodologies recognize the utility of reuse, and some even provide processes and contrivances to directly support it. Therefore, an object-oriented software engineering methodology is grounde...

In this paper we outline an aspect-oriented approach to support separation and modularization of crosscutting concerns in multi-agent systems. Aspects are used as abstractions to capture social patterns as concerns that crosscut software agents in multi-agent systems, whose separation and modularization are not taken into account in current agent-oriented software engineering. Social patterns a...

Context: The benefits of theModel-Driven Software Engineering application for Service-Oriented Computing. Objective: This paper proposes a Model-Based approach for Service-Oriented Systems Development. Method: Following the Model-Driven Reverse Engineering process, from the models discovery, to the generation of the current Model-Based Approach for Service-Oriented Systems Development. Results:...

Source code analysis does not provide enough information for the program understanding activities. Understanding object oriented software systems during software maintenance are difficult and take a considerable amount of time and cost. In software maintenance perspective reverse engineering process extracts information to provide visibility of the object oriented components and relations in th...