-In today’s world, Component Based development is an active research area for more than a decade in software engineering. As they provide automated or semi-automated support for the various processes and the methods. There are three main approaches in Software Engineering world such as Structured, Object-oriented and Component-based approach. The last Component-based approach introduces more be...

Several concerns in the development of multi-agent systems (MASs) cannot be represented in a modular fashion. In general, they inherently affect several system modules and cannot be explicitly captured based on existing software engineering abstractions. These crosscutting concerns encompass internal agent properties and systemic properties, such as learning, code mobility, error handling, and ...

SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) is becoming a leading paradigm for the development of information systems and application integration. Web services [1] and Semantic Web [2] are emerging technologies that promote service-oriented architecture and service-oriented ebusiness systems. With open and standard application interfaces and technologies, Web services implement SOA’s features to suppor...

As object-oriented approaches to software engineering are gaining wider acceptance, the body of software components available as reusable objects is expected to grow accordingly. The emerging object oriented database technology promises to provide appropriate access paths to such, possibly large and semantically rich, software bases [5]. The software engineer is then responsible for solving pro...

Web-based systems have become increasingly important due to the fact that the Internet and the World Wide Web have become ubiquitous, surpassing all other technological developments in our history. The Internet and especially companies websites has rapidly evolved in their scope and extent of use, from being a little more than fixed advertising material, i.e. a "web presences", which had no par...

Web-based systems have become increasingly important due to the fact that the Internet and the World Wide Web have become ubiquitous, surpassing all other technological developments in our history. The Internet and especially companies websites has rapidly evolved in their scope and extent of use, from being a little more than fixed advertising material, i.e. a "web presences", which had no par...

Over a decade ago Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) was introduced to provide better alignment between business requirements and IT solutions. During this period a great deal of research interest has emerged from academia and industry alike, to promote this new style of software development. The promise was that SOA based development will improve reusability, agility, platform independence an...

Systems development methodologies continue to be a central area of research in software engineering. As the nature of applications and systems usage move increasingly towards open networked environments, not only are new methodologies required, but new ways for evaluating methodologies for these new environments are also required. The agent-oriented approach to software engineering introduces c...

This report carries out a study that is based on literature of the state-of-the-art in Aspect-Oriented Design Approaches. The goal of this work is to position these design approaches within the full life-cycle of a software engineering process that encompasses requirements analysis, architecture design, detailed design, implementation, maintenance, evolution, etc. The study takes on the form of...

This paper reports on the results of the Fifth International Workshop on Object-Oriented Reengineering in Oslo on June 15, 2004. It enumerates the presentations made, classifies the contributions and lists the main results of the discussions held at the workshop. As such it provides the context for future workshops around this topic. 1 Objectives of the Workshop The workshop on Object-Oriented ...