While the specification languages of workflow management systems focus on process execution semantics, the successful development of workflows relies on a fuller conceptualisation of business processing, including process semantics. For this, a wellspring of modelling techniques, paradigms and informal-formal method extensions which address the analysis of organisational processing structures (...

In this position paper, we make a case for the development of mobile agent patterns. Patterns have proven extremely useful to the object-oriented programming community. However, of the large amount of pattern research, little effort has been devoted to developing mobile agent patterns. We wish to correct this situation. We believe that the ongoing success of mobile agent systems depends on the ...

In this paper, an integrated development environment for service-oriented Grid applications integrated into the Eclipse platform is presented. Its design is based on model-driven software development principles, allowing domain experts to rapidly develop Grid applications by hiding the complexities of the Grid middleware. The functionality of the three main components supporting service creatio...

The essence of component-based software engineering is embodied in component models. Component models specify the properties of components and the mechanism of component compositions. In a rapid growth, a plethora of different component models has been developed, using different technologies, having different aims, and using different principles. This has resulted in a number of models and tech...

Object{oriented design is usually driven by three main reu-sability principles: step{by{step design, design for reuse and design with reuse. However, these principles are just partially applied to the subsequent object{oriented implementation, often due to eeciency constraints , yielding to a gap between design and implementation. In this paper we provide a solution for bridging this gap for a ...

The use of object technology is proliferating in the development of software, and in order to build robust and maintainable complex systems, mastering object-oriented (O-O) analysis and design is essential. Although the object-orientation area is converging towards standard modeling notations, namely UML, and standard middleware platforms, such as OMG’s CORBA, a large variety of O-O development...

Experiences of both researchers and practitioners with the development of object-oriented database systems help us to evaluate the real contributions of object-oriented modeling principles and show the limits and possibilities of improvements of the object-oriented model. One of the research areas where such a need was recognized concerns the class membership. In most object-oriented data model...

Metrics are an important technique in quantifying desirable software and software development characteristics of aspectoriented software development (AOSD). Currently, metrics proposed for AOSD have rarely been validated. We give an overview on the necessary steps to validate definitions and applications of metrics. We also compare definitions for proposed metrics.

Aspect Oriented Software Development (AOSD) is an emerging paradigm that provides new mechanisms to support the modularization of concerns, which otherwise would crosscut the OO system decomposition. However, the accurate identification of concerns to be aspectized is far from being trivial and it requires a systematic design assessment and reasoning about multiple modularity principles. The ac...