The IST-FET Integrated Project SENSORIA is developing a novel comprehensive approach to the engineering of service-oriented software systems where foundational theories, techniques and methods are fully integrated into pragmatic software engineering processes. The techniques and tools of SENSORIA encompass the whole software development cycle, from business and architectural design, to quantita...

In recent years, the agent technology has evolved rapidly along with a growing number of agent architectures, theories and languages. Computer science and engineering communities considered agent technology as one of the most important and active area of research and development. Agent oriented software engineering has numerous applications in different areas such as information management, spa...

According to the IEEE standard glossary of software engineering, Object-Oriented design is becoming more important in software development environment and software Metrics are essential in software engineering for measuring the software complexity, estimating size, quality and project efforts. There are various approaches through which we can find the software cost estimation and predicates on ...

The paper outlines semantic-oriented methodology of enterprise software development. The methodology provides integrated visual semantic-oriented enterprise software development and integration in globally distributed heterogeneous environment. The ConceptModeller CASE tool fills the gap between formal computer science models and software engineering practices. The toolkit transforms frame-base...

The initial step of any software engineering methodology is to form requirements. Recently, a goal-oriented approach to requirements has been proposed and argued to be beneficial. Goals also play a key role in the implementation of proactive software agents. However, although some agent-oriented software engineering methodologies have incorporated (aspects of) goal-oriented requirements enginee...

The software development is dynamic and is always undergoing major changes. Today a huge number of tools and methodologies are available for software development and software development refers to all activities that go into producing information system solution. System development activities consist of system analysis, modeling, design, implementation, testing and maintenance and further the s...

This paper presents an investigation into language constructs for supporting improved separation of crosscutting concerns. Traditionally, this separation has been performed using metaprogramming and other related techniques. A growing area of research, called aspect-oriented software development, offers a new approach. We describe several distinctive characteristics of the two approaches with r...

No longer can courseware providers deal with one homogeneous target group, one learning form and possibly one pedagogical approach. Instead they must develop a broad range of courseware, each serving its specific target group, each adjusted to a specific learning and teaching form, each appealing to its own learning and teaching scenario, and each incorporating its own pedagogical approach, and...

100) Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) is a promising area of research with many potentially useful applications. The use of Roles within AOSE has been noted as an important enabling feature, but there is still much conjecture as to their form and usage. This paper seeks to form a singular description of an Agent Role. So that this Role definition can be used in a wider context, this p...

We review some of the history of Software Engineering since 1968 and discuss some the underlying concepts of Structured and ObjectOriented Software Development, noting that they don't offer means of capturing and analyzing design spaces for the software-to-be. We then introduce Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering concepts adopted from the KAOS and i* modelling frameworks, noting key ideas. W...