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Abstract for Agent-Oriented Methodologies
Agent-oriented methodologies are in their infancy. There is extensive
deliberation as to whether these should be enhancements of OO
methodologies or be created ab initio. Here we argue that the lessons
learned in both object technology and method engineering can be useful
in devising new agent-oriented methodologies. We will use as our basis
the OPEN Process Framework (OPF) , which is an OO metamodel-based
framework consisting of a set of process components stored in a
repository. Individual selections are then made from that repository in
order to create a personalized process for software development by use
of method engineering techniques. Originally targeted at object
technology, the OPF has been recently extended to support agent-oriented
information systems. We find that although much work has to be done to
deal with autonomous components, the scope of the OPEN Process
Framework is adequate to absorb this new work. Furthermore, there has
been no need to perturb the existing Framework in accommodating these
new ideas.
Brief bio for Dr. Brian Henderson-Sellers
BRIAN HENDERSON-SELLERS is Director of the Centre for Object Technology
Applications and Research and Professor of Information Systems at
University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). He is author of eleven books on
object technology and is well-known for his work in OO methodologies
(MOSES, COMMA, OPEN, OOSPICE) and in OO metrics. Brian has been Regional
Editor of Object-Oriented Systems, a member of the editorial board of
Object Magazine/Component Strategies and Object Expert for many years
and is currently on the editorial board of Journal of Object Technology
and Software and Systems Modelling. He was the Founder of the
Object-Oriented Special Interest Group of the Australian Computer
Society (NSW Branch) and Chairman of the Computerworld Object
Developers' Awards committee for ObjectWorld 94 and 95 (Sydney). He is a
frequent, invited speaker at international OT conferences. In 1999, he
was voted number 3 in the Who's Who of Object Technology (Handbook of
Object Technology, CRC Press, Appendix N). He is currently a member of
the Review Panel for the OMG's Software Process Engineering Model (SPEM)
standards initiative and is a member of the UML2.0 review team. In July
2001, Professor Henderson-Sellers was awarded a Doctor of Science (DSc)
from the University of London for his research contributions in
object-oriented methodologies.
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