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RESEARCH PRODUCT

A collaborative tool for designing and enacting design processes

Valeria SeiditaMassimo CossentinoLuca Sabatucci

subject

business.industryComputer scienceManagement scienceMethod engineeringDesign processContext (language use)Situational ethicsSoftware engineeringbusinesscomputer.software_genreEngineering design processcomputerExpert system

description

Today several approaches using Situational Method Engineering paradigm exist, each of them proposes methods and techniques for developing ad-hoc design processes. In this context heavy efforts were spent in the construction of appropriate tools that could help method engineers in producing a specific design process and in using it. We developed a tool called Metameth for supporting the design process definition and its enactment. Metameth is implemented as a multi-agent system, where each agent is capable of reasoning and adapting itself in order to support the designer in performing different kinds of design activities.

https://doi.org/10.1145/1529282.1529431