Search results for "Situational Method Engineering"

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A Collaborative Tool for Designing and Enacting Design Processes

2009

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.

Settore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniSituational Method Engineering Metameth expert system collaborative tool CAPE/CAME/CASE tool
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THE METAMODEL: A STARTING POINT FOR DESIGN PROCESSES CONSTRUCTION

2010

The construction of ad-hoc design processes following the Situational Method Engineering (SME) paradigm is currently carried out by adopting a set of phases for which, until now, no well defined techniques and guidelines have been established. The consequence is that organizations are very dependent on method designers' skills. In this paper, we propose an approach based on SME for constructing customized agent oriented design processes. Our approach adopts the metamodel as the most important factor leading to the selection and assembly of method fragments and an algorithm for establishing the instantiation order of metamodel elements. The algorithm makes the proposed approach repeatable a…

EngineeringComputer Networks and Communicationssituational method engineeringUSableSet (abstract data type)Artificial IntelligenceFactor (programming language)Metamodelcomputer.programming_languageSettore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniPoint (typography)business.industrySituational Method Engineering.Multi-agent systemMethod engineeringComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided DesignMetamodelingdesign processMulti-agent systemSystems engineeringDesign processDesign ProceSoftware engineeringbusinesscomputerSoftwareInternational Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
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Using and Extending the SPEM Specifications to Represent Agent Oriented Methodologies

2009

Situational Method Engineering used for constructing ad-hoc agent oriented design processes is grounded on a well defined set of phases that are principally based on reuse of components coming from existing agent design processes; these components have to be stored in a repository. The identification and extraction of these components could take large advantages from the existence of a standardized representation of the design processes they come from. In this paper we illustrate our solution based on SPEM 2.0 specifications for modelling agent design processes and extending them when necessary to meet the specific needs we faced in our experiments.

EngineeringSituational Method Engineeringbusiness.industryMethod engineeringReuseAgent designAgent oriented designSet (abstract data type)Agent-oriented methodologyIdentification (information)Agent oriented designSystems engineeringDesign procebusinessRepresentation (mathematics)
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A comparison of deontic matrices, maps and activity diagrams for the construction of situational methods

2007

Several approaches have been proposed to support situational method engineering (SME), each of them providing different techniques and using different basic concepts. In this work, we propose a framework for comparing SME approaches based on a generic SME process model. Three approaches are presented and compared by using this framework.

Basic conceptSituational Method EngineeringActivity diagramDeonticProcess Modeling
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A MAS metamodel-driven approach to process fragments selection

2009

The construction of ad-hoc design processes is more and more required today. In this paper we present our approach for the construction of a new design process following the Situational Method Engineering paradigm. We mainly focus on the selection and assembly activities on the base of what we consider a key element in agent design processes: the MAS metamodel. The paper presents an algorithm establishing a priority order in the realization (instantiation) of MAS metamodel elements by the fragments that will compose the new process.

Settore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniFocus (computing)New proceSituational Method EngineeringKey elementComputer sciencebusiness.industryProcess (engineering)Method engineeringComputer Science (all)Agent designMetamodelingTheoretical Computer ScienceMeta modelPriority orderKey (cryptography)Design processDesign proceSoftware engineeringbusinessRealization (systems)Selection (genetic algorithm)New design
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A Proposal of Process Fragment Definition and Documentation

2012

This paper focuses on the field of Situational Method Engineering (SME) for the construction of agent-oriented design processes. Whatever SME approach a method designer wants to use, he has to manage two main elements: the (method or process) fragment and the repository where it is stored. Specific fragment definition and documentation are fundamental during these activities, for new process composition, and for the consequent system design activities. This paper aims at illustrating a proposal of fragment definition and documentation. This proposal is aimed to be an input for the IEEE FIPA Design Process Documentation and Fragmentation working group and, as regards our own research work, t…

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