The CHOOSE executive board is pleased to invite you to a presentation by Brian Henderson-Sellers (University of Technology, Sydney) on 'OO and AO Methodologies - a Method Engineering Approach'.

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OO and AO Methodologies - a Method Engineering Approach =======================================================

When: Tuesday June 27, 2006

Where: Institut fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik (IWI), Universitaet Bern, Engehaldenstrasse 8, 3012 Bern, Hoersaal 001

Travel instructions: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Resources/Maps/

Speaker ------- Prof. Brian Henderson-Sellers, University of Technology, Sydney

Agenda ------

17h15 Talk and Q/A

Afterwards you are invited to a refreshment.

Abstract ========

The FAME project uses method engineering to construct a methodological approach for agent-oriented software development using, as a precursor, the object-oriented OPEN Process Framework. The repository of OO-focussed method fragments has been extended to support various agent-oriented methodological approaches. In this talk, I will show how method engineering provides an excellent base for constructing situation specific software engineering methodologies for both object and agent software development. Both OPF and FAME use an existing repository coupled to an appropriate metamodel (which in the near future will be the new ISO standard metamodel ISO24744, itself based on the OO concept of powertypes). This flexible, yet standardized repository supplies method fragments that are then configured to support specific projects. In addition, all existing, and new, OO and AO methodologies can be recreated, thus providing an industry strength resource for object-oriented and agent- oriented software development.

Bio ===

Brian Henderson-Sellers is Director of the Centre for Object Technology Applications and Research and Professor of Information Systems at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). He is author or editor of 27 books and is well-known for his work in object- oriented and agent-oriented methodologies (MOSES, COMMA, OPEN, OOSPICE, FAME), OO metrics and metamodelling. More recently, he has chaired workshops at OOPSLA and AOIS (Agent-Oriented information Systems workshop) on agent-oriented methodologies. He is Editor of the International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering and on the editorial board of Journal of Object Technology, Software and Systems Modelling and International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence. 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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