Common engineering approaches and modeling approaches from software engineering are brought together. For the domain of process automation an implementation oriented approach for an object oriented software development for heterogeneous distributed systems is introduced. Model elements for control are added to UML as well as small-scale patterns for plant automation. Besides large-scale pattern...

Software usability became an important quality factor in recent years due to the increasing demand of interactive software systems. Now mostly systems are developing using object-oriented methodology. The object-oriented methodology reduces design complexity, so enhances usability. Also objectoriented approach improves the usability of software system when software engineering process combined ...

Object-oriented processes are often touted as solutions to software development problems. The popularity of object-oriented method has generated many favorable reviews, particularly in the popular media. Object-oriented development promises to reduce the maintenance effort. However, these promises are not based on reliable experimentation. The software engineering literature does include some e...

Too often, computer science programs offer a software engineering course that emphasizes concepts, principles, and practical techniques, but fails to engage students in real-world software experiences. The authors have developed an approach to teaching undergraduate software engineering courses that integrates client-oriented project development and open source development practice. They call t...

Developing intelligent agents and cognitive models is a complex software engineering activity. This article shows how tools to create intelligent agents can be improved by taking advantage of established software engineering principles such as high-level languages, maintenance-oriented development environments, and software reuse. We describe how these principles have been realized in the Herba...

With the advent of aspect-oriented programming, the need for adequate techniques for handling aspect-oriented artifacts in the early phases of the software engineering process has emerged. In this paper, we present an aspect-oriented language extension for an integrated modeling language based on object models. We present the way aspect constructs can be handled in requirements and architectura...

Technical interoperability in “Industrie 4.0” scenarios is currently being achieved by standards such as OPC UA. Such standards allow operators to use a common communication interface for heterogeneous production devices. However, production flexibility (e.g. selfconfiguration or dynamic self-adaptation) can only be achieved if system structure and engineering processes change. At the moment, t...

Service-oriented architectures are rapidly gaining presence and popularity in the development of distributed software systems. Their rapid diffusion is changing the software engineering landscape and is opening the way to implement the idea of “software as a service” [19], i.e. something that one uses to compose a workflow that achieves a business goal, and then disengages. A service-oriented s...

Resource quality is one of the dimensions of software quality assessment and must be appropriately addressed in service-oriented architecture. In this paper some resource metrics for distributed systems that conform to the service-oriented concepts will be proposed. Similarities and differences between service-oriented, component-based and web-based software engineering approaches will be analy...

Object Modeling Technique is widely applied in the field of software engineering; and in this paper we applied this technique to model a mobile robot including its behaviors and interactions with environment. The paper first describes key background knowledge about object oriented analysis in software engineering, behavior based robotics and their similarities. Then, based on these similarities...