Autonomous agents are beginning to be used as a software paradigm, because of their potential to build more powerful and flexible complex systems. To achieve such benefits a standard definition of is agenthood is necessary. In doing so, agent-oriented software engineering will not only be able to develop standardised processes for building agent-based systems but also be able to better as evalu...

The sway of the pendulum in language pedagogy towards conscious learning processes marks the paramount role of metalinguistic awareness. The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to compare the impact of teacher-oriented vs. learner-generated metalinguistic awareness activities on Iranian TEFL students’ writing accuracy. Sixty participants in three intact classes were randomly assigned a...

In this paper we describe an implementation of mobile processes with polymorphic interfaces in the ProcessJ language. ProcessJ is a process oriented language based on CSP and the π-calculus. In the paper we demonstrate the translation of ProcessJ to Java/JCSP and illustrate how to implement mobile processes with polymorphic interfaces without rewriting bytecode; this requires some clever code g...

This paper describes design and implementation issues for introducing concurrency to object-oriented programming. Designing a concurrency class library along with an object-oriented concurrent program design method is presented as the prefered way to extend an existing object-oriented language. A set of classes designed to facilitate concurrent programming using the sequential object-oriented l...

This article aims at the integration of communities of practice into work processes. Linear structures are often inappropriate for the execution of knowledge intensive tasks and work processes. The latter are characterized by non-linear sequences and dynamic, social interaction. But for the work in communities of practice the leading path, that is needed for structuring the work, is often missi...

Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is a new computing paradigm that utilizes services as the basic constructs to support the development of rapid, low-cost and easy composition of distributed applications even in heterogeneous environments. The promise of Service-Oriented Computing is a world of cooperating services where application components are assembled with little effort into a network of s...

the most important goal of each society, is to reach economic development. as the goal and agent of development, man has got an important responsibility, which responsibility is realized by way of education, specially higher education, because the universities are the main factors for progress, production of knowledge and education of specialized human forces and they play a significant role in...

Based on GQM(Goal Question Metric) approach, this paper presents a new process-oriented metrics for software architecture adaptability. This method extends and improves the GQM method. It develops process-oriented processes for metrics modeling, introduces data and validation levels, adds structured description of metrics, and defines new indexes of metrics.

This paper addresses the issue of crossorganisational process integration using the Design Structure Matrix (DSM) approach from engineering design. This approach includes a set of generic techniques for minimising iterations within processes, thus reducing the impact of rework on processing times both within single processes and across interconnected processes. The paper focuses on the latter: ...

Subject-oriented business process management (S-BPM) introduces a new technique for process modeling that emphasizes the importance of the actors in business processes (subjects) and gives a balanced consideration to subjects, their actions, and goals. Because of the formal foundation and the clear declaration of subjects, S-BPM allows the distributed modeling and execution of processes, withou...