This paper describes a system that supports software development processes in virtual software corporations. A virtual software corporation consists of a set of enterprises that cooperate in projects to fulfill customer needs. Contracts are negotiated in the whole lifecycle of a software development project. The negotiations really influence the performance of a company. Therefore, it is useful...

the main rock mass classification systems make use of similar rock mass parameters. due to lack of comprehensive estimation systems, determining the real specifications of jointed rocks faces some difficulties. a vast number of parameters with various degrees of impact are involved in such definitions. combination impact of all the effective parameters is to be figured out in order to come up w...

This paper presents an approach to model and to implement mobile agents. This approach is materialized by a UML profile, called MA-UML for modeling mobile agents, and a software development environment that assists the specification, design and implementation stages of the agent system development lifecycle, called MAMT. The MAMT environment provides support for modeling multi-agent systems by ...

Currently, companies face the unprecedented challenges of the global marketplace, collaborative environments and the entire product lifecycle. There are new requirements for product representations, including: platform/application independence, support for the product lifecycle, rapidly sharing information between geographically distributed applications and users, and protection of commercial s...

Requirement management plays a crucial role in determining a successful engineering design project. The focus of current requirement research is on the development of requirement elicitation, analysis and formalization methods and tools. Moreover, the existing requirement research often pays attention to the fuzzy front end of product design process. In fact, there exists more needs for require...

This paper presents the VisualAgent a software development environment that assists the specification, design and implementation stages of the agent system development lifecycle. The VisualAgent environment provides support for modeling multi-agent systems by using the MAS-ML modeling language and for implementing such systems by using the Agent Society Framework.

Considerable research and development efforts have been devoted to Computer Aided Process Planning (CAPP). Nevertheless, because the CAPP problem is complex and is characterized by many interdependent technical and business parameters and variables, no viable off-the-shelf solution is yet available that can be easily or widely implemented in industry. This paper presents an overview of the CAPP...

In a globalized world, knowledge work and especially Knowledge-intensive Business Processes (KiBPs) become increasingly important in highly developed countries. As a consequence, knowledge workers increasingly require an appropriate system support. Due to the more complex nature and the different characteristics of KiBPs, the Business Process Management (BPM) approach established to support tra...

Jon Avotins Department of Software Development Monash University, Caul eld Campus PO Box 197, Caul eld East Australia 3145 Email: [email protected] Abstract Two of the principal lessons to emerge from software measurement over the last twenty years have been the need for an e ective approach to metric modelling (Shepperd and Ince 1993), and the need for automated support of such a mo...