The concept of Agent is being used with different meanings and purposes in two separate fields of software engineering, namely Requirements Engineering and Agent-Oriented Software Engineering. After an introduction to Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering (GORE) and its evolution into Agent-Oriented Requirements Engineering (AORE), this chapter provides a review of some of the main Agent-Orien...

Agent modelling in software engineering is a relatively young area, and there are, as yet, no standard methodologies, development tools, or software architectures. Although our work is emphasized on to represent the agent specifications using different views, they are not oriented for software engineering in terms of providing a modeling notation that directly supports software development. The...

In the last years, an increasing number of computing systems are being realized taking advantage of autonomous agents. Traditional software engineering methodologies are insufficient to be used in the development of such systems because of the particular characteristics of autonomous agents. Therefore, a lot of work has been done to extend traditional software engineering methodologies for agen...

Agent-oriented software engineering is faced with challenges that impact on the adoption of agent technology by the wider software engineering community. This is generally due to lack of adequate comprehension of the concepts of agent technology. This thesis is based on the premise that the comprehension of the concepts of and the adoption of agent technology can be improved. Two approaches are...

Whenever a reverse engineering method is applied to an old software system, the results are mainly limited to its degree of automation. Additional domain knowledge via a human expert helps to overcome this limitation. Modernizing old procedural software for object-oriented reuse requires domain knowledge as well as a balancing of the recovered information. We have developed a reverse engineerin...

The service-oriented model of computing is increasingly becoming the mainstream for developing complex software systems and in particular highly distributed and web-based systems. However, the classification and the specification of non-functional requirements (NFRs) for software services and also for service-oriented systems have not been addressed to the level that NFRs’ classification has be...

In this paper we outline a new process model for security engineering. This process model extends object oriented, use case oriented software development by systematic security requirements elicitation and realization. In particular, we integrate the modeling of security requirements, threat and risk analysis on the one hand with the modeling of business processes, use cases and the constructio...

Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE) and Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) are two disciplines of software engineering, which have been generating a great deal of interest in recent years. From the CBSE point of view, the building of applications becomes a process of assembling independent and reusable software modules called components. However, the necessary dependencies description am...