Agent-oriented techniques are likely to be the next significant breakthrough in software development process. They provide a uniform approach throughout the analysis, design and implementation phases in the development life cycle. Agent-oriented techniques are a natural extension to object-oriented techniques, but while there is a whole plethora of analysis and design methods in the objectorien...

This paper describes the design of a reconfigurable chip programmable at the transistor level and oriented tohe implementation of Evolvable Hardware (EHW) experiments. We tackle the main issues referring to the conception of an Evolutionary Oriented Reconfigurable Architecture (EORA): the cell topology; interconnection between cells; transistor sizing; resistor and capacitor implementation in s...

Design patterns are reusable proven solutions to frequently occurring design problems. To encourage software engineers to use design patterns effectively and correctly throughout the development process, design patterns should be classified and represented formally. In this paper, we apply Object Process Methodology (OPM) for representing and classifying design patterns. OPM enables concurrent ...

Innovative e-commerce ideas have often floundered on an inadequate analysis of the expenses and benefits of the idea and an inadequate integration of the required e-business processes with other business processes. We present a requirements analysis and business process design approach that focuses on the analysis of the expenses and benefits of the e-commerce idea to all actors involved. We ma...

Concurrency is thought to be an advanced topic – much harder than serial computing which, therefore, needs to be mastered first. This paper contends that this tradition is wrong, which has radical implications for the way we educate people in Computer Science – and on how we apply what we have learnt. A process-oriented design pattern for concurrency is presented with a specific binding for Jav...

The paper introduces a method to design software process models. The method is based on object oriented design extended with a kernel of PM specific classes and relations. A graphical notation to depict process model designs is given together with few structuring and presentation rules.

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IMS LD supports the design of personalized learning by adapting activities and other process elements to personal characteristics. This paper presents a new idea to adjust activities and elements to group characteristics for supporting ‘groupalized’ or group-adapted learning. This may help to improve effectiveness and efficiency of group-based collaborative learning. Our approach to formalize a...

This paper proposed a new approach for integrated business-process-driven modeling and implementation for service-oriented enterprise applications. There are three phases in this approach: business environment modeling, business process modeling, and compiling. Business environment modeling employs a new modeling technique combining both the advantages of use case diagram and sequence diagram i...

Agent design patterns represent solutions to the specific problem of developing multi-agent based applications that have evolved over time. They leverage the reuse level to the design phase by providing a common vocabulary of design, means of understanding designs and proven building blocks from which more complex applications are built. Much of the research work on agent design patterns has pr...