[ecoop-info] IEEE FIPA Workshop on Design Process Documentation and Fragment
Ambra Molesini
ambra.molesini at unibo.it
Tue May 18 10:01:47 CEST 2010
IEEE FIPA Workshop on Design Process Documentation and Fragmentation
to be held at The Multi-Agent Logics, Languages,
and Organisations Federated Workshops (MALLOW 2010)
30th of August - 2nd of September, 2010
Domaine Valpré - Lyon, France
(Website at http://mallow2010.emse.fr/index.html)
Complex software system development with the
agent-oriented approach requires suitable agent
oriented modelling techniques and processes
providing explicit support for the key
abstractions of the agent paradigm. Several
design processes supporting analysis, design and
implementation of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have
been to date proposed in the context of Agent
Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE). Each of
them presents different advantages when applied
to specific problems. A unique design process can
not be general enough to be useful to everyone
without some kind of customisation; when
developing a new design process, several MAS
developers/designers prefer to use phases, models
or elements coming from existing design processes
in order to build up a personalised approach for
their own problem thus spending time and
increasing the cost for learning different approaches.
This problem can be faced by adopting the method
engineering paradigm (more precisely the
situational method engineering paradigm).
Situational method engineering paradigm provides
means for constructing ad-hoc software
engineering processes following an approach based
on the reuse of portions of existing design
processes, the so called method fragments stored
in a repository, called method base.
Method fragment or simply fragment is the
building block of ad-hoc design processes;
several well known approaches in literature
present different definitions and descriptions of
method fragment but all of them share the same
assumption: each existing design process can be
considered as composed of self contained
components, the fragments. The definition of
method fragment in every kind of situational
method engineering approach constitutes the base
for the extraction of fragments from existing
design processes, for their retrieval from the
method base and for their assembly in the new
design process. Today it does not exist (yet) a
unique, standard, definition of method fragment
besides when looking at existing design
processes, usually designers have to cope with an
additional difficulty consisting in the lack of
uniformity in their documentation. Other, still
open issues, lies in the definition of techniques
for fragment selection and composition.
The IEEE FIPA Design Process Documentation and
Fragmentation working group is working on such
topics in order to provide a solution to the
raised issues in terms of a shared and easily
adoptable specification for the documentation of
the design process and of the process fragment.
More in details, this working group aims to
propose a definition of method fragment to be
used during a situational method engineering
process, the fundamental elements it is composed
of and the metamodel it is based on.
The first, currently undergoing, step is the
identification of the most suitable process
metamodel and notation: (i) for the
representation of the existing design processes
from which the fragments have to be extracted,
and (ii) for the representation of fragments themselves.
This step will outcome in the definition of a
proper template for the description of
agent-oriented design processes. Such a template
will, obviously, refer to the selected process
metamodel and suggest the adoption of good
practices in documenting existing processes as
well as defining new ones. A refined draft of the
template is already available from the working
group website at: http://www.pa.icar.cnr.it/cossentino/fipa-dpdf-wg/
The final step will be the definition of the
Method Fragment Structure and Documentation
Template. This work will start from the results
obtained by the old FIPA Methodology Technical Committee (years 2003-2005).
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Aim of this workshop
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This workshop will focus on the research and
standardisation topics related to the activity of
the IEEE FIPA DPDF working group. They will
include process modelling, process documentation,
theoretical and practical aspects of design
process definition, the different use of
fragments, and the definition of concepts and
techniques related to them. Although the workshop
is tightly related to the FIPA context, the scope
is not limited to agent-oriented approaches but
other points of view are of great interest to this event.
The workshop organisers specifically welcome
papers describing applications of the
specification drafted by this FIPA working group
or new specification proposals for process
documentation, fragment definition, and process fragmentation.
A non-restrictive list of topics of interest includes:
· Specification proposals and
applications of the specifications already drafted by the working group
· Situational Method Engineering (SME)
· Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE)
· Standards for the description of
design processes and process/method fragments
· Models, Metamodels and Notations
for design processes/fragments
· Techniques for process fragmentation
· Techniques for fragments selection
· Techniques for fragments composition
· Best practices for
defining/documenting fragments and processes
· Theories and practical experiences in the field
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Important dates
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Important Dates:
· June 13, 2010: Submission of Papers
· July 08, 2010: Notification of Acceptance/ Rejection
· July 30, 2010: Submission of Camera-Ready Copies
· 30 Aug 02 Sept, 2010: Workshop
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Organisers
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· Massimo Cossentino (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy)
· Vincent Hilare (Université de Technologie
de Belfort-Montbélliard, France)
· Ambra Molesini (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna)
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Program Committee (members are to be confirmed)
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C. Bernon (Univ. Paul Sabatier, FR)
G. Cabri (Univ. Modena e Reggio Emilia, IT)
S. DeLoach (Kansas State Univ., USA)
G. Fortino (Univ. Calabria, IT)
R. Fuentes Fernandez (Univ. Madrid, ES)
S. Galland (Univ. Belfort, UTBM, FR)
A. Garro (Univ. Calabria, IT)
N. Gaud (Univ. Belfort, UTBM, FR)
P. Giorgini (University of Trento, IT)
M.P. Gleizes (Univ. Paul Sabatier, FR)
A. Gomez Rodriguez(Univ. de Vigo, ES)
J. C. Gonzalez Moreno (Univ. de Vigo, ES)
Z. Guessom (Univ. LIP6, Paris, FR)
M.P. Huget (Univ. Savoie, FR)
R. Levy (Intelligent Automation, Inc, USA)
F. Migeon (Univ. Paul Sabatier, FR)
V. Morreale (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, IT)
A. Omicini (Univ. Bologna, IT)
S. Ossowski (Univ. Rey Juan Carlos, ES)
J. Pavon (Univ. Madrid, ES)
J. Pena (Univ. Seville, ES)
A. Perini (Fondazione B. Kessler, IT)
J. Ralyte (University of Geneva, CH)
W. Renz (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, DE)
V. Seidita (University of Palermo, IT)
A. Siena (Fondazione B. Kessler, IT)
P. Storniolo (National Research Council, IT)
J. Sudeikat (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, DE)
A. Susi (Fondazione B. Kessler, IT)
K. Taveter (Tallinn University of Technology, EE)
J.P. Tolvanen (Metacase, FI)
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Dott. Ing. Ambra Molesini,
Ph.D
Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
DEIS - Viale Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna (I)
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