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Identification of Reusable Method Fragments from the PASSI Agent-Oriented Methodology

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Theoretical proposals for the development of reusable method fragments are applied to the identification of method fragments in the agent-oriented methodology, PASSI. The format of these fragments is ensured as compatible with the structure and format already established for the OPEN Process Framework’s (OPF) repository, which uses a method engineering (ME) approach. Since the OPF repository has already been enhanced by fragments from several other AO methodologies, we expect a “convergence to completion” (or near-completion) such that most of the PASSI fragments are likely to map to existing OPF fragments. Indeed, only seven new fragments (six of which are novel diagram types) are identified in this study.

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    B. Henderson-Sellers, J. Debenham & Q. -N. N. Tran

  2. ICAR – Consiglio Nazionale Ricerche, Italy

    M. Cossentino

  3. University of New South Wales, NSW, 2052, Australia

    G. Low

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  1. ISYS- Information Systems Research Unit, IAG-Louvain School of Management, Université catholique de Louvain, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    Manuel Kolp

  2. European Commission, DG Information Society and Media, Unit D3: Software Technologies, Avenue de Beaulieu 29, level 4, office 49,, 1049, Brussels, Belgium

    Paolo Bresciani

  3. Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, 2000, Sydney, Broadway, NSW, Australia

    Brian Henderson-Sellers

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Henderson-Sellers, B., Debenham, J., Tran, Q.N.N., Cossentino, M., Low, G. (2006). Identification of Reusable Method Fragments from the PASSI Agent-Oriented Methodology. In: Kolp, M., Bresciani, P., Henderson-Sellers, B., Winikoff, M. (eds) Agent-Oriented Information Systems III. AOIS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3529. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11916291_7

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