Our goal in this paper is to introduce and motivate a methodology, called Tropos,1 for building agent oriented software systems. Tropos is based on two key ideas. First, the notion...
Paolo Bresciani, Anna Perini, Paolo Giorgini, Faus...
UML activity models (activities, for short) have become widely accepted for specifying the dynamic behavior of use cases. For an adequate specification of use cases in the context...
Many of today’s software applications require a high-level of security, defined by a detailed policy and attained via mechanisms such as role-based access control (RBAC), mandat...
Jaime A. Pavlich-Mariscal, Laurent Michel, Steven ...
Abstract. Current software systems increasingly consist of distributed interacting components. The use of web services and similar middleware technologies strongly fosters such arc...
Martin Deubler, Michael Meisinger, Sabine Rittmann...
This paper summarizes the experience of teaching objectoriented modeling and UML for more than a decade to various audiences (academic or corporate, software developers or not). W...