Publications

@inproceedings{cossentinoCollaborativeToolDesigning2009,

title = {A Collaborative Tool for Designing and Enacting Design Processes},

author = { Massimo Cossentino and Luca Sabatucci and Valeria Seidita},

doi = {10.1145/1529282.1529431},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-01-01},

booktitle = {SAC},

pages = {715--721},

abstract = {Today several approaches using Situational Method Engineering paradigm exist, each of them proposes methods and techniques for developing ad-hoc design processes. In this context heavy efforts were spent in the construction of appropriate tools that could help method engineers in producing a specific design process and in using it. We developed a tool called Metameth for supporting the design process definition and its enactment. Metameth is implemented as a multi-agent system, where each agent is capable of reasoning and adapting itself in order to support the designer in performing different kinds of design activities.},

keywords = {Collaborative Tool, Situational Method Engineering, Supporting Tool},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{cossentinoAgentOrientedTool2006,

title = {An Agent Oriented Tool for Method Engineering},

author = { Massimo Cossentino and Luca Sabatucci and Valeria Seidita and Salvatore Gaglio},

year  = {2006},

date = {2006-01-01},

booktitle = {EUMAS},

abstract = {In the last years we applied the Method Engineering paradigm to the development of agent-oriented design processes. The main difficulty in our initial experiments was ensuring the support of a customised CASE tool to the new methodology. In this paper we now present a Computer-Aided Process Engineering (CAPE) tool that we developed in order to allow the design of the new process and then its instantiation. The process is executed as a workflow, the designer receives the help of an expert system (for routine works automation and syntax/semantic checks) and can model his/her system using a set of Eclipse plug-ins supporting all UML diagrams. The development of this tool started from the definition of a system metamodel obtained from the initial requirements and then instantiated using open-source and ad hoc developed components; as it could be expected relevant portions of this tool are developed using the agent-oriented paradigm.},

keywords = {Agents, Design Process, Situational Method Engineering, Supporting Tool},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}