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Henry Muccini
Ph.D. in Computer Science |
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"A Software Engineering Approach for Coordination Policies Elicitation".
H. Muccini,
F. Mancinelli.
In Int. Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS), Special Issue on Coordination and Collaboration
Technologies, march 2004.
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Abstract:
In a software system, software processes can be
concurrently run by system actors (e.g., agents,
components), by making use of shared or dedicated software
resources. Coordination is a research area oriented to
understand, explicitly model and analyze how activities
can depend on each other, in a concurrent system. Many
coordination models and languages have been presented in
the last few years in order to make coordination a first
class entity in the development of a software system.
However, what usually happens, is that coordination is
described late in the software development and it is not
integrated in a typical software process. What we claim,
with our research, is that if coordination becomes
explicit and formalized as soon as possible in the
software life cycle, then it is possible to create
coordination-aware software systems, which are easily
maintained and developed. What we present, in the
following, is a software engineering view of coordination.
Diagrams produced during a UML-based software modeling,
are analyzed in order to help a software engineer in the
difficult task to elicit coordination requirements from
informal ones. We
show how UML models can drive an elicitation process in
order to identify coordination requirements, and can
graphically describe which elements need coordination. |
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