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'The book presents, analyzes and compares the most significant methodological approaches currently available for the creation of agent-oriented software systems'--Provided by publisher.

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Product Description: "[The authors] have done an excellent job of bringing forth the power and the flexibility of this most useful framework in an easy to read and understand introduction. Although it has been written to be an introductory text in OPF, I found [it] also readily useable as a handbook for initial process definition, an accessible treatment of important issues in software process design, and a textbook in OPF...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: OPEN Modeling with UMLBrian Henderson-Sellers and Bhuvan UnhelkarACM Press"As you read this book you will find a well-defined and well-honed methodology for managing your own software development processes. Clear explanations of fundamentally difficult concepts make this book a major contribution to the literature and to future standardization in this area" - Richard Soley, Chairman and CEO, Object Management Group...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: OPEN (Object-oriented Process, Environment and Notation) is an international de facto standard object-oriented development method developed and maintained by the OPEN Consortium. OPEN consists of the OPEN Modeling Language (OML) as well as process, metrics, etc...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The OPEN Process Specification describes a tailorable software development process (part of the OPEN methodological framework) that has been formulated to take account of the differing requirements of projects and provide a flexible framework into which project-specific factors may be incorporated...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: There are dozens of OO books on the market for the programming professional, all centred around a specific OO language (C++, Eiffel, Smalltalk). While this approach has worked for the experienced programmer, newcomers to OO programming have a more difficult time trying to learn OO concepts through a specific language...read more

Product Description: Object-oriented (OO) metrics are an integral part of object technology — at the research level and in commercial software development projects. This book offers theoretical and empirical tips and facts for creating an OO complexity metrics (measurement) program, based on a review of existing research from the last several years...read more

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Product Description: Aiming to provide a detailed and comprehensive introduction to object-orientation, this book places an emphasis on analysis and design rather than on programming languages and syntax, and presents a coherent and easily understood methodology...read more