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Method Engineering: A Service-Oriented
Approach
Corine Cauvet
Abstract
In the past, a large variety of methods have been published rang-
ing from very generic frameworks to methods for specific information systems.
Method Engineering has emerged as a research discipline for designing, con-
structing and adapting methods for Information Systems development. Several
approaches have been proposed as paradigms in method engineering. The meta
modeling approach provides means for building methods by instantiation, the
component-based approach aims at supporting the development of methods by using
modularization constructs such as method fragments, method chunks and method
components. This chapter presents an approach (SO2M) for method engineering
based on the service paradigm. We consider services as autonomous computa-
tional entities that are self-describing, self-configuring and self-adapting. They can
be described, published, discovered and dynamically composed for processing a
consumer's demand (a developer's requirement). The
method service
concept is
proposed to capture a development process fragment for achieving a goal. Goal
orientation in service specification and the principle of service dynamic composi-
tion support method construction and method adaptation to different development
contexts.
Remerciements: La recherche présentée dans ce chapitre n'aurait pu être menée
si je n'avais pas eu l'immense chance de rencontrer Colette. Je la remercie très
sincèrement pour m'avoir acceptée au sein de son équipe de recherche et aidée tout
au long de ma carrière d'enseignant-chercheur. Elle est dans toute la communauté
française des chercheurs en systèmes d'information la référence pour la qualité
scientifique de ses travaux, pour le rayonnement international de sa recherche et
pour sa vision et ses idées novatrices sur notre domaine.
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