Abstract:
Theoretical proposals for the development of reusable method fragments
are applied to the identification of method fragments in the agentoriented
methodology, PASS!. The format of these fragments is ensured as
compatible with the structure and format already established for the OPEN
Process Framework's (OPF) repository, which uses a method engineering (ME)
approach. Since the OPF repository has already been enhanced by fragments
from several other AO methodologies, we expect a "convergence to completion"
(or near-completion) such that most of the PASSI fragments are likely to
map to existing OPF fragments. Indeed, only seven new fragments (six of
which are novel diagram types) are identified in this study.
