Evaluating the Potential for Integrating the OPEN and Tropos metamodels

Abstract

Methodologies involves both process elements and product elements. The OPEN Procees Framework (OPF) focuses largely on process elements in the context of object-Oriented systems development. The Tropos metamodel, on the other hend, focusses on early requirements engineering support for agent-oriented development. In a project to extend the OPF to support agent oriented developments, we investigate the potential for amalgamation of these two methodological approaches and their metamodels, describing how the metamodel integration has been initiated.