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Part III. Agent-Oriented Systems Analysis and Design Methodologies

7. Agent-Oriented Information Systems Analysis and Design: Why and How
Paolo Giorgini, Manuel Kolp, and John Mylopoulos 97

8. Agent-Oriented Methods and Method Engineering
Brian Henderson-Sellers 118
Part IV. New Approaches and Architectures for Information Systems Development

9. Application of the Fact-Based Approach to Domain Modeling of Object-Oriented
Information Systems
Kinh Nguyen and Tharam Dillon 141

10. Systematic Derivation and Evaluation of Domain-Specific and Implementation-
Independent Software Architectures
K. Suzanne Barber and Thomas Graser 168

11. OO-Method: A Conceptual Schema-Centric Development Approach
Oscar Pastor, Juan Carlos Molina, and Emilio Iborra 201

Editors and Contributors 223
Series Editor 231
Index 233