FIPA Design Process Documentation and Fragmentation Working Group

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A book collecting 13 methodologies (both agent-oriented and object-oriented) represented using the FIPA specification n. SC00097B has been published:
Handbook on Agent-Oriented Design Processes. Cossentino, M., Hilaire, V., Molesini, A., Seidita, V. (Eds.). Publisher: Springer. 2014.

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23-03-2017: first meeting (proposed date to be confirmed yet) for the IEEE standardization procedure. POSTPONED because the procedure within IEEE is taking more time than it was expected.
May, 2014: A book collecting 13 methodologies (both agent-oriented and object-oriented) represented using the FIPA specification n. SC00097B has been published: Handbook on Agent-Oriented Design Processes. Cossentino, M., Hilaire, V., Molesini, A., Seidita, V. (Eds.). Publisher: Springer. 2014.
28-05-2012: The FIPA General Meeting will be held at AAMAS 2012 at 18.30-19:30 CET on JUNE 5 (Tuesday). "Sala de Juntas", room 0S04 of building 1F (building DSIC) of the University, ground floor.
10-01-2012: the FIPA Design Process Documentation Template has been approved by FIPA members as a standard specification (SC00097B)
15-06-2011: The Process Documentation Template has been voted and approved by the working group. It received the official IEEE FIPA document number XC00097A as an experimental specification. The document may be found in Working Docs page.
18-05-2011: After comments from the FIPA Board a new version of the Process Documentation Template has been released. It includes the minor changes requested by the Board. A vote on the specification will be started soon for its final approval. The document is available inthe Working Docs page.
10-12-2010: a dratf proposal of fragment definition and documentation template is available in the Working Docs page.
31-08-2010: The Process Documentation Template has been approved during the WG workgroup and it is now under review by the FIPA board to become an official IEEE FIPA specification (see Working Docs page).
30-08-2010: Workshop of this working group. To be held at MALLOW 2010. Workshop website here. The Process Documentation Template will be voted during the workshop.
08-06-2010: A candidate release for the Process Documentation Template specification is available in the Working Docs page. Final approval deadline: 20-06-2010.
18-05-10: new draft version of the Process Documentation Template specification is available in the Working Docs page. It includes all comments received to date.
18-05-10: The GORMAS process documentation according to the proposed template is available in the Working Docs page.
16-05-10: IEEE FIPA Workshop on Design Process Documentation and Fragmentation to be held at The Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations Federated Workshops (MALLOW 2010). 30th of August - 2nd of September, 2010.Domaine Valpre - Lyon, France ( website). Members are warmly invited to SUBMIT a paper and ATTEND the event.
30-09-09: A draft of the specification for the Process Documentation Template is available in the Working Docs page
18-06-09: A blog is now available for discussion. See here. Contact chairs for more information
27-05-09: The call for proposals (see this pdf) has been disseminated by means of several mailing lists. Please contribute with your opinion and, of course, disseminate it.
13-05-09: During the AAMAS'09 FIPA meeting (Budapest, 13 May, 2009) the Design Process Documentation and Fragmentation Working group has been officially presented to FIPA members.

NOTE: This is the working website of the DPDF WG. For the Official FIPA Design Process Documentation and Fragmentation Working Group webite go here.

This working group will propose a definition of method fragment to be used during a situational method engineering process, the fundamental elements it is composed of and the metamodel it is based on.
The first step will be the identification of the most suitable process metamodel and notation: (i) for the representation of the existing design processes from which the fragments have to be extracted, and (ii) for the representation of fragments themselves. An important contribution about that might come from an OMG specification, the Software Process Engineering Metamodel 2.0 (SPEM), or from the ISO 24744 specification.
The second step will consist in the definition of a proper template for the description of agent-oriented design processes. Such a template will, obviously, refer to the selected process metamodel and suggest the adoption of good practices in documenting existing processes as well as defining new ones.
The third step will be the definition of the Method Fragment Structure and Documentation Template. This work will start from the results obtained by the FIPA Methodology Technical Committee (years 2003-2005).
The documentation and fragmentation of some existing design processes (members already committed for: ADELFE, ASEME, ASPECS, INGENIAS, GORMAS, PASSI, SODA) will be performed with the aim of defining guidelines and best practices for process fragmentation according to the specification provided in the Method Fragment Structure and Documentation Template.

The proposed work aims at providing the possibility of representing design processes and method fragments through the use of a standardized structure thus allowing the creation of sharable repositories and enabling an easier composition of new design processes.
In the future this standardized way of representing method fragments could be used for the implementation of fragments in a CAPE (Computer Aided Process Engineering) tool supporting the designer during the construction phases.

Chair	Massimo Cossentino (ICAR/CNR),
Co-Chairs	Ambra Molesini (ambra.molesini [at] unibo.it), Vincent Hilaire (vincent.hilaire [at] utbm.fr)
TC plan	Plan of the WG (.pdf, 104KB)
TC members	Members list

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