Engineering Methods in the Service-Oriented Context : 4th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on Method Engineering, ME 2011, Paris, France, April 20-22, 2011, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on Method Engineering, ME 2011, held in Paris, France, in April 2011. The 13 revised full papers and 6 short papers presented together with the abstracts of two keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on situated method engineering, method engineering foundations, customized methods, tools for method engineering, new trends to build methods, and method engineering services. Front Matter....Pages - An Assessment of Method Engineering....Pages 1-1 Application of Method Engineering Principles in Practice: Lessons Learned and Prospects for the Future....Pages 2-3 Incremental Method Engineering for Process Improvement - A Case Study....Pages 4-18 Design Solution Analysis for the Construction of Situational Design Methods....Pages 19-33 A Method Base for Enterprise Architecture Management....Pages 34-48 Towards the Use of Granularity Theory for Determining the Size of Atomic Method Fragments for Use in Situational Method Engineering....Pages 49-63 A Method Assessment Framework....Pages 64-76 Towards Common Ground in SME: An Ontology of Method Descriptors....Pages 77-90 Towards a Method for Service Design....Pages 91-96 A Case Study for Improving a Collaborative Design Process....Pages 97-101 Incorporating Model-Driven Techniques into Requirements Engineering for the Service-Oriented Development Process....Pages 102-107 The Online Method Engine: From Process Assessment to Method Execution....Pages 108-122 A Deductive View on Process-Data Diagrams....Pages 123-137 Turning Method Engineering Support into Reality....Pages 138-152 Towards a Method for Engineering Social Web Services....Pages 153-167 Developing Families of Method-Oriented Architecture....Pages 168-183 Agile Service Development: A Rule-Based Method Engineering Approach....Pages 184-189 Bridging the Gap between Business Processes and Service Composition through Service Choreographies....Pages 190-203 Towards Construction of Situational Methods for Service Identification....Pages 204-218 An MDA Method for Service Modeling by Formalizing REA and Open-edi Business Frameworks with SBVR....Pages 219-224 A Scenario-Based Governance Method for Coordination of Service Life Cycles....Pages 225-230 Back Matter....Pages -