Brian Henderson-Sellers

Research Interests:

Object-oriented analysis and design (For information, see the OPEN homepage)

Object-oriented metrics

Agent-oriented methodologies

Migration of organizations to object technology

Some Recent Research Papers of Interest:

For papers on OPEN, see www.open.org.au

Conferences of Possible Interest (OO/SE/IS)

Over recent years, we have organized a number of workshops. In particular, you may be interested in reading about the OOPSLA workshop on "Agent-Oriented Methodologies" which we organized, held in Seattle, November 2002; and in 2003, also at OOPSLA (October 26-30 in Anaheim, USA):

Second International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Methodologies

Workshop on Process Engineering for Object-Oriented and Component-Based Development

and one at the IBIMC in Cairo (December 2003)

2003 International Business Information Management Conference

In 2004, we again hosted two workshops at OOPSLA: (October 24-28 in Vancouver, Canada):

Third International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Methodologies

Second Workshop on Method Engineering for Object-Oriented and Component-Based Development

and one at the IBIMC in Amman (July 2004)

2004 International Business Information Management Conference

In 2005, we are hosting two workshops at OOPSLA: (October 16-20 in San Diego, USA):

Fourth International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Methodologies

Third Workshop on Method Engineering for Object-Oriented and Component-Based Development

Recent books of interest are "Agent-Oriented Information Systems" (edited by P. Giorgini, B. Henderson-Sellers and M. Winikoff) published by Springer, which contains the papers presented at the AOIS workshops in 2003, and "Agent-Oriented Information Systems II" (edited by P. Bresciani, B. Henderson-Sellers, G. Low, P. Giorgini and M. Winikoff) published by Springer, which contains the AOIS2004 best papers.

The COTAR website has a wealth of information relating to OO/SE research.

Qualifications:

DSc, University of London

PhD, Leicester University

MSc, Reading University

BSc(Hons), A.R.C.S., Imperial College, London

Graduate Management Qualification, UNSW

Information Technology Diploma, City and Guilds

Teaching: Semester 1

Object-oriented modelling.
Subject outline (2008).
Outline of lecture content
Assignment

Copies of the 2008 lecture slides for Object-Oriented Modelling (32536) are available here as downloadable pdf files
Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
Module 4
Module 5 part a
Module 5 part b
Module 6
Module 7
Module 8
Module 9


Here are some exemplar answers to Quiz 2
Paper C page 1
Paper C page 2
Paper D page 1
Paper D page 2


Here are some exemplar answers to Quiz 3
Paper E page 1
Paper E page 2
Paper F page 1
Paper F page 2

Some additional reading material can be found here:
Information Age 1
Information Age 2

Interim marks (prior to examination)

Available here

Teaching: Semester 2

Object-oriented process.
Subject outline
Project information

Copies of the 2008 lecture slides for Object-Oriented Process (32106) are available here as downloadable pdf files
Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
Module 4
Module 5
Module 6
Module 7
Module 8
Module 9
Module 10
Module 11

Administrative Responsibilities:

Director of Centre for Object-Oriented Technology Applications and Research: COTAR

Brief Biography:

BRIAN HENDERSON-SELLERS is Professor of Information Systems, Director of the Centre for Object Technology Applications and Research (COTAR) at the University of Technology, Sydney and a member of the Department of Software Engineering. He is author of numerous papers including eleven books on object technology and is well-known (MOSES, COMMA and OPEN) and in OO metrics. More recently, he has become involved in the application of method engineering concepts to agent-oriented methodology construction.

Brian is Editor of the International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering and on the editorial board of the Journal of Object Technology and Software and Systems Modelling and was for many years the Regional Editor of Object-Oriented Systems, a member of the editorial board of Object Magazine/Component Strategies and Object Expert. In 1990, he founded the Object-Oriented Special Interest Group of the Australian Computer Society (NSW Branch) and was Chairman of the Computerworld Object Developers' Awards committee for ObjectWorld 94 and 95 (Sydney). He is co-founder and leader of the international OPEN Consortium. He is a frequent, invited speaker at international OT conferences, and, in 1999, he was voted number 3 in the Who's Who of Object Technology (Handbook of Object Technology, CRC Press, Appendix N). Brian's current research projects include OO and AO modelling (particularly aggregation in UML and OML), OO Process (OPEN), AO methodology construction, organizational transition to OO, OO metrics (including requirements and complexity metrics), OO ontologies and component-based development. He has been involved in review panels for both UML and SPEM de facto standards of the Object Management Group and the co-editor of the ISO/IEC 24744 standard: "Software Engineering: Metamodel for Development Methodologies" published in February 2007.

In July 2001, Professor Henderson-Sellers was awarded a Doctor of Science (DSc) from the University of London for his research contributions in object-oriented methodologies.