Computer-Aided Method Engineering: Designing Case Repositories for the 21st Century

Method engineering is a very young field. Generally, method engineering can be considered from engineering of an entire methodology for information systems development to engineering of modeling techniques according to project requirements. Computer aided method engineering is about generation and use of information systems design techniques according to user needs. Some times such environments are called generic tools or MetaCASE. Computer-Aided Method Engineering: Designing Case Repositories for the 21st Century presents a contribution on a methodology and architecture of a CASE repository, forwarding a theory that will bring about the component based development into CASE tool design and development covering a repository construction principle for the 21st century.

Ajantha Dahanayake is an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology and an associate professor at Open University in The Netherlands. She conducts research into CASE, method engineering, component -based development,information systems and telematics applications. She has worked at a number of Dutch organizations. A seasoned professional and author in this field. She gives lectures on information systems engineering-related topics and is the program chair of the information systems and software systems distance education program at the Open University.