Brian Henderson-Sellers (born January 1951) is an English computer scientist residing in Sydney, Australia, and Professor of Information Systems at the

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. He is also Director of the Centre for Object Technology and Applications at

Biography

Henderson-Sellers has received a BSc and A.R.C.S. in Mathematics from the

Imperial College London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

in 1972, a MSc from the

Reading University The University of Reading is a public university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading, a University of Oxford extension college. The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 192 ...

in 1973, and a PhD from

Leicester University , mottoeng = So that they may have life , established = , type = public research university , endowment = £20.0 million , budget = £326 million , chancellor = David Willetts , vice_chancellor = Nishan Canagarajah , head_label ...

in 1976. From 1976 to 1983 he was a lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at the

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in England and from 1983 at the department of mathematics. In 1988 he emigrated to Australia and became associate professor in the school of Information Systems at the

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. In 1990, he founded the Object-Oriented Special Interest Group of the Australian Computer Society. He is co-founder and leader of the international OPEN Consortium. Currently he is professor of Information Systems at the University of Technology Sydney. He is also Director of the Centre for Object Technology and Applications at University of Technology Sydney.Home Page
of Brian Henderson-Sellers. Retrieved 27 May 2009. He is also 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''. And he is associate editor of the ''Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures'' journal. Also he is a frequent, invited speaker at international OT conferences. In July 2001 Henderson-Sellers was awarded a Doctor of Science (DSc) from the

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for his research contributions in object-oriented methodologies.

Work

His research interests are object-oriented analysis and design, object-oriented metrics, agent-oriented methodologies, and the migration of organizations to object technology.

Object-oriented Process, Environment and Notation

Object-oriented Process, Environment and Notation (OPEN) is a third-generation, public domain, fully

object-oriented Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of " objects", which can contain data and code. The data is in the form of fields (often known as attributes or ''properties''), and the code is in the form of p ...

methodology and process. It encapsulates business issues, quality issues, modelling issues and reuse issues within its end-to-end lifecycle support for software development using the

paradigm. OPEN provides flexibility. Its metamodel-based framework can be tailored to individual domains or projects taking into account personal skills, organizational culture and requirements peculiar to each industry domain".

Publications

Henderson-Sellers is author of numerous papersBrian Henderson-Sellers
List of publications from the DBLP Bibliography Server. Retrieved 27 May 2009. including thirty-one books and is well known for his work in object-oriented and agent-oriented software development methodologies and situational method engineering (MOSES, COMMA and OPEN) and in OO metrics. A selection: * 1992. ''Book of object-oriented knowledge : object-oriented analysis, design, and implementation : a new approach to software engineering''. * 1994. ''Booktwo of object-oriented knowledge : the working object : object-oriented software engineering : methods and management''. With J.M. Edwards. * 1996. ''Object-oriented metrics : measures of complexity'' * 1997. ''OPEN process specification''. With Ian Graham and Houman Younessi. * 1998. ''OPEN Modeling Language (OML) reference manual''. With

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, Ian Graham, foreword by Meilir Page-Jones. * 1998. ''Object-oriented metamethods''. With A. Bulthuis. * 1998. ''OPEN toolbox of techniques''. With Anthony Simons and Houman Younessi. * 2000. ''Open modeling with UML''. With Bhuvan Unhelkar. * 2005. ''Agent-oriented methodologies''. With Paolo Giorgini (ed) * 2008. ''Metamodelling for software engineering''. With César González-Pérez. * 2008. ''Situational method engineering : fundamentals and experiences''. Edited with Jolita Raylte and Sjaak Brinkkemper. New York : Springer, 2008. * 2012. ''On the Mathematics of Modelling, Metamodelling, Ontologies and Modelling Languages'', Springer, 2012.

References

External links

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of Brian Henderson-Sellers
Object-oriented Process, Environment and Notation
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