James J. Odell

James Odell is a consultant, writer, and educator in the areas of agent-oriented and object-oriented systems, methodology, business process management (BPM), data and meta-data modeling, applied ontology, metadata-driven service oriented architecture (SOA), event-driven development (EDA/CEP), and complex adaptive systems (CAS). Throughout most of his forty-plus year career, Mr. Odell has been heavily involved in developing better methods to understand, communicate, and manage system requirements. Most recently, Mr. Odell is involved in ontology, agent-based and complex systems--and their application to business systems (including an agent-based UML called AUML). In particular, he has participated in designing and building multiagent systems (MAS) that enable their customers to dynamically manage multiple resources in changing and unpredictable environments. See: www.jamesodell.com