Stephen J. Mellor (born 1952) is an American computer scientist, developer of the Ward–Mellor method for

real-time computing Real-time computing (RTC) is the computer science term for hardware and software systems subject to a "real-time constraint", for example from event to system response. Real-time programs must guarantee response within specified time constra ...

, the Shlaer–Mellor method, and

Executable UML Executable UML (xtUML or xUML) is both a software development method and a highly abstract software language. It was described for the first time in 2002 in the book "Executable UML: A Foundation for Model-Driven Architecture". The language "combine ...

, and signatory to the Agile Manifesto.

Biography

Mellor received a BA in computer science from the

University of Essex The University of Essex is a public research university in Essex, England. Established by royal charter in 1965, Essex is one of the original plate glass universities. Essex's shield consists of the ancient arms attributed to the Kingdom of Es ...

in 1974, and started working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland as a programmer in BCPL. In 1977 he became software engineer at the

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), commonly referred to as the Berkeley Lab, is a United States national laboratory that is owned by, and conducts scientific research on behalf of, the United States Department of Energy. Located in ...

, and in 1982 consultant at Yourdon, Inc. At Yourdon in cooperation with Paul Ward they developed the ''Ward–Mellor method'', and published the book-series ''Structured Development for Real Time Systems'' in 1985. Together with Sally Shlaer he founded ''Project Technology'' in 1985. That company was acquired by Mentor Graphics in 2004. Mellor stayed as chief scientist of the Embedded Systems Division at Mentor Graphics for another two years, and is self-employed since 2006. Since 1998 Mellor has contributed to the

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, chairing the consortium that added executable actions to the

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, and the specification of

model-driven architecture Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is a software design approach for the development of software systems. It provides a set of guidelines for the structuring of specifications, which are expressed as models. Model Driven Architecture is a kind of doma ...

(MDA). He is also chairing the advisory board of the ''

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'' magazine. Since 2013, Mellor has served as CTO for the

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Publications

* 1985. ''Structured Development for Real-Time Systems: Essential Modeling Techniques''. With Paul T. Ward. Prentice Hall. * 1986. ''Structured Development for Real-Time Systems: Implementation Modeling Techniques (Structured Development for Real-Time Systems Vol. 1)''. With Paul T. Ward. Prentice Hall. * 1988. ''Object Oriented Systems Analysis: Modeling the World in Data''. With Sally Shlaer. Prentice Hall. * 1992. ''Object Life Cycles: Modeling the World In States''. With Sally Shlaer. Prentice Hall. * 2002. ''Executable UML: A Foundation for Model Driven Architecture''. With Marc J. Balcer. Addison-Wesley. * 2004. ''MDA Distilled''. With Kendall Scott, Axel Uhl, Dirk Weise. Addison-Wesley. Articles, a selection:Mellor, Stephen J.
DBLP Bibliography Server * 1989. "An object-oriented approach to domain analysis" with S. Shlaer. In: ''ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes''. Vol 14–5, July 1989. pp. 66–77 * 1997. "Why explore object methods, patterns, and architectures?" with Ralph Johnson. In: ''IEEE Software''. Vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 27–29. * 1999. "Softwareplatform-independent, precise action specifications for UML". With S. Tockey, R. Arthaud, P. LeBlanc - The Unified Modeling ..., 1999 * 2002. "Make models be assets". In: ''Commun. ACM'' Vol 45–11. pp. 76–78 * 2003.
A framework for aspect-oriented modeling
. Paper from 4th (AOSD) Modeling With (UML) Workshop, October 2003 * 2004.
Agile MDA
White paper 2004

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External links

Stephen J. Mellor
homepage
R. Whetton, M. Jones and D. Murray, "The use of Ward and Mellor Structured Methodology for the design of a complex real time system," IEE Colloquium on Computer Aided Software Engineering Tools for Real-Time Control, 1991, pp. 5/1-5/4.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mellor, Stephen J. 1952 births Living people British computer scientists Alumni of the University of Essex People associated with CERN Real-time technology Real-time computing Agile software development

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