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Overview

Ivar Jacobson is affiliated with Ivar Jacobson International in the United Kingdom and has contributed to the field of computer science, specifically within software engineering and information systems. Their research spans multiple subfields, including software and information systems, with a focus on software engineering techniques and practices, research, and software reliability and analysis.

The scientist has published four papers related to these topics. Among these are:

  • Scrum Essentials Cards, published in 2020 in Queue
  • Better Scrum through Essence, published in 2022 in Software Practice and Experience
  • Use Cases are Essential, published in 2023 in Queue

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Jeff Sutherland
  • Brian Kerr
  • Barbora Bühnová
  • Alistair Cockburn

The scientist's publications have appeared primarily in the venues Queue and Software Practice and Experience, with two papers in Queue and one in Software Practice and Experience.

The main fields of study covered by their work are:

  • Computer Science

Within the subfields of study, the focus areas include:

  • Information Systems
  • Software

The prominent research topics addressed include:

  • Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
  • Software Engineering Research
  • Software Reliability and Analysis Research

Best Publications

  • The Unified Modeling Language User Guide

    Grady Booch;James Rumbaugh;Ivar Jacobson

  • The unified modeling language reference manual

    James Rumbaugh;Ivar Jacobson;Grady Booch

  • Ingeniería del Software

    José Martín;Olguín Espinoza;M.C. Martín;Contenido del Curso

  • The unified software development process

    Ivar Jacobson;Grady Booch;James Rumbaugh

  • Object Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven Approach

    Ivar Jacobson

  • Object-oriented software engineering

    Ivar Jacobson

  • El proceso unificado de desarrollo de software

    Ivar Jacobson;James Rumbaugh;Grady Booch

  • Unified Modeling Language User Guide, The (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)

    Grady Booch;James Rumbaugh;Ivar Jacobson

  • Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual, The (2nd Edition)

    James Rumbaugh;Ivar Jacobson;Grady Booch

  • The unified modelling language reference manual

    James Rumbaugh;Grady Booch;Ivar Jacobson

  • El lenguaje unificado de modelado

    James Rumbaugh;Ivar Jacobson

  • The Object Advantage: Business Process Reengineering With Object Technology

    Ivar Jacobson;Maria Ericsson;Agneta Jacobson

  • Aspect-Oriented Software Development with Use Cases

    Ivar Jacobson;Pan-Wei Ng

  • The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual, Second Edition

    James Rumbaugh;Ivar Jacobson;Grady Booch;Charles Ashbacher

  • Object-oriented development in an industrial environment

    Ivar Jacobson

  • Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities, and Collaborations

    Rebecca Wirfs-Brock;Alan McKean;Ivar Jacobson;John Vlissides

  • The essence of software engineering: the SEMAT kernel

    Ivar Jacobson;Pan-Wei Ng;Paul E. McMahon;Ian Spence

  • Reengineering of old systems to an object-oriented architecture

    Ivar Jacobson;Fredrik Lindström

  • Use Cases -- Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

    Ivar Jacobson

  • Where's the Theory for Software Engineering?

    P. Johnson;M. Ekstedt;I. Jacobson

  • Use Cases and Aspects-Working Seamlessly Together

    Unknown

  • Aspect-Oriented Software Development with Use Cases (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)

    Ivar Jacobson;Pan-Wei Ng

Frequent Co-Authors

Grady Booch
Grady Booch IBM (United States)
Mary Beth Rosson
Mary Beth Rosson Pennsylvania State University
Pontus Johnson
Pontus Johnson Royal Institute of Technology
Brian Henderson-Sellers
Brian Henderson-Sellers University of Technology Sydney
Gregor Engels
Gregor Engels University of Paderborn
Mathias Ekstedt
Mathias Ekstedt Royal Institute of Technology
Gregor Kiczales
Gregor Kiczales University of British Columbia

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