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