This paper proposes a functional ontology of reputation for agents. The goal of this ontology is twofold. First, to put together the broad knowledge about reputation produced in some areas of interest such as psychology and artificial intelligence, mainly multi-agent systems. Second, to represent that knowledge in a structured form. The functional ontology of reputation employs the primitive categories of knowledge used in the Functional Ontology of Law proposed by Valente [16]. We claim that the concepts of the legal world can be used to model the social world, through the extension of the concept of legal rule to social norm and the internalization of social control mechanisms in the agent's mind, so far externalized in legal institutions

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Abstract-Software processes, as software products, are variable across projects and thus a one-size-fits-all approach does not work out for development processes. We propose Meduse, an approach for tailoring development processes according to project needs. Such an approach, which is based on software product line and method engineering techniques, takes into account processes similarities (i.e. commonalities) and differences (i.e. variabilities), as well as reusable process fragments. Having processes tailored on demand according to the project needs shall reduce project risks, rise best practices adoption by the development team, support project planning and budget managing, among other benefits.

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