Stephen J. Mellor is a computer scientist

Computer scientist

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, developer of the Shlaer-Mellor

Shlaer-Mellor

The Shlaer-Mellor method, developed by Sally Shlaer and Stephen Mellor, is one of a number of object-oriented analysis / object-oriented design methods which arrived in the late 1980s in response to established weaknesses in the existing structured analysis and structured design techniques in...

 method and signatory to the Agile Manifesto.

Together with Sally Shlaer

Sally Shlaer

Sally Shlaer was the co-author of the Shlaer-Mellor approach to software development and co-founder of Project Technology Inc.With Stephen J. Mellor, she founded Project Technology Inc. in 1985, with the goal of making software development a rational, controllable, predictable, engineering process...

 he founded Project Technology in 1985. That company was acquired by Mentor Graphics

Mentor Graphics

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 in 2004.

Mellor was chief scientist of the Embedded Systems Division at Mentor Graphics

Mentor Graphics

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. He has contributed to the Object Management Group

Object Management Group

Object Management Group is a consortium, originally aimed at setting standards for distributed object-oriented systems, and is now focused on modeling and model-based standards.- Overview :...

, chairing the consortium that added executable actions to the UML

Unified Modeling Language

Unified Modeling Language is a standardized general-purpose modeling language in the field of object-oriented software engineering. The standard is managed, and was created, by the Object Management Group...

 and the specification of Model Driven Architecture. He is also chairing the advisory board of the IEEE Software

IEEE Software

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 magazine.

Publications

• Paul T. Ward, Stephen J. Mellor. Structured Development for Real-Time Systems: Essential Modeling Techniques. Prentice Hall, 1985.
• Stephen J. Mellor (Author), Paul T. Ward. Structured Development for Real-Time Systems: Implementation Modeling Techniques (Structured Development for Real-Time Systems Vol. 1). Prentice Hall, 1986.
• Sally Shlaer
  Sally Shlaer
  Sally Shlaer was the co-author of the Shlaer-Mellor approach to software development and co-founder of Project Technology Inc.With Stephen J. Mellor, she founded Project Technology Inc. in 1985, with the goal of making software development a rational, controllable, predictable, engineering process...
  
  , Stephen J. Mellor. Object Oriented Systems Analysis: Modeling the World in Data. Prentice Hall, 1988.
• Stephen J. Mellor, Sally Shlaer
  Sally Shlaer
  Sally Shlaer was the co-author of the Shlaer-Mellor approach to software development and co-founder of Project Technology Inc.With Stephen J. Mellor, she founded Project Technology Inc. in 1985, with the goal of making software development a rational, controllable, predictable, engineering process...
  
  . Object Life Cycles: Modeling the World In States. Prentice Hall, 1991.
• Stephen J. Mellor, Marc J. Balcer. Executable UML: A Foundation for Model Driven Architecture. Addison-Wesley, 2002.
• Stephen J. Mellor, Kendall Scott, Axel Uhl, Dirk Weise. MDA Distilled. Addison-Wesley, 2004.