Yoshiaki Fukazawa received the B.E, M.E. and D.E. degrees in electrical engineering from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan in 1976, 1978 and 1986, respectively. He is now a professor of Department of Information and Computer Science, Waseda University. Also he is Director, Institute of Open Source Software, Waseda University. His research interests include software engineering especially reuse of object-oriented software and agent-based software.