Assistance for integrating methods based on conceptual graphs

Summary form only given. The existing development methods do not always provide users with efficient guidelines for their work, and do not enable them to share and to reuse their experiences. An environment for building new methods by reuse and assemblage of the existing methods components will be very helpful. This assembling process will be referred to as integration. We provide a solution for method integration. It is based on Sowa´s conceptual graph theory. This solution is a tool for systematizing processes of methods integration and their instances.