It took me a while before deciding to start this diary, but given that the trip has been long and it's likely to be, I finally opted to share some of my experiences. Don't expect to find enlightening findings here. I basically want to share the most hilarious and embarrassing situations I stumbled upon while … Continue reading Let’s enjoy software engineering
Join the Webinar dedicated to IFML and its use integrated with other modeling languages in the MDA suite, such as UML and BPMN!The webinar will introduce the basics of the IFML language and will demonstrate the advantages of using it together with BPMN diagrams, UML use case, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, and class diagrams. IFML … Continue reading Webinars on IFML and integration with UML and BPMN
IFML and its standardization process has raised quite a lot of attention recently.As you may know, the OMG (Object Management Group) adopted IFML as a standard in March (you can read the story here and the official standard spec here).Now, several initiatives are pushing towards wide dissemination and adoption:Thanos Zolotas giving a seminar on IFML.Gustavo … Continue reading IFML – the word starts spreading
We are finally ready to announce our new book: Web Information Retrieval Publisher: Springer Verlag Series: Data-Centric Systems and Applications Authors: Stefano Ceri, Alessandro Bozzon, Marco Brambilla, Emanuele Della Valle, Piero Fraternali, Silvia Quarteroni. 282 pages, 120 illustrations. The book will be launched at VLDB in August 2013, but you are able to preorder … Continue reading Web Information Retrieval – the book
I'm happy to report that a post of ours on Reactive and Multiplatform Crowdsourcing has been featured on the renowned CrowdResearch blog (Follow the Crowd).The editorial and advisory team of the blog is an exceptional one, including:Michael Bernstein, Stanford UniversityAlex Quinn, University of MarylandEd H. Chi, Google ResearchRob Miller, MITand many others.The post puts the … Continue reading Featured on CrowdResearch blog (Follow the Crowd)
Yesterday, I gave my first webinar on IFML.As you may already know, IFML stands for Interaction Flow Modeling Language and is the new OMG standard designed for expressing the user interaction and control behaviour of the front-end of software applications. The Interaction Flow Modeling Language has been adopted as a standard by OMG in March … Continue reading Introducing the Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML)
For your information, we will give a webinar dedicated to the new OMG standard IFML (a modeling language for defining the User Interaction of software applications, born as evolution and extension of WebML) and its practical use within model-driven approaches that go down to the generation of industrial applications upon web, mobile and proprietary platforms, … Continue reading OMG IFML webinars in English, Spanish and Italian
I'd like to share and write down in a more permanent way some thoughts and messages I recollected from yesterday's twitter interactions with Jean Bézivin on Model Driven Engineering (MDE) and UML.I'm sure future generations will appreciate my writeup of these small, hidden gems that otherwise would have gone lost in the Twitter flurry 🙂 . … Continue reading Gems on MDE and UML by Jean Bézivin (and others)
With its updated site and recent blog post from its CEO Stefano Butti, WebRatio is allowing its customers to move at full throttle towards the new OMG standard IFML, the Interaction Flow Modeling Language.In particular, WebRatio is now granting the availability of both an opensource IFML editor with proof of concept implementation of integrated fUML and Alf runtime … Continue reading At full throttle towards IFML with WebRatio
The Object Management Group (OMG) has released today the new official logo of IFML, the Interaction Flow Modeling Language that became a standard in March 2013.The logo is inspired from the well-known UML logo. This is not just a graphical similarity. The aim is to underline immediately in the name and visual representation that IFML is … Continue reading IFML: and here comes the official logo!
