The WebML Innovation Cycle: presentation

This is the presentatio I gave at the 10 Years celebration of WebRatio:The WebML innovation cyclehttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=10yearsofwebratio-innovationcycle-111014054243-phpapp01&stripped_title=the-webml-innovation-cycle&userName=mbrambilView more presentations from Marco Brambilla.To keep updated on my activities you can subscribe to the RSS feed of my blog or follow my twitter account (@MarcoBrambi).

10 years of WebRatio: thinking about our path to industrialization

Tomorrow we will celebrate 10 years of WebRatio: this is a good occasion for thinking about the path that led from a university research project to a recognized modeling language (WebML) and a solid, industrialized version of a toolsuite (WebRatio).The main ingredient of our history are basically: - a substrate for cross-fertilization coming from European … Continue reading 10 years of WebRatio: thinking about our path to industrialization

BPMN and Design Patterns for Engineering Social BPM Solutions

Our paper "BPMN and Design Patterns for Engineering Social BPM Solutions" (authored by Marco Brambilla, Piero Fraternali, and Carmen Vaca) has been presented today, August 29th, 2011, at the 4th Workshop on Business Process Management and Social Software (BPMS2’11), co-located with BPM 2011, in Clermont-Ferrand, France.This paper presents a process design methodology, supported by the … Continue reading BPMN and Design Patterns for Engineering Social BPM Solutions

Canonical XMI, MEF, IMM, SIMF, FACESEM. Highlights from the Salt Lake City OMG ADTF meeting, June 2011

I attended the OMG meeting in Salt Lake City from June 22 to June 24. Here are a few highlights from the Analysis and Design Task Force (ADTF) meeting I attended on Wednesday 22.An RFC for a canonical XMI formatPete Rivett is issuing today a RFC for a canonical XMI format at OMG.I think this … Continue reading Canonical XMI, MEF, IMM, SIMF, FACESEM. Highlights from the Salt Lake City OMG ADTF meeting, June 2011

WebML going mainstream? The path to standardization

As you may know, I’m involved as WebML scientific advisor with Web Models, the company that produces the WebRatio toolsuite. Among the various activities pursued by the company, with the support of Politecnico di Milano, we can count the evolution and promotion of the WebML language. Within this stream of work, the company recently decided … Continue reading WebML going mainstream? The path to standardization

Multi-faceted BPM: Turning a business process model into software automation

Turning a business process model into the specification, design and implementation of a software solution for process enactment is a non trivial task. It might be considered as not so relevant by business analysts (that typically focus more on BPR and BP optimization), but I think it's a crucial issue anyway.Indeed, the specified processes can … Continue reading Multi-faceted BPM: Turning a business process model into software automation

WebML and WebRatio – seminar at Politecnico di Bari

Yesterday, November 24, I gave a seminar at Politecnico di Bari. Here are the slides (just an excerpt from another, broader slideset I prepared)WebML, BPM, and WebRatiohttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=webmlpolibari-101125071708-phpapp02&stripped_title=webml-and-webr&userName=mbrambilView more presentations from Marco Brambilla.[googlemaps https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Politecnico+Di+Bari&sll=37.230328,-95.712891&sspn=49.543298,114.169922&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Politecnico+Di+Bari,+Via+Giovanni+Amendola,+132,+70126+Bari,+Puglia,+Italy&ll=41.109598,16.881009&spn=0.09299,0.222988&z=13&output=embed&w=425&h=350]

Interview with Stefano Butti (WebRatio) on modeling-languages.com

  Jordi Cabot has published an interesting interview to Stefano Butti, the CEO of WebRatio, on his blog (modeling-languages.com). It collects a nice set of insights and stories on MDD, WebML, and BPM, together with an overview of the history of the tool, its objectives and its current status.Read the interview now.You may also vote … Continue reading Interview with Stefano Butti (WebRatio) on modeling-languages.com

Again on BPM posting. Responses to Sandy Kemsley

Maintaining Consistency Across BPM Initiatives’ Content(November 3, Enterprise Irregulars) In response to a writeup by Sandy Kemsley on a user experince on MDD+BPM at Bank of America.Dear Sandy,Thank you so much for sharing this writeup and comment. Being a researcher on MDD and BPM, I'm glad to see that this recipe is getting more and … Continue reading Again on BPM posting. Responses to Sandy Kemsley