A Vision towards the Cognification of Model-driven Software Engineering

Jordi Cabot, Robert Clarisó, Marco Brambilla and Sébastien Gerard submitted a visionary paper on Cognifying Model-driven Software Development to the workshop GrandMDE (Grand Challenges in Modeling) co-located with STAF 2017 in Margburg (Germany) on July 17, 2017. The paper advocates for the cross-domain fertilization of disciplines such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, behavioural analytics, social studies, cognitive … Continue reading A Vision towards the Cognification of Model-driven Software Engineering

Reason and meaning of (top) models

After a semester in teaching model driven software engineering in my Advanced Software Engineering course at Politecnico, I feel the urgency of echoing once again a few words about the reason of models, inspired also from some content in our last book on Model-driven Software Development, or MDSE (see more here or on www.mdse-book.com).By the way, … Continue reading Reason and meaning of (top) models

Social Informatics workshop: Social networking at work with human factors and technical platforms in mind

Today I'm attending an extremely interesting workshop on Social Informatics at University of Trento. The workshop gathers a diverse audience spanning from computer science to cognitive science and health. The program of the day included the following presentations: Supporting Social Interactions for Older Adults. Cristhian Parra, University of Trento, ItalyThis talk focused on ways for … Continue reading Social Informatics workshop: Social networking at work with human factors and technical platforms in mind