After three years of work, IFML 1.0 is finally approved by the OMG! The Interaction Flow Modeling Language was actually adopted one year ago, in March 2013, as Beta specification by the Object Management Group (OMG). Since then, the IFML Finalization Task Force worked hard to bring the specification to perfection. The OMG Architecture Board … Continue reading IFML 1.0: Interaction Flow Modeling Language approved by the OMG
Daniel L. Moody from University of Twente gave a talk (and a full fledged tutorial) at OMG technical meeting in Reston, VA, on the principles for designing effective diagramming notations. His talk had this overall design:(click to enlarge)Daniel Moody wrote a famous paper on IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering titled:The “Physics” of Notations: Toward a … Continue reading Daniel Moody on "Designing diagramming notations that work": the physics of notations
If you have been extensively using software modeling tools, you have probably experienced the awful situation where you want to move models from one tool to the other, but this ends up not being possible.Why? Because you are using different languages? Not at all: even just moving a "standard" model from a modeler to another … Continue reading Model interoperabilty in MDE: a lost battle?
Today at the BPMN 2011 workshop in Luzern, Bruce Silver gave an interesting talk on the status of BPMN 2.0, its adoption, and his proposal for improving its general usage.I really appreciated the talk because:it focused on the ambiguities of the BPMN notation, even in the so acclaimed 2.0 versionit highlighted how users tend to … Continue reading Bruce Silver’s keynote speech at BPMN 2011 workshop: interoperability and other issues in BPMN and UML
In response to the really sensible question posted on eBizQ: What key methods do you use for applying design patterns in BPM? here is my viewpoint:I've been working both on software engineering (where design patterns have basically redefined the entire discipline) and in web and BP design.I think to pattern as reusable design solutions to … Continue reading Applying design patterns in BPM?
