The paper "Textual and Content-Based Search in Repositories of Web Application Models" I co-authored together with Bojana Bislimovska, Alessandro Bozzon, and Piero Fraternali has now been published on the ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB). The article examines two different techniques for indexing and searching model repositories, with a focus on Web development projects encoded … Continue reading Textual and Content-Based Search in Repositories of Web Application Models – TWEB paper
Today Andrea Mauri presented our paper "Community-based Crowdsourcing" at the SOCM Workshop co-located with the WWW 2014 conference. SOCM is the 2nd International Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Social Machines and is an interesting venue for discussing instrumentation, tooling, and software system aspects of online social network. The full program of the event … Continue reading Community-based Crowdsourcing – Our paper at WWW2014 SOCM
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
Today at OMG a proposition has been made to going forward to a standardization of UML profile for Archimate. As such, it also acts as a bridge between the OMG and the Open Group. ArchiMate is a visual modeling language for Enterprise Architecture. Current implementations of UML profiles for that are provided by SparxSystems and … Continue reading A standard UML profile of ArchiMate for Enterprise Architecture
On March 14, 2014 Politecnico di Milano hosted the AgileForInnovation event, organized by CEFRIEL and the Software Engineering group at DEIB (more specifically, by Elisabetta di Nitto, in the picture with Roman Pichler). Elisabetta di Nitto and Roman Pichler The event started with a keynote by Roman Pichler on Agile Product Strategy, which was very … Continue reading Roman Pichler on Agile Product Strategy at the AgileForInnovation event
Code Generation, the premiere venue for model-driven addicted, is back in Cambridge for 2014!If you are in the field of software modeling, software languages, design and development tools, model interpretation, executability and (of course) code generation, you should definitely attend the event.The conference is a great mix of presentations, workshops and hands-on sessions.We also gave … Continue reading Code Generation conference is back!
On Friday February 28, 2014 the Como campus of Politecnico di Milano hosted the final workshop of the Lake Poli School (LaPS). Lake Poli School was born to address integration between universities and companies, alignment between higher education training and external needs, and cross-disciplinary interaction between students from different cultural background. LaPS is providing an … Continue reading Interdisciplinary projects results of Lake Poli School (LaPS) 2014 at Politecnico di Milano
A nice discussion has been triggered by Jean Bézivin yesterday on Twitter, starting from this video that gives an introduction to the Wolfram Language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9HqHVPeik//www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/_P9HqHVPeik?version=3&hl=en_US Wolfram Language introduces itself as a knowledge-based programming language. I think this is a very interesting and powerful approach. However, the online discussion among us modeling people focused on understanding … Continue reading Universal Modeling Languages vs. Meta-languages: the case of Wolfram Language
IFML 1.0 is almost here! As you may know by now, the OMG standard Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) is designed for expressing the content, user interaction and control behaviour of the front-end (aka view) of software applications. And if you don't know anything about IFML, you can just visit www.ifml.org or have a look at … Continue reading Sneak peek at IFML 1.0 (the Interaction Flow Modeling Language) by the OMG
Last Friday I participated to the kickoff event of Alta Scuola Politecnica, the school of excellence for Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino, which reunites the top students of the two universities for special events, courses and interdisciplinary projects. The reason I was there is that we are proposing an interdisciplinary project on Students' … Continue reading Students quality of life – interdisciplinary project
