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
Model Driven Enterprise Engineering (MDEE) is a concept proposed by Know Gravity, a company based in Zurich, Switzerland, that has been active in modeling and requirement engineering since 2000.They propose a pragmatic approach to integration of OMG and non-OMG modeling specification, so as to cover all the modeling needs of the enterprise (and not only … Continue reading Model Driven Enterprise Engineering (TM)
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)
Then you have a problem!The problem is not that they are not able to collect from customers what they wanted. Sometimes they know very well, even too much. Sometimes they deliberately (and wisely) decide not to consider some requests. The price could be to live with the complaints of customers. All this is addressed very … Continue reading Need to ask your analysts what they want?
In this post I want to report on our paper on Reactive Crowdsourcing presented at the WWW 2013 conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.Here is a quick summary of motivation and idea, together with some relevant materials:PresentationDemonstration VideoFull PaperNeed for controlWe believe that an essential aspect for building effective crowdsourcing computations is the ability of "controlling … Continue reading Multiplatform Reactive Crowdsourcing based on Social Networks – WWW2013
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
