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
The Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) is now one step closer to standardization by Object Management Group (OMG). On February 18 the revised version of the IFML specification has been submitted to OMG by a consortium lead by WebRatio and comprising also Fujitsu, Model Driven Solutions, Softeam, and Thales.The new submission has improved a lot … Continue reading IFML on its way towards OMG standardization
It's with great pleasure that I announce my invited post on the modeling-languages.com blog, curated by Jordi Cabot.First, I'm glad he invited me. Second, I'm happy that he asked for a post on Social-enabled Web application modeling.I mean, we all see how social technologies are transforming our life. And yet, the modeling community and the software … Continue reading My invited post on Modeling Social Web Apps (on www.modeling-languages.com)
I think we are all familiar with the Function Point concept, used for evaluation of the size of a software application in terms of functional features. We are all well aware of the limits of this unit of measure, to the point that it is considered rather obsolete in the software engineering community: subjectivity is … Continue reading Automated Function Point (AFP) adopted as a standard by OMG
It's with great pleasure that I can announce that the model-driven approach proposed by WebRatio has won the Special Mention Award within the Global Awards for Excellence in BPM and Workflow, promoted by WfMC, bpm.com, and Future Strategies.You can read the full announcement here and you can follow the webinar of the award ceremony on SlideShare … Continue reading Global Awards for Excellence in BPM & Workflow – by Keith Swenson and Nathaniel Palmer
Questo workshop si occupa di presentare le tecniche moderne di progettazione e deployment di processi di business a livello enterprise, sfruttando le potenzialità degli approcci model-driven (MDE - Model Driven Engineering) e le piattaforme basate su cloud.Il workshop mostra come sia possibile affrontare con tecniche agili le problematiche di definizione e ristrutturazione di processi aziendali, … Continue reading BPM and Cloud, the ideal partners. SMAU 2012 presentation
Model-Driven Software Engineering in Practice. See more on www.mdse-book.com. I'm really proud to announce that a huge joint effort with Jordi Cabot and Manuel Wimmer has finnally reached his end. Our new book on model-driven software engineering, on which we have been working for almost one year, is finally published! The book is titled Model-Driven Software … Continue reading My new book on Model-Driven Software Engineering
Being quite involved both in the BPM field and in social networking, personal productivity tools, and Web application design, I'm always appalled when I think about how many findings and practices designed for businesses could benefit our everyday life too.One specific example of this is about the BPM practices and their potential added value for … Continue reading Personal process management: the overlooked side of BPM
V.S. Subrahmanian (Univ. of Maryland)As part of the Data Management in the Social Semantic Web workshop (DMSSW workshop) at the ASONAM 2012 conference in Istanbul, Turkey, V.S. Subrahmanian (University of Maryland) gave an interesting talk on efficient subgraph matching on (social) networks.Queries are defined as graphs themselves, with some of the places defined as constants … Continue reading Efficient Subgraph Matching – Keynote by V.S. Subrahmanian at ASONAM 2012
At this point of the year, just before vacation time, it makes sense to me to think to Web Engineering practices at large and draw some trends and outlook for the field after this year.As a PC chair of ICWE 2012 (International Conference on Web Engineering), this year I can claim I had a privileged view over … Continue reading Trends in Web engineering: my 4 takes from ICWE 2012
