Author: Marco Brambilla

Making Social BPM mean Business – Sandy Kemsley’s seminar at BPM Europe 2012 by IRM-UK

by Marco Brambilla, posted in Uncategorized

While attending the BPM Europe Conference 2012, I started by following the seminar by Sandy Kemsley on Social Business Process Management.She brought up a large set of interesting issues related to Social BPM: Social BPM dimensionsDimensions of complexity can be orthogonalized and well managed:Structure: how much structured is the processInternal Collaboration: how much internal collaboration … Continue reading Making Social BPM mean Business – Sandy Kemsley’s seminar at BPM Europe 2012 by IRM-UK

6th MDA and BPM forum 2012, Milan, Italy

by Marco Brambilla, posted in Uncategorized

Today I attended the MDA forum 2012, organized by Soluta.net and held in Milan, Italy. The topic of this year has been: "BPM and MDA". WebRatio was sponsoring the event and also had a presentation during the day, given by Stefano Butti. Here is a short summary of the day, which has been extremely interesting … Continue reading 6th MDA and BPM forum 2012, Milan, Italy

Answering search queries with CrowdSearcher – WWW2012

by Marco Brambilla, posted in social network

Our paper: Answering search queries with CrowdSearcherhas been accepted and presented at WWW 2012 in Lyon.Here is the abstract:Web users are increasingly relying on social interaction to complete and validate the results of their search activities. While search systems are superior machines to get world-wide information, the opinions collected within friends and expert/local communities can ultimately … Continue reading Answering search queries with CrowdSearcher – WWW2012

CrowdSearch 2012: my experience at the First International Workshop On Crowdsourcing Web Search at WWW2012

by Marco Brambilla, posted in Uncategorized

Last week I have been attending WWW 2012 in Lyon and within it I joined the First International Workshop on Crowdsourcing Web search (CrowdSearch 2012) on April 17 to April 20 in Lyon, France. I enjoyed a lot the technical contributions and the extremely lively discussion and feedback from the audience (50+ people throughout the day).The program … Continue reading CrowdSearch 2012: my experience at the First International Workshop On Crowdsourcing Web Search at WWW2012

Code Generation 2012 – from geeky (programming) interfaces to user interfaces

by Marco Brambilla, posted in modeling

For the second year, I've been attending the event called Code Generation, held in Cambridge, UK and organized by Software Acumen. For the second year, the event has been a quite good mix of practitioners, vendors and experienced evangelists.During the event, Emanuele Molteni (product manager of WebRatio) and I have given a talk on User … Continue reading Code Generation 2012 – from geeky (programming) interfaces to user interfaces

What’s the iPad for BPM?

by Marco Brambilla, posted in Uncategorized

It has been a while since a dangerous albeit crucial question has been posed to the Business Process Management community, starting from a provoking statement by Theo Priestley in one of his posts (BPM must die!). The question that circulated around is simple: is BPM dead?The question has collected a lot of attention, especially after it has been selected … Continue reading What’s the iPad for BPM?

IFML.org published for reporting on Interaction Flow Modeling Language

by Marco Brambilla, posted in Uncategorized

I wish to announce that we have just open the new ifml.org web site, where you can find information on the Interaction Flow Modeling Language and updates on the status of the standardization process within OMG.As you may remember IFML is meant to be a domain-specific modeling language for describing model-driven specification of user interactions.The … Continue reading IFML.org published for reporting on Interaction Flow Modeling Language

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

by Marco Brambilla, posted in social network

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

Presentation at Code Generation 2012: User Interaction Modeling: current status of the standardization process

by Marco Brambilla, posted in Uncategorized

Together with Emanuele Molteni, I will give a speech at Code Generation 2012 on:  User Interaction Modeling: current status of the standardization process, from the requirements to the language.In this presentation we will go through our 15-years experience of user interaction modeling for the Web, based on WebML and WebRatio, and we will delve into … Continue reading Presentation at Code Generation 2012: User Interaction Modeling: current status of the standardization process