Tamer Ozsu gave a 1 hour seminar on RDF Data Management today at Politecnico di Milano.Tamer Ozsu, University of WaterlooWhat I found intriguing is the database and modeling perspective he has on RDF.We all know that RDF is a machine readable format for describing resources on the web based on triples. A triple is a … Continue reading RDF Data Management. Talk by Tamer Ozsu at Politecnico di Milano
I've been intrigued today by a bold tweet by Meinte Boersma (see his blog to know more about him and his activities) Any sufficiently advanced software development methodology is indistinguishable from model-driven. Meinte, I personally fully agree with you. Being also an advocate of Model driven development (and model driven in general, as this blog's … Continue reading Sufficiently advanced software development methodology
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?
WebRatio Cubes roaming San Francisco while I was engaged in the approval of the IFML RFP in Santa Clara, CA.After 9 months of participation to the OMG meetings, intensive interactions with stakeholders, and interesting feedback from big vendors and users (including IBM, Microsoft, Thales, NoMagic, SoftTeam, and others), OMG issued the official request for proposal … Continue reading Interaction Flow Modeling Language RFP issued at OMG
As the end of the year is approaching, I think it's time to draw some conclusions from the stats of this blog.Here is the list of the top 10 posts in terms of visits since they have been posted.The top-10 most visited posts in my ModelDrivenStar blog during its 2.5 years life (mainly on MDD, … Continue reading Most visited posts in the blog: stats and discussion
I really appreciated the provocative post by Chris Taylor on the potential of Social BPM to replace emails in business processes. While I see the final statement there a little bit too optimistic, total replacement is definitely in my dreams and I agree on the general trend.Actually, I see we are already in a hybrid … Continue reading Mobile and consumerization — keys for event-based Social BPM?
Today I wish to share with you some details about a new project I'll be involved in throughout the next three years. The project is called CUbRIK and addresses advanced search techniques and tools for multimedia and multimodal search, based on content-intensive, time-intensive and human-intensive scalable processes. The project aims at experimenting the integration of … Continue reading CUbRIK: content-intensive, time-intensive and human-intensive scalable search
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
Tomorrow (November 21st) I'll present two contributions to the 3rd international BPMN workshop in Luzern, Switzerland.My first speech will present our proposed notation for representing Social Business Processes within Social BPM scenarios. Social networking is more and more considered as crucial for helping organizations harness the value of informal relationships and weak ties, without compromising … Continue reading Representing Social BPM and WebML at the BPMN workshop 2011
Andrei Broder, Yahoo! ResearchAndrei Broder from Yahoo! Research gave two seminars at Politecnico di Milano on introduction to internet monetization (in Como) and on targeted advertising (in Milano) as a branch of computational advertising.Computational advertising is about finding the best match between a given user in a given context and a suitable advertisement.The context can … Continue reading Andrei Broder, Yahoo! VP on computational advertising: Seminar on Targeted Advertising.
