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
Author: Marco Brambilla
Presentation at Code Generation 2012: User Interaction Modeling: current status of the standardization process
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
RDF Data Management. Talk by Tamer Ozsu at Politecnico di Milano
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
Sufficiently advanced software development methodology
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
Model interoperabilty in MDE: a lost battle?
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?
Interaction Flow Modeling Language RFP issued at OMG
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
Most visited posts in the blog: stats and discussion
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
Mobile and consumerization — keys for event-based Social BPM?
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?
CUbRIK: content-intensive, time-intensive and human-intensive scalable search
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
Bruce Silver’s keynote speech at BPMN 2011 workshop: interoperability and other issues in BPMN and UML
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