I was listening at R. Martin Chavez, Goldman Sachs deputy CFO just last month in Harvard at the ComputeFest 2017 event, more precisely, the SYMPOSIUM ON THE FUTURE OF COMPUTATION IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING on "Data, Dollars, and Algorithms: The Computational Economy" held in Harvard on Thursday, January 19, 2017. His claim was that Banks are essentially API providers. The … Continue reading The role of Big Data in Banks
Fluxedo joined forces with the Observatory of Digital Innovation in Arts & Culture Heritage (Osservatorio per l'innovazione digitale nei beni e attività culturali) by the School of Management (MIP) of Politecnico di Milano, for covering the social media analytics of Italian and international museums. The results of the work have been presented during an event on January … Continue reading The Dawn of a new Digital Renaissance in Cultural Heritage
After months of preparation, here we are. This week we kicked off the second edition of the DataShack program on Data Science that brings together interdisciplinary teams of data science, software engineering & computer science, and design students from Harvard (Institute of Applied Computational Science) and Politecnico di Milano (faculties of Engineering and Design). The … Continue reading The Harvard-Politecnico Joint Program on Data Science in full bloom
Within a completely new line of research, we are exploring the power of modeling for human behaviour analysis, especially within social networks and/or in occasion of large scale live events. Participation to challenges within social networks is a very effective instrument for promoting a brand or event and therefore it is regarded as an excellent … Continue reading Modeling and Analyzing Engagement in Social Network Challenges
This year I'm co-organizing with Davide Rossi and a bunch of experts in Business Process Management and Enterprise Architecture a new event called BPM-EA, which aims at bringing together the broad topics of business processes, modeling, and enterprise architecture. These disciplines are quickly evolving and intertwining with each other, and are often referred to with the broad … Continue reading Business Process Management & Enterprise Architecture track of ACM SAC 2017
I report here some highlights of the keynote speech by Xin Luna Dong at the 16th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2016). Incidentally, she is now moving to Amazon for starting a new project on building an Amazon knowledge base. Building knowledge bases still remains a challenging task. First, one has to decide how … Continue reading Keynote from Google Research on Building Knowlege Bases at #ICWE2016
This year we decided to be present at ICWSM 2016 in Cologne, with two contributions that basically blend model driven software engineering and big data analysis, to provide value to users and citizens both in terms of high quality software and added value information provision. We joined with two papers, respectively: Model Driven Development of … Continue reading Modeling and data science for citizens: multicultural diversity and environmental monitoring at ICWSM
As model-driven engineering practitioners, we sometimes encounter weird modelling notations for the languages we use... and this is also definitely true for modelling language adopters! We always end up wondering who could ever think about such or such terrible syntax for a language, also for very well established notations (including, for instance, some pieces of … Continue reading Ready to crowdsourcing your modeling language notation?
Following up on my previous post on the actual "Engineering" contribution of Model Driven Engineering, here is the final result of the 2-day poll posted on twitter: While this is definitely not a statistically significant benchmark, I think it's a significant insight on the field and on how ourselves (MDE practitioners and researchers) see the … Continue reading No, MDE is not Engineering!
Within ModelsWard 2016, just after the opening speech I gave on February 19 in Rome, the opening panel has been about the current maturity of model-driven engineering. I also hosted a poll on twitter on this matter (results are available in this other post). I'm happy the panelists raised several issues I pointed out myself in the introduction … Continue reading How Mature is of Model-driven Engineering as an Engineering Discipline? – Panel with Manfred Broy, Paola Inverardi and Lionel Briand
