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Fifteen Years of Industrial Model-Driven Development in Software Front-ends. Find WebRatio and IFML on the Novatica Journal (in Spanish!)

Novatica, the official journal of the Spanish association of Computer Science Technicians (ATI), just published a monographic issue on "Adopción industrial de la ingeniería del software dirigida por models" (industrial adoption of model-driven software engineering practices). Together with a set of interesting experiences mainly in the Spanish market, the issue also features an article about … Continue reading Fifteen Years of Industrial Model-Driven Development in Software Front-ends. Find WebRatio and IFML on the Novatica Journal (in Spanish!)

Pattern-Based Specification of Crowdsourcing Applications – ICWE 2014 best paper

I'm really proud to announce that our paper "Pattern-Based Specification of Crowdsourcing Applications" has received the BEST PAPER award at ICWE 2014 (International Conference on Web Engineering), held in Toulouse in July 2014. The paper was authored by Alessandro Bozzon, Marco Brambilla, Stefano Ceri, Andrea Mauri, and Riccardo Volonterio. The work addresses the fact that … Continue reading Pattern-Based Specification of Crowdsourcing Applications – ICWE 2014 best paper

IFML – Interaction Flow Modeling Language 1.0 – My tutorial on UI and UX modeling & design at ICWE 2014

This year, ICWE - International Conference on Web Engineering, took place in Toulouse, France. Given the upcoming adoption by the OMG - Object Management Group of IFML, I decided to give a tutorial on it there. IFML, the Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) is designed for expressing content, user interaction and control behaviour of the … Continue reading IFML – Interaction Flow Modeling Language 1.0 – My tutorial on UI and UX modeling & design at ICWE 2014

CrowdServ: International Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Service Management @ ICSOC 2014

This year I am organizing the First  International Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Service Management, together with Alessandro Bozzon (TU Delft) and Khalid Belhajjame (Paris Dauphine Univ.). The objective of the first edition of CrowdServ which will be co-located withthe International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC) at Paris Dauphine University is to bring researchers and … Continue reading CrowdServ: International Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Service Management @ ICSOC 2014

ACM Computing Reviews "Notable Computing Books and Articles of 2013" – our VLDBJ special issue featured

ACM and Computing Reviews put out their list of notable books and articles of 2013. I'm glad that our "Special issue on structured and crowd-sourced data on the Web" published in the VLDB Journal (The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases, Springer) has been selected, together with only 2 others, as a notable issue … Continue reading ACM Computing Reviews "Notable Computing Books and Articles of 2013" – our VLDBJ special issue featured

Textual and Content-Based Search in Repositories of Web Application Models – TWEB paper

The paper "Textual and Content-Based Search in Repositories of Web Application Models" I co-authored together with Bojana Bislimovska, Alessandro Bozzon, and Piero Fraternali has now been published on the ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB). The article examines two different techniques for indexing and searching model repositories, with a focus on Web development projects encoded … Continue reading Textual and Content-Based Search in Repositories of Web Application Models – TWEB paper

Community-based Crowdsourcing – Our paper at WWW2014 SOCM

Today Andrea Mauri presented our paper "Community-based Crowdsourcing" at the SOCM Workshop co-located with the WWW 2014 conference. SOCM is the 2nd International Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Social Machines and is an interesting venue for discussing instrumentation, tooling, and software system aspects of online social network. The full program of the event … Continue reading Community-based Crowdsourcing – Our paper at WWW2014 SOCM

IFML 1.0: Interaction Flow Modeling Language approved by the OMG

After three years of work, IFML 1.0 is finally approved by the OMG! The Interaction Flow Modeling Language was actually adopted one year ago, in March 2013, as Beta specification by the Object Management Group (OMG). Since then, the IFML Finalization Task Force worked hard to bring the specification to perfection. The OMG Architecture Board … Continue reading IFML 1.0: Interaction Flow Modeling Language approved by the OMG

A standard UML profile of ArchiMate for Enterprise Architecture

Today at OMG a proposition has been made to going forward to a standardization of UML profile for Archimate. As such, it also acts as a bridge between  the OMG and the Open Group. ArchiMate is a visual modeling language for Enterprise Architecture. Current implementations of UML profiles for that are provided by SparxSystems and … Continue reading A standard UML profile of ArchiMate for Enterprise Architecture

Roman Pichler on Agile Product Strategy at the AgileForInnovation event

On March 14, 2014 Politecnico di Milano hosted the AgileForInnovation event, organized by CEFRIEL and the Software Engineering group at DEIB (more specifically, by Elisabetta di Nitto, in the picture with Roman Pichler). Elisabetta di Nitto and Roman Pichler The event started with a keynote by Roman Pichler on Agile Product Strategy, which was very … Continue reading Roman Pichler on Agile Product Strategy at the AgileForInnovation event