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Need to ask your analysts what they want?

Then you have a problem!The problem is not that they are not able to collect from customers what they wanted. Sometimes they know very well, even too much. Sometimes they deliberately (and wisely) decide not to consider some requests. The price could be to live with the complaints of customers. All this is addressed very … Continue reading Need to ask your analysts what they want?

Multiplatform Reactive Crowdsourcing based on Social Networks – WWW2013

In this post I want to report on our paper on Reactive Crowdsourcing presented at the WWW 2013 conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.Here is a quick summary of motivation and idea, together with some relevant materials:PresentationDemonstration VideoFull PaperNeed for controlWe believe that an essential aspect for building effective crowdsourcing computations is the ability of "controlling … Continue reading Multiplatform Reactive Crowdsourcing based on Social Networks – WWW2013

OMG IFML webinars in English, Spanish and Italian

For your information, we will give a webinar dedicated to the new OMG standard IFML (a modeling language for defining the User Interaction of software applications, born as evolution and extension of WebML) and its practical use within model-driven approaches that go down to the generation of industrial applications upon web, mobile and proprietary platforms, … Continue reading OMG IFML webinars in English, Spanish and Italian

Gems on MDE and UML by Jean Bézivin (and others)

I'd like to share and write down in a more permanent way some thoughts and messages I recollected from yesterday's twitter interactions with Jean Bézivin on Model Driven Engineering (MDE) and UML.I'm sure future generations will appreciate my writeup of these small, hidden gems that otherwise would have gone lost in the Twitter flurry 🙂 . … Continue reading Gems on MDE and UML by Jean Bézivin (and others)

At full throttle towards IFML with WebRatio

With its updated site and recent blog post from its CEO Stefano Butti, WebRatio is allowing its customers to move at full throttle towards the new OMG standard IFML, the Interaction Flow Modeling Language.In particular, WebRatio is now granting the availability of both an opensource IFML editor with proof of concept implementation of integrated fUML and Alf runtime … Continue reading At full throttle towards IFML with WebRatio

Success story paper: Large-scale Model-Driven Engineering of Web User Interaction with WebML and WebRatio

Our paper "Large-scale Model-Driven Engineering of Web User Interaction: The WebML and WebRatio experience" has been published online on Elsevier's journal: Science of Computer Programming, in the special issue Success Stories in Model Driven Engineering (edited by Davide Di Ruscio, Richard Paige, Alfonso Pierantonio).The history we report spans across a decade that has seen a … Continue reading Success story paper: Large-scale Model-Driven Engineering of Web User Interaction with WebML and WebRatio

IFML is now adopted and published by OMG, Wikipedia, and YouTube

Along with the continuing consolidation process of the Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) within OMG, we are now starting our effort of documenting and disseminating IFML.The three most recent resources I wish to point at are:Official publishing of IFML in the OMG specification catalogA new Wikipedia page on the languageA new demonstration video on the … Continue reading IFML is now adopted and published by OMG, Wikipedia, and YouTube

Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) adopted as a standard by OMG

It's with great pleasure and also some pride that I'm announcing that the Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) has been adopted as a standard by OMG during the technical meeting held in Reston, VA this week.This is an important result we have been pursuing for more than two years now (and ultimately have its roots … Continue reading Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) adopted as a standard by OMG