For the second year, I've been attending the event called Code Generation, held in Cambridge, UK and organized by Software Acumen. For the second year, the event has been a quite good mix of practitioners, vendors and experienced evangelists.During the event, Emanuele Molteni (product manager of WebRatio) and I have given a talk on User … Continue reading Code Generation 2012 – from geeky (programming) interfaces to user interfaces
It has been a while since a dangerous albeit crucial question has been posed to the Business Process Management community, starting from a provoking statement by Theo Priestley in one of his posts (BPM must die!). The question that circulated around is simple: is BPM dead?The question has collected a lot of attention, especially after it has been selected … Continue reading What’s the iPad for BPM?
I wish to announce that we have just open the new ifml.org web site, where you can find information on the Interaction Flow Modeling Language and updates on the status of the standardization process within OMG.As you may remember IFML is meant to be a domain-specific modeling language for describing model-driven specification of user interactions.The … Continue reading IFML.org published for reporting on Interaction Flow Modeling Language
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
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
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
