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
On Friday, January 22, 2016 I attended a very interesting symposium organised by Harvard University Institute for Computational Science on "BRAIN + MACHINES: EXPLORING THE FRONTIERS OF NEUROSCIENCE AND COMPUTER SCIENCE". Although it fell outside my main research fields, I found it very interesting and enlightening. And the discussed topics could also imply some crucial … Continue reading "What’s special about us?" Harvard computational science symposium on Brain+Computer systems
This year I'm involved in the program committee of the Foundations track of ECMFA. ECMFA 2016 is the 12th European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications and is co-located with STAF 2016, on 4-8 July, 2016, in Vienna, Austria. Here are some core excerpts from the call for papers, which could be of interest for software … Continue reading ECMFA: 12th European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications
With Aldo Bongio (WebRatio), Jordi Cabot (ICREA and UOC), Hamza Ed-douibi (EMN) and Eric Umuhoza (Politenico di Milano), we worked on a research on Automatic Code Generation for Cross-platform, Multi-Device Mobile Apps. We presented our study at the MobileDeLi workshop, where we reported on a comparative study conducted to identify the best trade-offs between different … Continue reading Automatic Code Generation for Cross-platform, Multi-Device Mobile Apps. An Industrial Experience
I wish to extend this invitation for an open position I received, with request of reposting and dissemination. The AtlanMod research team (Inria, Mines Nantes, LINA) in Nantes (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/atlanmod) is hiring a full professor on an Inria chair to take the lead of the team and create a new Inria project-team in the future. At … Continue reading Open position for Full Professor at Ecole des Mines de Nantes, AtlanMod group
Today I gave my presentation of our Empirical Study on Simplification of Business Process Modeling Languages at the Conference of Software Language Engineering, in Pittsburg, PA (co-located with Splash 2015). You can find the full presentation here below, and some more details in this post by Eric Umuhoza on Jordi Cabot's blog. [slideshare id=54391109&doc=bpmn-simplification-to-ppm-fluxedo-sle2015-splash2015-pittsburg-151026160126-lva1-app6892] BPMN modeling simplification … Continue reading An Empirical Study on Simplification of Business Process Modeling Languages
