Within the Modelsward conference held at ESEO in Angers, France, the warm up session has been delegated to a panel on the state of modelling, where panelists Bran Selic, Mark Van Den Brand and myself discussed about their vision on modelling. Plenty of good points came up both from the panelists and the audience. The … Continue reading Bran Selic, Mark Van Den Brand and Marco Brambilla: Panel on State of Modeling.
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Software Engineering Lesson #1: NEVER assume domain knowledge
This is a lesson for me as a teacher more than for students. Although I hope I will be able to transfer it to students too. I have been issuing exam exercises for years now, spanning diverse topics and domains very remotely connected between each other, i.e., food, healthcare, transportation, banking, tourism, art, chemistry, and … Continue reading Software Engineering Lesson #1: NEVER assume domain knowledge
The business value of Mobile + Cloud + Internet of Things
Once again, this year I gave a presentation at SMAU Milano together with WebRatio (with Matteo Sassi as a co-speaker). The purpose this time was to show and inspire on how Mobile, Cloud and IoT are becoming concrete business opportunities. We tried to give a different interpretation to these technology trends: At first glance, the … Continue reading The business value of Mobile + Cloud + Internet of Things
The Cloud meets Model-Driven Engineering
Cloud computing is enormously promising in terms of providing scalable and elastic infrastructure for software applications, as well as innovative business opportunities. However, its complexity (both in terms of understanding and adoption) is often underestimated. That's why Model-Driven Engineering (MDE), whose focus is to elevate conceptual models to first class artefacts of the software development … Continue reading The Cloud meets Model-Driven Engineering
IFML: opensource editor and university program
A bunch of new things are happening related to the recent OMG standard IFML (Interaction Flow Modeling Language): 1. A new opensource editor for the standard has been released on GitHub, together with appropriate introductory instructions and welcome page, thanks to the collaboration of WebRatio, Politecnico di Milano and Ecole des Mines de Nantes within … Continue reading IFML: opensource editor and university program
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!)
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
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