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
Daniel L. Moody from University of Twente gave a talk (and a full fledged tutorial) at OMG technical meeting in Reston, VA, on the principles for designing effective diagramming notations. His talk had this overall design:(click to enlarge)Daniel Moody wrote a famous paper on IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering titled:The “Physics” of Notations: Toward a … Continue reading Daniel Moody on "Designing diagramming notations that work": the physics of notations
API4KB is an initiative within OMG that aims at defining a standard programming interface for knowledge bases. API4KB has been presented at OMG ADTF and the activities on this are starting now. There is a API4KB RFP currently open and some resources are available on the API4KB wiki. LOI and voting list are open until … Continue reading A standard API for Knowledge Bases (API4KB)
In my life, I've always been craving for travels, visiting places, experiencing arts and seeing new things. I never appreciated those kinds of holidays where you just sit and do nothing, I liked doing trips and sightseeing, I liked coming back from holidays more tired than then I left. Still, we know life is always … Continue reading An unexpected journey, and not Bilbo’s one
The Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) is now one step closer to standardization by Object Management Group (OMG). On February 18 the revised version of the IFML specification has been submitted to OMG by a consortium lead by WebRatio and comprising also Fujitsu, Model Driven Solutions, Softeam, and Thales.The new submission has improved a lot … Continue reading IFML on its way towards OMG standardization
I think we are all familiar with the Function Point concept, used for evaluation of the size of a software application in terms of functional features. We are all well aware of the limits of this unit of measure, to the point that it is considered rather obsolete in the software engineering community: subjectivity is … Continue reading Automated Function Point (AFP) adopted as a standard by OMG
Today I attended the MDA forum 2012, organized by Soluta.net and held in Milan, Italy. The topic of this year has been: "BPM and MDA". WebRatio was sponsoring the event and also had a presentation during the day, given by Stefano Butti. Here is a short summary of the day, which has been extremely interesting … Continue reading 6th MDA and BPM forum 2012, Milan, Italy
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
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
Today at the BPMN 2011 workshop in Luzern, Bruce Silver gave an interesting talk on the status of BPMN 2.0, its adoption, and his proposal for improving its general usage.I really appreciated the talk because:it focused on the ambiguities of the BPMN notation, even in the so acclaimed 2.0 versionit highlighted how users tend to … Continue reading Bruce Silver’s keynote speech at BPMN 2011 workshop: interoperability and other issues in BPMN and UML
