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Standardization of Data Interchange with MDE

jordi — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:26:07 +0000

Fabian Büttner talks about his work on “Model-driven Standardization of Public Authority Data Interchange” (to appear in the Science of Computer Programming journal, there is a (free) link to the full paper at the end). Enter Fabian. Standardization is often hard, and standardizing web service interfaces is no exception. In an e-government context of de-centralized

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Modelling allergy – a common hypersensitivity disorder

jordi — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:28:38 +0000

Spring is here and with it many seasonal allergies. Today, however, I´d like to mention a yearlong one, the modelling allergy a clear case of hypersensitivity disorder that provokes a strong allergic reaction when the person is faced with software models (and related model-driven artefacts). There’s no clear treatment for this allergy. As specific anti-histamines

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Model-driven learning design

jordi — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:32:28 +0000

In a collaboration with Juan Manuel Dodero and his colleagues from the University of Cadiz, we have explored the application of MDE to a new (for me) scenario: the generation of learning environments from a learning design model conforming to a learning design DSL. It’s an easy joke but let me say that I learnt

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Worried about your RSS subscription? – Follow the modeling news by email

jordi — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:53:26 +0000

Copyblogger makes a really good point in his post “A Real Simple Solution to the Death of Google Reader“, if you feel abandoned by Google and wonder what to do to keep all your RSS feeds (including our own one, at least until Google decides to kill feedburner as well), there’s an easy solution get

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Structured Flowcharts outperform pseudocode

jordi — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:16:01 +0000

Greg pointed me to this old (1989) IEEE Software article: Structured flowcharts outperform pseudocode: an experimental comparison by David A. Scanlan. In the paper the author empirically shows that significantly less time is required to comprehend algorithms represented as flowcharts. He ended up saying “I am not suggesting that we should all retrieve our flowchart

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Automatic grading of UML models

jordi — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 01:58:58 +0000

Dear lazyweb, I was wondering if any of you knows/uses any tool to automatically grade (UML) models created by students. I’m fully aware this far from easy (which probably explains why I don’t know of any such tool that is widely used, at least not among the people I know that teaches MDE). Clearly, a

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Introduction to Domain-Specific Languages (DSL tutorial slides)

jordi — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:20:58 +0000

Javier Cánovas, a postdoctoral fellow in AtlanMod, recently gave on tutorial on DSLs (Domain-specific Languages). I think the set of slides he prepared are really good and could be interesting for many of the readers of the portal. So, if you want to know what a DSL is, how to build them, … take a

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It’s time to teach history of programming languages

jordi — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 07:29:21 +0000

One of the first concepts I show when teaching Model-driven engineering is the MDE equation (Models + Transformations = Software ) which obviously revisits the well-known Niklaus Wirth‘s equation: Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs. I thought that by linking the two, it would be easier for the students to grasp the main aspects of

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Top 10 lies about MDE

jordi — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:54:55 +0000

Richard Paige and Louis Rose just published in the JOT journal the article/post Lies, Damned Lies and UML2Java where they summarize the 10 most dangerous misconceptions about model-driven engineering. For those with no time, this is the list headlines (you´ll need to go to the journal page to read the full details, no paywall!): MDE

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Is transitioning to MDE revolutionary (for companies adopting it)?

jordi — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:29:37 +0000

After reading the paper “Transition to Model-Driven Engineering – What Is Revolutionary, What Remains the Same?” by Jorge Aranda, Daniela Damian and Arber Borici I immediately contacted the authors and asked them to summarize the main lessons learnt from their work in a guest post. I have no doubt you’ll for sure enjoy it. Enter

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