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I envy the strong industrial involvement in the web research community
According to a tweet by Matthias Heinrich , the WWW’2012 conference (in short, the most important research conference on web topics) had a very strong presence of industrial players: “Out of 108 papers, Yahoo contributed to 22 and MS to 13 papers.” and more than 40 people from Google attended . Compared to these numbers,
A coffee with Juan Carlos Molina – Integranova
Juan Carlos Molina leads the research and development activities at Care Technologies , the sister company of IntegraNova . These two companies take care of the development and commercialization of the Integranova Model Execution System (MES) . They have been around for twenty years now (I guess they are one of the first companies pushing
MDE wins, eventually
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Some months ago Bruno Oliveira posted a very popular chart in Google+ comparing the way geeks and non-geeks approached the execution of repetitive tasks. Obviously, I agree with his view but I also believe that the same kind of
Interview to yours truly (in French)
Since, supposedly, I’m an “acteur innovant” in my region, Atlanpole (Nantes Atlantique European Business & Innovation Center, Regional Incubator for the Pays de la Loire) interviewed me to know more about my background and research lines. You can read the interview here If you enjoyed this post you can subscribe to this Software Modeling blog
Object Constraint Language (OCL): A definitive guide
As part of my participation in the 12th Int. School on Formal Methods: Model-Driven Engineering (SFM´12) I´ve co-authored a book chapter (together with Martin Gogolla) introducing the Object Constraint Language (you may want to read why you need to learn OCL first). The abstract of the chapter is the following: The Object Constraint Language (OCL)
A better understanding of Drupal module interactions thanks to UML
You already know that I dropped Drupal to move to WordPress but this doesn’t mean I’m very happy to report on people talking about the benefits (or disadvantatges) of using UML and MDE/modeling in general in their professional life. In this case, Lin Clark explains how she thinks UML sequence diagrams are helping her work
Most Important Soft Dev Trends for 2012 (MDE not even a voting option, really?)
As reported in InfoQ attendees of the QCon London conference have been voting for the most important software development trends for 2012 (votation is now open to everyone). We can discuss the role (or even better, the impact) of MDE in software development but you can’t deny its existence and its influence in a (growing)
Why did I fail with the online code-generation services – Advise(III): Test your market exists
(cross-posted from the “Stories of a (failed) entrepreneur” blog) This is the third in a series of posts trying to explain what I think went wrong with my attempt of selling online code-generation services, that I end up shutting down due to the lack of clients. In previous posts, I recommended to Choose a cool
Two surveys on modeling are waiting for your input
MDE researchers kindly request your help: “In the course of the project MOLIZ, a research project together with the Vienna University of Technology, we kindly invite you to participate in an online survey about the usage of models in practice and requirements for model execution. The questionnaire is targeted at people who work with models
101companies: One system – more than 100 alternative software implementations
Ralf Lämmel’s visit is the perfect excuse to blog about his great project: 101 companies, created together with Thomas Schmorleiz and Andrei Varanovich. The idea behind 101 companies is simple, let’s try to have as many implementations as possible for the same scenario, a simple Human Resource Management System (the so-called 101companies System) so that
