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SFM-12 MDE Summer School
Formal methods are emerging in computer science as a prominent approach to the rigorous design of computer, communication and software systems. The aim of the SFM (International School on Formal Methods) series is to offer a good spectrum of current research in foundations as well as applications of formal methods, which can be of interest
New book: Building Enterprise Systems with ODP
Building Enterprise Systems with ODP: An Introduction to Open Distributed Processing is a new book by Peter F. Linington, Zoran Milosevic, Akira Tanaka and Antonio Vallecillo that “sets out a systematic approach to the design of large complex distributed systems, such as enterprise systems, using the concepts and mechanisms defined by the Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing (ODP).
Our upcoming book: Model-Driven Software Engineering
I’m very happy to announce that we ( Marco Brambilla, myself and Manuel Wimmer) are working on a Model Driven Software Engineering book to be published next Spring (if everything goes according to the plan ) by Morgan&Claypool. Read the rest of the post to learn more about what is the book about and why we though
Modeling Style Guidelines by Scott W. Ambler
Scott W. Ambler (I don’t think I need to introduce him, do I?) has published online many of the modeling style guidelines that he presented in the book The Elements OF UML(TM) 2.0 Style Instead of providing yet another resource on UML focused on explaining the language and its notation, it presents modeling guidelines (from layout guidelines
More than 50.000 books on UML (in French) sold
Our colleague Pascal Roques announced that he has sold more than 50.000 copies of his UML books (in French). An impressive achievement that shows that whether UML works or not (see this discussion or all the other never-ending discussions we have had here) there is still a strong interest from practitioners. If you are also
15 wisdom pearls on Software Architecture from the AOSA book
I’ve just finished reading the book “The Architecture of Open Source Applications” (eds. Amy Brown and Greg Wilson ). In it, the authors of twenty-five open source applications explain how their software is structured, and why. What are each program’s major components? How do they interact? AND what did their builders learn during their development?
Interesting book project on DSL Enginering
Markus Voelter AND Eelco Visser have just announced their project TO WRITE a book ON DSL Engineering . The introduction IS already online AND probably MORE content will be posted online too.
Clearly, a book TO follow.
First dollar with the Amazon Affiliate program
WHEN I started this portal I joined two affiliate programs:
- Amazon associates FOR the UML books (AND OCL , modeling AND MDD books) I comment ON the portal
The Elements of UML 2.0 Style by Scott W Ambler
Thanks to Andrea Baruffaldi (creator of the UML Lovers LinkedIn group), a short review of this book has been now included in the UML books page
Top 100 best Software Engineering Books – Agile beats UML
Today, I looked over the list OF top 100 best software engineering books
I don’t want to start a discussion about the books I feel are missing or about the validity of the method used to select the best books (in fact, the first thing I would change is the title of the list, instead of “best books” I would say “most popular”, that seems more appropriate).
You can follow the previous link and join the discussion there.
I’m just surpris
