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Modeling in Software Engineering 2013 – Twitter-based summary
(This year I missed the Workshop on Modeling in Software Engineering @ ICSE 2013 but thanks to the great work of some tweeters (championed as usual by Richard) I was able to follow the key ideas and discussions that took place there. If you missed the tweets, you can still read them in my (slightly
From Relational Databases to Models: Reverse engineering with ScheMoL
Javier Cánovas talks today about ScheMoL, his approach (co-authored with Oscar Díaz, Gorka Puente and Jesús García Molina ) for the reverse engineering of relational databases. Note that, ulike other approaches, the goal is not to get a model representing the database schema but to transform the database data into a model (conforming to a
Standardization of Data Interchange with MDE
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
From spreadsheets to dataflow diagrams
Via It will never work in practice, I discover the work (and of Felienne Hermans, Martin Pinzger and Arie van Deursen on “Supporting Professional Spreadsheet Users by Generating Leveled Dataflow Diagrams” (to avoid the paywall, download this free technical report). As they say in the paper abstract: “In this paper, we first study the problems
MoDELS 2013 – List of Tutorials and Workshops available
You can already check the list of accepted workshops and tutorials for the MoDELS 2013 conference (in Miami next October). Among the workshops, I’d strongly recommend you to take a closer look at the “OCL, Model Constraint and Query Languages” workshop, for sure the most important venue to discuss with experts on OCL and textual
UMLtoSQL, UMLtoSymfony/PHP and UMLtoDjango/Python are now open source
Long-time readers know that some time ago the portal included a set of online code generation services: UMLtoSQL: automatically generated a SQL DDL script to create the database corresponding to the input UML class diagram UMLtoPHP: automatically generated full-fledged PHP applications from UML class diagrams. The service generated Doctrine models that thanks to the PHP/Symfony
More than 25 universities using our MDE book
You don’t write a technical book to make money so the best satisfaction for an author is to see his book being read. This is the reason why I’m very happy to announce that our model-driven introductory book is now being used to teach MDE in more than 25 universities all around the world (sure
Movisa: A DSL tool for Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) in Industrial Automation
Guest post by Stefan Hennig on model based user interface development in the Industrial Automation domain. Enjoy! The operative states of industrial automation facilities are monitored and operated by qualified personnel using pertinent Human Machine Interfaces (HMI). These software systems map the technical process and the automation devices, respectively, to graphical symbols and thus, they provide
Modelling allergy – a common hypersensitivity disorder
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
User interface modeling with the new IFML standard
UML is good to model many things but clearly misses the point when it comes to design complex user interfaces and interactions. Attempts to use UML for this usually end up with complex profiles that are almost impossible to apply. Therefore, I was happy to see that the OMG launched a RFP for an Interaction Flow Modeling
