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EMFtoCSP – Checking the quality of your UML and EMF (static) models
Creating (correct) models isn’t an easy task. Modeling isn’t easy, and as it happens with any difficult task, the difficulty increases the chances of making mistakes. Developing software following MDE-based approaches is especially sensitive to the presence of errors...
WordCloud of the contents of all ICSE’12 papers
Adrian Kuhn posted a "Wordcloud of all 1373011 words found in all 787 #icse2012 papers". I thought you would also be interested in it (in the end ICSE is the top software engineering conference for CS researchers so I guess it's important what papers there are talking...
Getting Benefit from OCL Rules with Nomos
Tricia Balfe explains us today how to get more out of our OCL rules with Nomos (another reason to learn OCL). Enjoy! Enter Tricia: OCL is great for modellers who want to ensure models are correct. But it’s also really valuable as a way to model more. Plenty of...
UML is now an ISO standard (and also OCL, KDM,…)
Antonio Vallecillo (one of the best information sources for this portal as you may have already noticed 🙂 ) alerts me of the publication of several OMG specifications as 2012 ISO/IEC Standards. In particular these OMG specifications are now ISO standards: ISO/IEC...
Modeling / UML for the blind – Your input appreciated
Dear readers, I got this email earlier today: "I am registered blind and use a Screen Reader (software) to translate computer output into speech and electronic Braille. The screen reader cannot interpret images. Hence, I can neither read or draw diagrams. I am going...
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...
Best example of multiple inheritance ever (thanks to Jean Bézivin)
I'm reproducing a picture that Jean posted in google plus to exemplify multiple inheritance. I don't like the mechanism of multiple inheritance (at the conceptual level is sometimes useful but too easy to get it wrong and at the implementation level is just a...
X3D-UML – Implementation of UML 3D with X3D
As a curiosity, I'm blogging today about X3D-UML, a thesis X3D-UML: User-Centred Design, Implementation and Evaluation of 3D UML Using X3D undertaken by Paul McIntosh involving the measurement of benefit in extending the Unified Modeling Language (UML) using the...
What do UML books talk about?
Vahid Garousi wrote an interesting classification and trend analysis of the UML books published between 1997 and 2009. The survey includes a word cloud of book titles (the words “UML”, “software”, “object-oriented”, and “systems” are very common in this context, so...
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...
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