open source Archive

Learn more about the past, present and future of Papyrus and the industry of software /systems modeling in general.

Some stats on what we have accomplished in these seven years online plus the five posts that got the most visits in one single day ever

We're trying to get funding to study how existing knowledge in political science, social science and economy can be adapted to improve open source software development (making the word "open" count for real, beyond the code itself). But to make this possible we need your feedback!

What makes an open source software successful (in terms of commits, contributors,...)? I have no idea but this post explains one thing that will NOT work

Today is the day that we address the R in Scrall. And this week’s blog is

Leon Starr introduces a new Executable UML action language named Scrall: Starr's concise relational action language.This post focuses on hopping relationships

This week we begin taking a look at Scrall action language examples. Today, we’re just going

Create random models to test your modeling tools. Make them as large as you need them to be. It uses uniform probability distributions to populate.

Leon Starr's tips on open source model driven software development, Executable UML and a better action language.

A simple tool to eliminate sensitive information from your models. One less excuse for industrial partners unwilling to share their models (but still asking us to do relevant research!)