Modeling Languages

Checking Model Transformation Refinement

jordi — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:19:37 +0000

Next month, at the Int. Conf. on Model Transformation (ICMT), AtlanMod, in cooperation with ATOS Research and the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, will present research results regarding the use of bounded model finding to analyze refinement relationships between model transformations. As Fabian explains, our approach allows comparing rule-based transformation implementations (e.g., in ATL or QVT-R)

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Modeling in Software Engineering 2013 – Twitter-based summary

jordi — Mon, 20 May 2013 22:40:52 +0000

(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

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From Relational Databases to Models: Reverse engineering with ScheMoL

jordi — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:08:50 +0000

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

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Standardization of Data Interchange with MDE

jordi — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:26:07 +0000

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

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From spreadsheets to dataflow diagrams

jordi — Tue, 07 May 2013 04:59:27 +0000

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

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MoDELS 2013 – List of Tutorials and Workshops available

jordi — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:40:19 +0000

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

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UMLtoSQL, UMLtoSymfony/PHP and UMLtoDjango/Python are now open source

jordi — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:58:16 +0000

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

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More than 25 universities using our MDE book

jordi — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:40:16 +0000

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

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Movisa: A DSL tool for Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) in Industrial Automation

jordi — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 06:03:44 +0000

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

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