My current area of research deals extensively with how models are related. When writing things down, I am constantly befuddled by the fact that there are two words referring to a situation where one thing …
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“Relation” vs “Relationship” in model management
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Models, views and diagrams: a pseudo-ontology
I’ve been struggling with the notions of what is a model, a model type, a view, a diagram etc, so I compiled a small “ontology” (using the term a bit arbitrarily). I tried to reference …
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On models and light bulbs
A nice little excerpt from Thomas Kühne‘s “What is a model?“: A Copy is not a Model If I build a car according to an original being precise in every minute detail, I have not …
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Example statechart editor with EuGENia
Here’s an example of what can be done with Emfatic and EuGENia. The following annotated Ecore metamodel can be used to create a nice Statechart graphical editor. Here’s the emfatic source: The diagram of the …
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Eclipse Modeling Day in Toronto, Nov18
I just read on Ian Skerrett’s blog that the Eclipse Foundation announced the organisation of Eclipse Modeling Days in New York City and Toronto. In Toronto, it will happen on Wednesday, November 18 in IBM’s …
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MMTF heavy model types made a bit lighter
Working towards my MSc thesis, I’m increasingly engaging with the Model Management Tool Framework (MMTF), an Eclipse-based tool framework for software model management, built by Rick Salay. At a glance, MMTF allows users to create …
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Optical Model Recognition?
In the course of my Empirical Methods course, I recently read “Let’s go to the whiteboard: how and why software developers use drawings“, a case study conducted by Microsoft Research on MS employees. Of course, …
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BPM, M2, DSL
I stumbled across this very interesting article named “BPM is not Software Engineering” by Keith Swenson, which I very much recommend for reading. It makes the point that while Business Process Management looks a lot …
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Blueprints
Neither Watt’s steam engine nor Whitney’s standardized parts really started the Industrial Revolution, although each has been awarded that claim, in the past. The real start was the awakening of scientific and technological thoughts during …
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micropresentation
I have just completed (the first draft of?) a 6 page presentation for a 5 minute talk that I will -hopefully- be giving in Friday during the model merging workgroup meeting. It -obviously- concerns my …
Michalis Famelis 