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In his 1973 book “Allgemeine Modelltheorie” (General Model Theory) Herbert Stachowiak describes the fundamental properties that make a Model.  Unfortunately this is still not available in english language, so I thought why not try a (quite free-style) translation of the essential bits (see here for all):

It is pretty inconvenient to post images here, so…

Just released a set of Java classes to generate SQL / Python-Django domain models / PHP-Symfony domain models from UML class diagrams. Open Source License. 

Single source & multiple outputs: heavy use of generators

8 reasons why Model Driven Development is great

The Kindle edition of the book "Model Driven Software Engineering in Practice" by Marco Brambilla, Jordi Cabot and Manuel Wimmer is now available on Amazon. 

You can find it here:

http://www.amazon.com/Model-Driven-Software-Engineering-Practice-ebook/dp/B00A45A4LG/qid=1360227338

The Kindle edition is available at 10$.

On…

Lessons learnt from adopting MDE in a large organization (General Motors) describing the benefits and challenges they encountered.

Read more: 

http://modeling-languages.com/is-transitioning-to-mde-revolutionary-for-companies-adopting-it/

We are looking for two postdoc/research engineers to work with us on MDE topics. 

In a previous post, I illustrated the Collaborative Modeling mode provided with Obeo Designer6.



It allows several users to simultaneously edit a model and its diagrams. Thanks to the fine-grained locking mechanism, only the concerned model elements are locked, and automaticaly released…

Dear all,

We are happy to announce that the first edition of our "Model-driven Software Engineering In Practice" Book is now available.

See the book web page for all the information about the book (why we wrote it, table of contents, additional material,...): http://www.mdse-book.com

or subscribe to the book google groups for book-related discussions and announcements: …

Would you develop a satellite application the same way you develop a «classic» application ?

The MDWE workshop on Model Driven and Agile Web Engineering will be held tomorrow in Berlin.

We have also set up an instant community system that will let you interact and participate online to the event at:

http://ic.kspaces.net/#!event/mdwe2012

All papers are already available online on the community site!

You can signup and participate to the community! You will find a "follow" button for…

Follow this link to see a word cloud of the contents of all ICSE 2012 (Int. Conf. on Software Engineering, the top software engineering conference for researchers) published papers.

Can you guess whether the word Models has a prominent role?

New blog post on the Metalevel: 

Rethinking development design choices with MDE

http://pjmolina.com/metalevel/2012/05/rethinking-development-design-choices-with-mde/

Feel free to share your impressions.

You can read here: http://modeling-languages.com/a-coffee-with-juan-carlos-molina-integranova/ the interview I did to Juan Carlos Molina about Integranova, a Model Execution System with more than 20 years in the market

CG2012 Summary:

• Day 1. http://bit.ly/cg2012-sum-day1  
• Day 2. http://bit.ly/cg2012-sm-day2
• Day 3. http://bit.ly/cg2012-sum-day3  

A domain where MDE is widely used is System Engineering. In this domain, Thales has acquired a strong experience with the Arcadia approach.

Arcadia is a model-based architecture engineering approach which has been tooled up in Eclipse with Melody Advance, a generic workbench developped  by Thales Engineering & Process Management with the assistance of Obeo.

Based on EMF and GMF, Melody Advance allows other Thales entities to create their own modeling tools.…

A quick summary about the Language Workbenches Challenge 2012. http://pjmolina.com/metalevel/2012/04/summary-language-workbenches-challenge-2012/

Regards!

Pedro J.

Microsoft has recently released the Visual Studio Pattern Automation Toolkit (VSPAT), available for free download from http://vspat.codeplex.com.

This toolkit allows IT experts (all disciplines) to create custom simplified tooling for reapplying patterns and best practices in solution implementation (no matter what technology or domain), that passes on their expertise in implementing custom solutions consistently and rapidly.

IT…

For all the tool vendors in this network, if you have a tool that you regard as  a kind of "Executable UML tool", and it's not yet in my list of Executable UML tools: http://modeling-languages.com/list-of-executable-uml-tools/

feel free to leave a comment in the post to get your tool added to the list.

Executable models, as the name implies, are models that are complete and precise enough to be executed. One of the key benefits is that you can evaluate your model very early in the development life cycle. That allows you to ensure the model is generally correct and satisfies the requirements even before you have committed to a particular implementation platform.

One way to perform early validation is to automatically generate a prototype that non-technical stakeholders can play with…