TOOLS Europe 2011

Attended Tools Conferences last week, here my brief take-away (from an Analyst's point of view):

ICMT 2011:
Such a more technically influenced subject like M2M Tranformations can contain lots of inspiring single issues, even for an analyst doing more sort of World 2 Model Transformations. Issues like generalisation of generalisation, query/ modeling by example, ...

TOOLS 2011:
1. Is Subjectivity an approach to clarifying "Appliance" of Models?
http://www.slideshare.net/jressia/subjectopia-tools2011

2. What's the lesson from the "Cumbia" approach to handling dependencies between different views on models?
http://toolseurope2011.lcc.uma.es/index_accepted.html#abstractpaper10

SC 2011:
Learned that Composition contains many interesting aspects in Abstraction, like how beneficial is Nonmonotonic Logic to decomposition of systems?  Is composition related to "Emergence"? like in: http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/

=> lots of (to me) intriguing questions that deserve closer observation.

Link: http://toolseurope2011.lcc.uma.es/