Hi Community,
I am happy to announce that this Thursday (the 24th of March), Robert Deckers will hold the discussion about “Domain-oriented Modeling with MuDForM, turning art into engineering”.
Also, remember that we changed the link to join the Meetup!
To enable the people involved in a software development process to communicate and reason close to their area of knowledge, we are developing a method to formalize and integrate knowledge of multiple domains into domain models and into specifications in terms of those domain models. A domain model captures knowledge about a domain and can be used as the underlying (meta)model of a DSL. People often perceive that domain modeling is an art, and requires years of experience. Modelers and domain experts gather around a whiteboard, and after some tome, magically a model appears. With MuDForM, Robert Deckers breaks with this perception. In the last seven years he has worked on MuDForM. MuDForM is a systematic approach in which knowledge stated in natural language is transformed in unambiguous models. It has an explicit metamodel and definition of method steps, and provides many guidelines for those steps. Furthermore, MuDForM addresses some major issues of current domain modeling approaches. During this presentation, Robert will present the method and some examples. (Next week’s presentation will be about the MPS-based tool that supports MuDForM and the specification of model-based tests.)
Robert Deckers is an external PhD candidate at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has been working on code generation, model interpreters and specification methods since 1991. He has developed and applied specification languages, modelling methods, and supporting tools. He has been active as an architect and consultant in architecture, domain modeling, and requirements at all organizational levels. Robert is author of the book "DYA|Software, architecture approach for mission critical applications’’. Robert teaches software architecture and domain modeling at universities and companies. In 2013, he has started his own company to devote himself to MDD, because "the world must understand that software development is about integrating knowledge and not about realizing technology’’. More info available at www.linkedin.com/in/robertdeckers/.
Registration for the Virtual Meetup
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. It will also permit you to add it to your calendar.
Time
It is hosted on Zoom at 6 PM GMT+1/CEST (you can use this link to figure out which time is in your timezone: Dateful Time Zone Converter).
Event hint
I am also happy to extend the invitation to the Thematic Workshop on Systems Engineering, Wednesday 11th May at King’s College Londonorganised by MDENet, (https://community.mde-network.org/posts/21560727) at the 11th of May, at King’s College London.
This one-day event taking place on Wednesday 11th May as an in-person session at King’s College London aims to improve mutual understanding of research challenges and opportunities for MDE to help address problems in a particular thematic area. Our goal is that the workshop can spark collaborations between people in different areas. MDENet offers a range of funding opportunities to support the further development of such collaborations.
Cheers,
Elisa
P.S. We get a recurring question: “Are presentations recorded?”. The answer is not, and the reasons are explained here On recording Virtual Meetups - #7 by voelter
