.Open DesaiEtal05
 Nirmit Desai & Ashok  U Mallya & Amit K Chopra  & Munindar P Singh 
 Interaction protocols as design abstractions for business processes
 IEEE Trans Software Engineering  V31n12(Dec 2005)pp1015-1027
 =THEORY MODEL BUSINESS PROCESS COMMITMENTS SCENARIOS OWL-P AGENTS ROLES \pi-CALCULUS	
 Proposes a logic of commitments between agents.
 Uses sequence charts containing commitments to describe protocols.
 Implies that activity diagrams are a bad way to describe business processes.
Entangles different agents with each other.  So unstable.
 (dick)|- `take home message: don't use control flows to model work flow`. 
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.Open BontempsHeymansSchobbens05
 Yves Bontemps & Patrick Heymans & Pierre-Yves Schobbens 
 From Live Sequence Charts to State Machines and Back: A Guided Tour
 IEEE Trans Software Engineering  V31n12(Dec 2005)pp999-1014
 =THEORY REQUIREMENTS SCENARIOS SSDs MSC Message Sequence diagrams LSC Live sequence charts FSM/STD STATE CHARTS	
 Proves that most problems linking message sequence charts to state based models are intractable -- efficient automation may be impossible.
.See [Harel01]
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.Open SchmidtDC06
 Douglas C Schmidt 
 Model-Driven Engineering
 IEEE Computer Magazine  V39n2(Feb 2006)pp25-31
 =ADVERT =HISTORY CASE DOMAIN MODEL 
 MDE::="Model-Driven Engineering".
 DSML::="Domain-Specific Modeling Language",
 MIC::="Model-Integrated Computing
.See http://mic.omg.org
 Much hype little technical evaluation.
 sidebar: Model-Centric Software Development -- (MCSD)  
Notes "In our experience working with large-scale systems a prominent cause of inflated software development costs and extended time-to-market stems from serialized phasing, which makes it hard to evaluate design decisions[...]"
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.Open BalasubramianEtal06
 Krishnakuma Balasubramian & Aniruddh Gokhale & Gabor Karsai & Janos Sztipanovits & Sandeep Neema 
 Developing applications using model-driven design environments
 IEEE Computer Magazine  V39n2(Feb 2006)pp33-40
 =DEMO MDD not MDA GME PICML ECSL DOMAIN MODEL LANGUAGES DSML
 DSML::="Domain-Specific Modeling Language".
 MIC::="Model-Integrated Computing". 
 Models replace programming languages, and each application domain has customized modeling languages.
 GME:="Generic modeling environment", Vanderbilt University
.See http://www.isis.vanderbilt.edu/Projects/gme
 PICML::="Platform independent component modeling language".
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.Open Geer06
 David Geer 
 Will Software Developers Ride Ruby on Rails to success
 IEEE Computer Magazine  V39n2(Feb 2006)pp18-20
 =ESSAY Ruby Rails MVC WWW DATA platform
 Ruby::scripting_language.
 Rails::framework=`supports data base access and MVC GUIs`, Define controllers, views, ... Uses the DRY: Don't Repeat Yourself principle.
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.Open FranceEtal06
 Robert B France & Sudipto Ghosh & Trung Dinh-Trong & Arnor Solberg 
 Model-Driven Development Using UML 2.0: Promises and Pitfalls
 IEEE Computer Magazine  V39n2(Feb 2006)pp59-66
 =ESSAY MODELING MDD UML2.0 meta-models semantics
 MDD::="Model-Driven Development", the next level of abstraction above 3rd generation programming languages.
 Good survey of UML2.0
 Interaction modeling hard to extract from the metamodel
 Semantics still too loose -- variation points.
 Need metamodeling tools to enable MDD
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.Open Krill06
 Paul Krill 
 Agile programming has fallen short, conference told 
 Infoworld(13 Mar 2006)
.See http://ww6.infoworld.com/products/print_friendly.jsp?link=/article/06/03/13/76420_HNmcconnell_1.html
 =REPORT McConnell BEST & WORST IDEAS Agile RISKS REQUIREMENTS ITERATION INCREMENTAL EVOLUTION REUSE ONE SIZE
 Importance of people, evolution, risk, estimation, management,...
 One size does not fit all: different projects need different processes
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