It has been a while since I have written any news here. I will give a short summary of what has happened during the last months

 

ECMDA 2006

In july, I joined the European Conference on Model Driven Architecture - Foundations and Applications. I presented my paper "Business Process Modeling: Defining Domain Specific Languages using UML profiles". There were great respons at my approach and my tools, and I later talked to several people who were interested in trying out the tools at their domains.

 

Internal Danske Bank examination

I have carried out an empirical examination of the challenges of using a workflow management system seen from the perspective of the participants for developing the workflows. I have carried out several interviews and facilitated a workshop about the topic.

 

Writing

 

Much of my time have been used at writing. I have together with Behzad Bordbar, Birmingham University been writing a paper about pattern based transformation of business processes and have lately been writing a workshop version of the approach.

Further, I have started to plan the structure of my thesis.

Presentations 

I have held presentations for Danske Bank management and are preparing three presentations to be held in this autumn. Later this week I will go to IBM Zurich lab and give a presentation about my ideas; A domain specific and pattern based approach to business process modeling and implementation. I will later in November give a presentation about the same topic in danish at a developer conference organized by the danish company "Teknologisk".

 

Prototype tools 

I have extended my prototype tools quite much. ADModeller/ADSpecialiser have been extended to support connection stereotypes and entering data at these when modeling. THe properties view has been extended to use a tabbedpropertyview. The stereotype attributes for the selected task is shown in the properties view. Further additional changes have been made.

I have created a transformation engine ADTransformer, which now supports transforming from one language to another using the concepts of sub transformations, pattern templates, transformations rules and additional transformation parameters. Another tool, ADTransformationGenerator, is able, at the same way as ADSpecializer, to generate an eclipse plugin project containing a transformation specification from a source to a target langauge to be used by ADTransformer.

To be able to generate BPEL code, I have created ADCompiler, a tool to compile an activity diagram to BPEL.

The tools suite is now able to create domain specific langauges, create models using these languages, define transformations between different langauges, and transform models between these langauges to final generate executable BPEL code.