News and Events
Once again DSV has a stake in the organisation of the International Workshop on Business/IT-Alignment and Interoperability (Busital).
The workshop is held in conjuction with the 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE’12) in Gdańsk, Poland, 25 – 29 June 2012.
Please consider publishing your research reports at Busital!
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Please do not add or update any content to any part of the WordPress system during the period. Please report any errors that occur after the maintenance to dmc@dsv.su.se.
I was planning to report some usage statistics from the blogs that I have some information on — dash.dsv.su.se and syslab.dsv.su.se — by the end of the month. But I might as well do it right now (I mean, why not?). The statistics are collected during May 2011 (i.e., the period 1/5 – 21/5).
For DASH
We don’t have a blog on syslab.dsv.su.se. The most popular page on the site is the Projects page. It was hit 79 times.
Many hits on DASH and SYSLAB come from crawlers (Google, Yahoo, Yandex, Baidu, etc.) and different kinds of bots. About 65% appears to be hits from non-bots. Geographically Europe and North America dominate but traffic is coming from everywhere, really.
The number of ‘page views per day’ for SYSLAB is not correct (it should be lower). This is because some people still have feed readers pointing to the old Ning site. Unfortunately calls from those readers are counted on this site as well. This skew will be fixed eventually.
So, if you wonder whether anyone reads what you publish on these pages then rest assured. It is very likely that someone does. Several, in fact.
‘Monty’ Widenius, founder of the world’s most widely used RDBMS — MySQL — visited SYSLAB today.
MySQL was recently aquired by Oracle Corporation with the consequence that the way by which its produced and marketed is rapidly changing.
Currently Monty heads a company called Monty Program that organises the development of MariaDB, a drop-in replacement for MySQL. The production of MariaDB follows the old MySQL tradition of agility, to be free and open source (yes, there is a difference!), and providing for the needs of users.
The half Monty
Discussions revolved around how MariaDB could be used in the courses given at SYSLAB and how closer collaborations could be established.
It was a very pleasurable and informative meeting.
The 5th International Workshop on Value Modeling and Business Ontologies (VMBO 2011) was arranged 7-8 February by the University of Ghent, Belgium. This excellent workshop drew about 30 participants where DSV was represented by myself (Birger), Paul Johannesson, and Maria Bergholtz.
More info about it can be found at the workshop’s official home page. More info about the VMBO series of workshops can be found by clicking through the links at this page.
The 6th International Workshop on Business/IT-Alignment and Interoperability is arranged in London the 20th of June, 2011.
Members of DSV staff are involved in various ways in the arrangements. Please consider contributing to the workshop by submitting your research reports.
The Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE’11, an important conference) is co-located with the workshop.
Additional info can be found at the workshop site. Info about CAiSE’11 can be found at http://www.caise2011.com/index.php
Syslab had once again the pleasure to welcome Hans Weigand and Jeewanie Jayasinghe Arachchige from Tilburg University for a short visit.
Hans, Jeewanie, Petia and about 2% of Paul at Chez Petia
The main purpose was to work on a particular kind of service which we tentatively call management service. A mangement service is a service that, in some sense, govern some other service. This work is well in line with previous work in the area of Service science that we have done together.
UPDATE: the work resulted in a paper that was accepted for presentation at the 23rd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE’11)
Paul and myself attended the 4th International Workshop on Value Modeling and Business Ontologies (VMBO 2009) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Very interesting and rewarding.
More info about it can be found at http://vmbo2009.blogs.dsv.su.se (yes, the web site is hosted by DSV).