Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS

2010

2011

Complex model editing activities are frequently performed to realize various model evolution tasks (eg, model scalability, weaving aspects into models, and model refactoring). In order to automate and reuse patterns of model editing, an editing process can be regarded as an endogenous model transformation and specified as transformation rules. However, the use of traditional model transformation languages often presents a steep learning curve.

2009

Abstract. Model transformations provide a powerful capability to automate model refinements. However, the use of model transformation languages may present challenges to those who are unfamiliar with a specific transformation language. This paper presents an approach called model transformation by demonstration (MTBD), which allows an end-user to demonstrate the exact transformation desired by actually editing a source model and demonstrating the changes that evolve to a target model.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010

Science of Computer Programming, 2008

Proc. of the WiSME 2003 …, 2003

Computer Languages, Systems & Structures, 2016

Religion and Society, 2010

I address here the affinity between money and religion in social life. I have always thought of money as the religion of capitalism. Science began as a form of knowledge opposed to religious mysticism. If science may crudely be said to be the drive to know the world objectively and art is mainly a means of subjective self-expression, religion typically addresses both sides of the subject-object relationship by connecting what is inside each of us to the object world that we share with everyone. Religion binds us to an external force; it stabilizes our meaningful interactions with the world, providing an anchor for our volatility. It helps that money, as well as being a means of separating public and domestic life, was always the main bridge between them. Today it is the source of our vulnerability in society and a practical symbol allowing each of us to make an impersonal world meaningful. If money has separated economic spheres and fragmented human experience, it can join what it has divided. The American economist, Paul Samuelson, in his best-selling Economics textbook said that 10 million New Yorkers go to sleep every night confident that the economy will still be there the next morning; but how do they know? Searching for the source of money’s power is like asking how God gets us to believe in Him. Since what we can only ever know is the past, why would anyone accept a claim to guarantee an unknowable future? But we do, because we must; and faith is the glue sticking past and future together in the present. Money as credit and debt forces us to believe in a future we cannot know. That is why money is a form of religious life.