York Doctoral Symposium 2013

This week we had a local York Doctoral Symposium (YDS) which has been taking part in The University of York since 6 years ago. It was a very nice event in which several works in the form of full papers and extended abstracts in different areas of Computer Science and Electronics were presented, and despite the fact of being a local symposium it received several works not only from The University of York colleagues, but also from other UK Universities, even one paper from a German one !!

Regarding my interests (better said area of knowledge, because there were other very interesting topics) there were only a couple of papers related to Model-Driven Engineering: one of them presented by one colleague in the Enterprise Systems group, Athanasios Zolotas, related to DSLs for Web Application Development Processes; and a second one presented by me :), from which I must confess that I received an unexpected surprise at the end of the night...

Predictable Software Systems

This week I've been very entertained with a new module of the Engineering Doctorate I'm doing at the University of York. Prior to the module lessons, I had my first talk in a seminar meeting for some of the Enterprise Systems Research Group's colleagues. Although I think that there were no more 10 people in the room, I found it as an ideal opportunity to start to show some mates the stuff I'm working on, and more interestingly, to detect any interest and spark new possibilities of collaboration around the topic.

Week's brief summary

I'll like to start this new refreshed blog by talking about some of the work I've been doing this week. Although the last weekend I had basically finished the assessment whose deadline was the 24th of April, I really spent some last editorial changes trying not to pass the 1000 words limit that was supposed to be for the 3 different reviews we had to do. It's doesn't look easy when you don't really know the final tool that is going to be used for that purpose: the only clue I had is "every word" counts...