Aspectual Templates in UML

UML Templates allow to capture models whose some of their constituents are parameters. This construct is general enough to be used in many ways, such as generic class representation, Design Pattern modeling, view or aspect-oriented modeling (AOM). In this paper, we concentrate on this last usage and the specific characteristics of so called ''Aspectual Templates". Such templates can be applied to enrich existing models as far as they conform to a required model. Template parameters are exploited here to specify some required model, so that they must be constrained to form a full model structure. After recall of UML templates and their metamodel, we present the specificities of their aspectual interpretation, existing works and identify the issues. Then we show how standard UML templates can be enhanced to capture aspectual ones. For this, a specialization of the UML template metamodel is detailed and OCL constraints are formulated due to this specific interpretation and its proper mechanisms. As a result, this metamodel specialization is fully compatible with the existing one so that aspectual templates are full UML standard ones. Finally, we present an algorithm which constructs the result of the application of an Aspectual Template to a model. This algorithm also works for aspectual template to template application. Presented results were implemented and made available in the EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework) technology

Thierry Hentsch, L'Orient imaginaire : la vision politique occidentale de l'Est méditerranéen, Paris, Les Editions de Minuit, 1988, 290 p.

L'auteur aborde un thème devenu à la mode. La thèse du livre semble être que la pensée politique européenne a été élaborée par réaction à l'Orient musulman. Une démonstration précise et érudite serait nécessaire, car la thèse inverse a été solidement démontrée

Said Amir Arjomand, Authority and political culture in Shi'ism, Albany (New York), State University of New York Press, 1988, 393 p.

Voici un livre collectif utile. S .A. Arjomand a réussi à unifier remarquablement la période d'avant l'Occultation jusqu'à l'étonnante période khomeiniste. Ce livre a le mérite de bien montrer le caractère non chiite traditionnel du khomeinisme. Signalons une très opportune deuxième partie qui fournit la présentation et la traduction de textes topiques sur le pouvoir politique en pensée chiite imâmite

Note sur la séparation du religieux et du pouvoir dans la pensée politique musulmane

As it seems to be well admitted nowadays, Muslim political thought's main tradition, shiite as well as sunnite, separates clearly, for the times following Prophetic time, between religion and politics, in opposition to extremist traditions from the beginnings of Islam onward. Nevertheless the present leading thought in the international Muslim establishment is rather leaning to them. And radical Islamic groups follow the most extreme conceptions on religion’s and political power’s fusion, and also on holy war against renegade present rulers. A huge dangerous task for intellectual resistance and true Islamic renaissance in line with the main tradition is at work, giving hope for a «Post-Islamic Self Assertion »

Said Amir Arjomand, Authority and political culture in Shi'ism, Albany (New York), State University of New York Press, 1988, 393 p.

Voici un livre collectif utile. S .A. Arjomand a réussi à unifier remarquablement la période d'avant l'Occultation jusqu'à l'étonnante période khomeiniste. Ce livre a le mérite de bien montrer le caractère non chiite traditionnel du khomeinisme. Signalons une très opportune deuxième partie qui fournit la présentation et la traduction de textes topiques sur le pouvoir politique en pensée chiite imâmite

Template Based MDE

National audienceIn MDE, design of systems can be improved and accelerated thanks to reusable models which are made available in model repositories or libraries. This paper focuses on the construction and exploitation of " o↵-the-shelf " model template bases. Model templates are parameterized models which are adaptable to various application contexts. Due to their parameterization, model templates have their own modeling space. In this paper, we present the main construction and composition operations that underlie this space while presenting its dedicated engineering processes and actors. A software environment is shown to illustrate template based engineering in Eclipse

Conception de systèmes par applications de modèles paramétrés

National audienceNous présentons nos travaux sur les composants de modèle et leur opérateur associé "apply" qui permet la conception de systèmes par assemblage de composants de modèles (rangés dans des bibliothèques). Nous illustrons ces travaux à l'aide d'un outil démonstrateur "CocoaModeler". Cet atelier UML 2 étendu aux composants de modèles supporte des chaînes de production flexibles selon différentes stratégies de ciblage et différentes plates-formes technologiques

Technical aspects of an impact acceleration traumatic brain injury rat model with potential suitability for both microdialysis and PtiO2 monitoring

This report describes technical adaptations of a traumatic brain injury (TBI) model-largely inspired by Marmarou-in order to monitor microdialysis data and PtiO2 (brain tissue oxygen) before, during and after injury. We particularly focalize on our model requirements which allows us to re-create some drastic pathological characteristics experienced by severely head-injured patients: impact on a closed skull, no ventilation immediately after impact, presence of diffuse axonal injuries and secondary brain insults from systemic origin...We notably give priority to minimize anaesthesia duration in order to tend to banish any neuroprotection. Our new model will henceforth allow a better understanding of neurochemical and biochemical alterations resulting from traumatic brain injury, using microdialysis and PtiO2 techniques already monitored in our Intensive Care Unit. Studies on efficiency and therapeutic window of neuroprotective pharmacological molecules are now conceivable to ameliorate severe head-injury treatment

L’acteur et la dramaturgie

Après avoir invité des dramaturges, puis confronté le metteur en scène à son dramaturge,  le laboratoire jr. « Agôn – Dramaturgies des Arts de la scène » avait décidé d’attaquer la question de la dramaturgie du point de vue de l’acteur en organisant une rencontre avec Olivier Balazuc et Philippe Morier-Genoud. Il s’agissait lors de cette rencontre d’interroger les rapports de l’acteur à la dramaturgie parce que précisément il ne va pas de soi de faire de l’acteur un penseur de la dramaturgi..

High-resolution marine data and transient simulations support orbital forcing of ENSO amplitude since the mid-Holocene

Lack of constraint on spatial and long-term temporal variability of the El Niño southern Oscillation (ENSO) and its sensitivity to external forcing limit our ability to evaluate climate models and ENSO future projections. Current knowledge of Holocene ENSO variability derived from paleoclimate reconstructions does not separate the role of insolation forcing from internal climate variability. Using an updated synthesis of coral and bivalve monthly resolved records, we build composite records of seasonality and interannual variability in four regions of the tropical Pacific: Eastern Pacific (EP), Central Pacific (CP), Western Pacific (WP) and South West Pacific (SWP). An analysis of the uncertainties due to the sampling of chaotic multidecadal to centennial variability by short records allows for an objective comparison with transient simulations (mid-Holocene to present) performed using four different Earth System models. Sea surface temperature and pseudo-δ18O are used in model-data comparisons to assess the potential influence of hydroclimate change on records. We confirm the significance of the Holocene ENSO minimum (HEM) 3-6ka compared to low frequency unforced modulation of ENSO, with a reduction of ENSO variance of ∼50 % in EP and ∼80 % in CP. The approach suggests that the increasing trend of ENSO since 6ka can be attributed to insolation, while models underestimate ENSO sensitivity to orbital forcing by a factor of 4.7 compared to data, even when accounting for the large multidecadal variability. Precession-induced change in seasonal temperature range is positively linked to ENSO variance in EP and to a lesser extent in other regions, in both models and observations. Our regional approach yields insights into the past spatial expression of ENSO across the tropical Pacific. In the SWP, today under the influence of the South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ), interannual variability was increased by ∼200 % during the HEM, indicating that SPCZ variability is independent from ENSO on millennial time scales