All seven teams responded to Smokey Ladder's brief. The challenge was to see how well the team's chosen modeling approach lends itself to expressing the complex problem situation of GC-FEDS. Each team prepared a model prior to the event and had the opportunity to give Smokey Ladder a 3-minute pitch. The i*, URN, Flow, Plain Old Text, UML, Rich Pictures and Formal Methods contestants commenced battle, as highlighted through their prepared pitch slides, flip chart models and photos below.
Headed up by the founder of the i* approach, Eric Yu, this trio from Canada and Spain (also including Xavier Franch and Jennifer Horkoff) dazzled the audience with their beautifully crafted i* models. These were certainly a work of art!
Promising to juice up your modeling with URN, the Canadian founders and champions of this modeling approach (Daniel Amyot and Gunter Mussbacher) really got the audience salivating for more citrus fruit. (Note that their flipchart model also includes material from round 2.)
Clad in custom-made tee-shirts for the event, this professor/student trio from Germany (Kurt Schneider, Kai Stapel and Sebastian Meyer) encouraged the audience to enjoy the FLOW experience with them. There was no denying that they were in the flow!
Pairing Swiss precision with American pragmatism, Martin Glinz and Joy Beatty stood up for Plain Old Text. Right from the start, everyone knew that this would be the pair to beat ... with so much hyped security surrounding their model, they were definitely there to win!
Showing no fear for the seniority of their competition, this pairing of courageous PhD students from Germany and the US (Patrick Mader and Carlos Castro-Herrera) not only wooed Smokey Ladder with their expert knowledge of the UML, but with their abundant credentials. Rumor has it that Olly and Jane set these guys up... and that Paula had a momentary lapse of concentration when reading the clapometer.
As David Callele stormed the stage in his Canadian super-hero cape, followed by the effervescent German Birgit Penzenstadler carrying a bag full of toys, pipe-cleaners and props, the noise level of the audience increased exponentially. Promising to cheat, heckle and bribe ... who could stop them? (Note that their slides are an animation and their interactive flipchart was continuously changing, so could not be reflected here.)
As the lone and very serious Alistair Mavin took the center stage, the verdict is still out as to what exactly happened here! After stealing David Callele's cape and then stealing the audience's hearts and minds with his dead-pan British humor, rumors spread that Alistair respectfully declined the contract and recommended that Smokey Ladder come back and solicit the services of formal methods for some of the more safety-critical aspects of the system later on in the process. We let the photos speak for themselves.
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