Cognification is the application of knowledge to boost the performance and impact of a process. We believe cognification could be a revolution in the way software is built.

1. Cognifying model-driven
engineering
Jordi Cabot, Robert Clarisó, Marco Brambilla, Sébastien Gerard
@softmodeling – modeling-languages.com July 2017

2. Cognification:
The application of knowledge
to boost the performance
and impact of a process

3. During the industrial
revolution, every machine got
an electrified version
The next revolution is the
cognification of everything via
cheap access to specialized
AIs

4. Best chess
player in the
world is a
centaur (team
of human +
machine
playing
together)

6. Cognification
ML
Crowdsourcing
Ontologies
Big Data
…

7. Cognifying MDE: 5 examples
Modeling bot as virtual assistant
Model inferencer to discover schema of unstructured data
A code generator that mimicks a company programming
style
A real-time model reviewer
A morphing rule modeling tool that adapts to the user
profile (language, input format…)

8. Cognifying MDE: endless possibilities

9. …one little problemCognification
ML
Crowdsourcing
Ontologies
Big Data
…
Big Data for models /
modeling artefacts is not
yet a reality

11. Let’s work
together
jordi.cabot@
icrea.cat
@softmodeling
modeling-
languages.com