| 07-Feb-2014 | "The Architecture of SAP ERP: Understand how successful software works" (English) published by tredition. See books or buy at Amazon. |
| 09-Jul-2012 | "Modellgestützter Wissenstransfer in der Fahrwerksentwicklung" (German) published by GfI. See papers. |
| 09-Jul-2012 | "Introducing Architecture Modeling at a big software product company" published by GfI. See papers. |
| 09-Jul-2012 | The Gesellschaft für Informatik (GfI) has released the papers of the Modelling 2012 conference (14.-16. März 2012, Bamberg). See publications and papers. |
| 11-Jun-2012 | A new version of TAM stencils is available for download! |
| 01-Jan-2012 | A new version of FMC stencils is available for download! |
| 10-Nov-2011 | A new version of TAM stencils is available for download! |
| 19-Sep-2011 | Fundamental Modeling Concepts group opened at Xing.com — feel free to join. |
| 06-Dec-2009 | New stencils for OminGraffle where linked in the FMC Stencils section. |
| 09-Aug-2009 | The SAP AG Response to the Future Development of UML RFI: FMC block diagrams are proposed as a UML meta-model extension to the OMG. See publications section. |
| 30-Mar-2009 |
The SAP AG presents TAM — Technical Architecture Modeling. See TAM - The SAP way combining FMC and UML. |
| 14-Feb-2007 | The Apache Modeling Project Documentation has had some minor updates. The FMC-Stencils have been updated, as well. The newest version may be downloaded via the link to sourceforge.net. |
| 24-Jul-2007 | The FMC website has undergone a complete redisign. |
| 23-May-2007 | The FMC website is now hosted by INTERVISTA AG under its new domain fmc-modeling.org. |
| 19-Oct-2006 | The FMC website was down due to a server crash. Unfortunately, only an older backup could be restored. This also applies to the forum which is heavily spammed at the moment. |
| 26-Feb-2006 | The book 'Fundamental Modeling Concepts' has been published by Wiley (Publisher's Website). |
| 24-Aug-2005 |
The book 'Softwaresysteme und ihre Modellierung - Grundlagen, Methoden und Techniken' from Peter Tabeling may now be ordered. This textbook about software systems modeling primarily addresses students in Software Engineering. For more information visit the publisher's website. Additionally, we are proud to annouce the FMC book which is planned to be released in January 2006. |
| 15-Jul-2005 | The book 'Nichtphysikalische Grundlagen der Informationstechnik' from Siegfried Wendt (originally published in 1991) is now online. For details click here. |
| 08-Mar-2005 |
The new FMC-Website is now online. It comes in a slightly changed design and a reordered navigation. Please feel free to contact us. Current work: FMC Reading Tutorial, FMC Stencils with a Project Manager, and some FMC Introduction presentations. |
| 14-Jan-2005 |
Version 2.1 of the FMC stencils for Visio 2000 and newer is available. Major change is the new Petri net simulator. It can simulate Petri nets consisting of places with different capacities and arcs with different arc weights as well as FMC specific recursion Petri nets. Current work: FMC Reading Tutorial, FMC Stencils with a Project Manager, and some FMC Introduction presentations. |
| 02-Aug-2004 |
The FMC and UML presentation is available. It contains a comparision of FMC and UML and how they fit together. The presentation is available in different file formats. Current work: FMC Reading Tutorial, FMC Stencils with Petri net simulator, and some FMC Introduction presentations. |
| 10-May-2004 |
A new release 2.0.1 of the FMC stencils for Visio 2000 and newer is available. This version fixes some serious bugs encountered on some installations: problems with deletion of shapes, automatic layout not working at all, recognized anti-patterns not being colored appropriately and even startup problems. Current work: FMC and UML presentation, FMC Reading Tutorial, new FMC Stencils with a Petri net simulator, and some FMC presentations. |
| 20-Apr-2004 |
Version 2.0 of the FMC stencils for Visio 2000 and newer is released. It features a more powerful Consistency Checker recognizing common Anti-Patterns. Take a look. Current work: FMC and UML presentation, FMC Reading Tutorial, new FMC Stencils with a Petri net simulator, and some FMC presentations. |
| 08-Mar-2004 |
The FMC-Visualization Guidelines are now online. Most of the layout issues described in that document are also valid for diagrams in general. The FMC-Visualization Guidelines document is available in .html and .pdf format. Current work: FMC Visio Stencils v2.0 with Anti-Pattern detection etc., FMC Reading Tutorial, FMC and UML and FMC presentations. |
| 30-Jan-2004 | The Initiative KommSE has released a collection of Position Statements (PDF, German only) written by managers of german companies about the relevance of efficient communication in the development and maintenance of complex systems. |
| 22-Jan-2004 |
New terms were introduced to the Glossary. The Notation Reference was reworked in order to be slimmer as the precedent version. It is also available in different file formats. A bugfix release for the FMC Visio Stencils was released. The new FMC Visio Stencils version 1.8.1 fixes some consistency checker problems. Current work: FMC Visio Stencils v2.0 with the ability to recognize common Anti-Patterns, Visualization Guidelines, FMC presentations for a quick overview and the Reading Tutorial. |
| 26-Nov-2003 |
Version 1.8 of the FMC stencils for Visio 2000 and newer is available. This version fixes a lot of Visio 2002 and 2003 specific bugs. It now contains fill and text styles to enhance usability. Administrative privilleges are not longer required in order to use the FMC Support Tools. Current work: new entries in glossary, explained example FMC diagrams and Reading Tutorial, Visualization Guidelines and a splitted Notation Reference. |
| 14-Oct-2003 |
New publications form Bernhard Gröne et al are added to the publication list. Current work: new file formats for the Notation Reference, Reading Tutorial, Visualization Guidelines (former Layout Guidelines) and FMC Visio Stencils. |
| 04-Sep-2003 |
The description concerning the FMC Metamodel is now overhauled. The new example and the description in PDF file format can be found here. Current work: new file formats for the Notation Reference, Reading Tutorial and Layout Guidelines. |
| 12-Aug-2003 |
New navigation point for the FMC Notation Reference is added. You can find the FMC Notation Reference here. It is more detailed than the Reference Sheets and intended to be an appendix for documents. Current work: overhauled example for the FMC-Metamodel, new file formats for the Notation Reference, Reading Tutorial and Layout Guidelines. |
| 14-Jul-2003 |
Version 1.7 of FMC stencils for Visio 2000 are available. New main features are support for automatic layout for horizontal and vertical connectors and a correctness checker, checking the bipartiteness of a drawing. Current work: overhauled example for the FMC-Metamodel, FMC Reference Sheets as ready to include appendix, Reading Tutorial and Layout Guidelines. |
| 02-Jul-2003 |
New publications from Peter Tabeling et al and Frank Keller et al added to publication list. Current work: new version of FMC-Visio Stencils, FMC Reference Sheets as ready to include appendix, Reading Tutorial and Layout Guidelines. |
| 18-Jun-2003 |
Navigation entry Software Development by PLAN S GmbH added. Current work: new version of FMC-Visio Stencils, FMC Reference Sheets as ready to include appendix in several file-formats, Reading Tutorial and Layout Guidelines. |
| 20-May-2003 |
Our mail-system now works again and the monthly newsletter could be sent. Current work: new version of FMC-Visio Stencils, FMC Reference Sheets as ready to include appendix in several file-formats, Reading Tutorial and Layout Guidelines. |
| 22-Apr-2003 |
The FMC - Activity History is online. The main stations of FMC since its beginnings 29 years ago are listed there. NOTICE: our mail-system still does not work properly so no newsletter will be send. Current work: Reading Tutorial, Layout Guidelines, FMC Reference Sheets as ready to include appendix. |
| 24-Mar-2003 |
The FMC-Glossary is now complete. Help for the FMC-Visio Stencils is also online now. NOTICE: due to problems with our mail-system no newsletter for March could be send. Current work: Activity History, Reading Tutorial, Layout Guidelines. |
| 14-Mar-2003 |
The Reference Sheets are now complete. A new version of the FMC Stencils including online help for Block diagrams is available for download. Current work: rest of Glossary, Activity History, Reading Tutorial. |
| 06-Mar-2003 |
A better description of the FMC Metamodel with an example is now online. Current work: rest of Glossary, rest of Reference Sheets, Activity History, Reading Tutorial, Help for Stencils. |
| 24-Feb-2003 |
Reference Sheet for ER-diagrams (Entity/Relationship-diagrams) added to Reference Sheets. Parts of the FMC Glossary are now available online and bundeled as zip-archive. Current Work: rest of Glossary, pdf Version of Glossary, rest of Reference Sheets, better description of the Metamodel. |
| 24-Jan-2003 |
Reference Sheets for Block diagrams and part one of Petri net are online. Current Work: Glossary, rest of Reference Sheets. |
| 20-Jan-2003 |
First FMC newsletter send. Publication list has been updated. The examples section has been modified. Current work: Glossary, Metamodel, Reference Sheets. |
| 18-Dec-2002 |
Version 1.5 of FMC stencils for Visio available. Now with support for Visio Version 5.0 or higher. Current work: Glossary, Reference Sheets. |
| 17-Dec-2002 |
A Quick Introduction to FMC is now available. Current work: Glossary, Reference Sheets, Visio 5.0 FMC stencils. |
| 09-Dec-2002 |
Version 1.4 of FMC stencils for Visio 2000 is available. The publication list has been updated and separated in two groups: "scientific papers and books" and "master thesis". A discussion forum is now ready to be used. At the moment we are working on the Glossary and the Reference Sheets. A Visio 5.0 version of the FMC stencils is near to completion. |
| 25-Oct-2002 | Interface for the fmc-news newsletter updated. Publication list updated and restructured. Improved compatibility with different browsers. Minor changes to the metamodel. |
| 08-Oct-2002 | Release of the web site. Some pages are not yet completed and therefore some links in the navigation panel are in dark gray. Please subscribe to our newsletter to keep you informed about new updates of this site. |