Alfonso Pierantonio contacted me about using our DSM book on an MDD course he is running at the University of L'Aquila, Italy. He's also researching important topics for DSM: model differencing, evolution and synchronization, and asked about our academic pricing for MetaEdit+. For some reason it only just occurred to me from that message that we should have a section on the DSM Forum site to list universities that teach or research DSM. I can find a lot of them from our customer list and my emails, but if you want to make sure you are included, please add a comment below or contact me.

Coincidentally the very next day I saw the following message in the comp.lang.smalltalk newsgroup, advertising for a PhD position in DSM:

"Supporting the Concept of Early Warning Analysis" (SCEWA) is a 5 year research project that began in January 2008. It is funded by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency.

The research will be focused on the development of methods and tools which are aimed at supporting the analysis, design, and development of early warning systems in engineering facilities and in critical infrastructures whose undisturbed operation is important for maintaining and improving the quality of our everyday life.

Currently, we are seeking to recruit one PhD student to work in the area of Domain Specific Modeling. The objective of the research is to define a domain specific modeling language for early warning systems.

More information about the project and the PhD position: SCEWA web site
PDF version of the announcement

Please forward this information to students who may be interested in this position.
Thank you in advance,
Dr. Ioannis Dokas, jdokas@gmail.com