about the Course We Live in a Complex World with Diverse People, Firms, and governments Whose behaviors aggregate to Produce novel, Unexpected Phenomena. We see political uprisings, market crashes, and a never ending array of social trends. How do We make sense of IT? Models. Evidence shows that people who think with models consistently outperform those who don't. And, moreover People Who Think with lots of models outperform People Who Only use one.

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Software product lines provide a systematic means of managing variability in a suite of products. They have many benefits but there are three major barriers that can prevent them from reaching their full potential. First, there is the challenge of scale: a large number of variants may exist in a product line context and the number of interrelationships and dependencies can rise exponentially. Second, variations tend to be systemic by nature in that they affect the whole architecture of the software product line. Third, software product lines often serve different business contexts, each with its own intricacies and complexities. The AMPLE (http://www.ample-project.net/) approach tackles these three challenges by combining advances in aspect-oriented software development and model-driven engineering. The full suite of methods and tools that constitute this approach are discussed in detail in this edited volume and illustrated using three real-world industrial case studies.

Tamiya Model Magazine International is a scale modelling magazine that uses Tamiya models as the starting point for demonstrating more advanced techniques. Covers cars, AFVs, aircraft, and figures. The feature articles are mainly concerned with finishing and super-detailing the models, rather than kit major conversions. This is hard core modeling at it's very best, not for beginners.