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Towards An Ontology Of Software: A Requirements Engineering Perspective
Ontological distinctions behind software change
In conclusion, we explore in this paper the ontological distinctions underlying the different reasons for software change, by making a sharp distinction between different kinds of software artifacts, and describing the ways they are connected in the context of a software…
Software, differenlty from laws or recipes, produces practical results in the real world
As Eden and Turner observe [7], a peculiar aspect of software, with respect to other information artifacts such as laws or recipes, is its bridging role between the abstract and the con- crete: despite the fact that it has an abstract nature, it is designed to produce specific…