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Towards An Ontology Of Software: A Requirements Engineering Perspective
How programs act on the external environment
In conclusion, while in the previous section we focused on the immediate function of programs as technical artefacts –producing some effects inside a computer– here the Jackson and Zave’s model allows us to understand how programs play their ultimate function, which is…
Foundation for software evolution concepts: refactoring, reengineering etc..
Besides contributing to clarify concepts and terminologies in the software engineering community, our work could also be used as a foundation for software evolution. For instance, on the basis of our analysis, a refined terminology for different kinds of software change may be…
How a software product gets new versions
Consider now one such software product, say MS Word for Mac. Starting with version V1, which denotes the specific software system constituting the software prod- uct at the time of its first release, this product will suffer a number of possible changes in its constituents in…
Software systems versus software products
While the essential function of a software system is to control the external behavior of a certain machine (i.e., according to the Jackson et al.’s approach, that part of the behavior that is “visible” to both the environment and machine), the essential function of a software…
Yes Again To The End Of The Digital Humanities ! Please ! | Roger Malina
I predict that 30 years from now the term “digital humanities” will have disappeared from our vocabulary
Astronomy went through a brief phase of “digital Astronomy” as a “transitional term” describing an emerging area of technical specialisation in astronomy ( a search search comes up pretty empty- as does google ngrams- digital astronomy has not been used as a term since the…