Thriving Systems Theory and Metaphor-Driven Modeling

• Main Author: Waguespack, Leslie J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Software engineering.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.; Software Engineering.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-302-2

How is it that one system is more effective, appealing, satisfying and/or more beautiful than another to its stakeholder community? This question drove Christopher Alexanders fifty-year quest to explain great physical architecture and gave birth to pattern-languages for building that underpin much...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part One - Thriving Systems Theory
• 1. Christopher Alexanders Nature Of Order
• 2. Wholeness And Center Properties Mapped To Modeling
• 3. Achieving Vs Observing Strength In Choice Properties
• 4. Building Life Into Information Systems
• 5. A Vision Of Thriving Systems
• Part Two - Thriving Systems Theory In Systems Development
• 6. Metaphorology
• 7. Metaphor-Driven Modeling
• 8. Protecting Life In System Life Cycles
• 9. Metaphor-Driven Systems Engineering
• 10. Thriving Systems And Beauty
• 11. Promoting Life Using The Object oriented Paradigm
• 12. Promoting Life Using The Relational Paradigm
• 13. Thriving Systems Through Metaphor-driven Modeling
• Epilogue
• Index Of Terms.