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Thriving Systems Theory and Metaphor-Driven Modeling (Hardcover, 2010 ed.)
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Thriving Systems Theory and Metaphor-Driven Modeling (Hardcover, 2010 ed.)
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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 Alexander's fifty-year quest to
explain great physical architecture and gave birth to
pattern-languages for building that underpin much of modern systems
engineering. How is it that so many individual stakeholders
consistently recognize the same quality, the same beauty in a
system? This question led George Lakoff to research the role of
conceptual metaphor in human understanding. What is essential to
stakeholders' satisfaction with systems? Fred Brooks, in his
publications, addressed this question. This monograph fuses these
diverse streams of thought in proposing Thriving Systems Theory by
translating Alexander's properties of physical design quality into
the abstract domain of information systems and modeling.
Metaphor-Driven Modeling incorporates the theory while examining
its impact throughout the system life cycle: modeling, design and
deployment. The result is holistic and innovative, a perspective on
system quality invaluable to students, practitioners and
researchers of software and systems engineering.
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