Thriving Systems Theory and Metaphor-Driven Modeling (Hardcover, 2010 ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer London
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Leslie J. Waguespack
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	167
Edition:	2010 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-84996-301-5
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Computer programming > Software engineering
LSN:	1-84996-301-0
Barcode:	9781849963015

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