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- research-articleOctober 2010
Rubber ducks, nightmares, and unsaturated predicates: proto-scientific schemata are good for agile
OOPSLA '10: Proceedings of the ACM international conference on Object oriented programming systems languages and applicationsPages 901–917https://doi.org/10.1145/1869459.1869534Fine-grain case studies of scientific inquiry, lessons from linguistics on metaphoric thinking, the epistemology of Charles Sanders Peirce, recent work on architectural image-schemata, along with the computer world's own theorist, Peter Naur, all ...
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ACM SIGPLAN Notices: Volume 45 Issue 10 - research-articleSeptember 2010
Patterns for story craft
SugarLoafPLoP '10: Proceedings of the 8th Latin American Conference on Pattern Languages of ProgramsArticle No.: 1, Pages 1–24https://doi.org/10.1145/2581507.2581508Stories are pervasive and central to all software development methods, but, curiously, the purpose of stories (also known as Scenarios and Use-cases) as well as the skills required to create them are seldom discussed. This paper offers a set of patterns ...
- research-articleOctober 2009
Agile anthropology and Alexander's architecture: an essay in three voices
OOPSLA '09: Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object oriented programming systems languages and applicationsPages 529–546https://doi.org/10.1145/1640089.1640131During its formative decades the software community looked twice to the theories of Christopher Alexander for inspiration, both times failing to completely master the architect's most useful insights. Now a third opportunity presents itself with ...
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ACM SIGPLAN Notices: Volume 44 Issue 10 - articleSeptember 1997
Partial Deductive Closure: Logical Simulation and Management Science
Management Science (MANS), Volume 43, Issue 9Pages 1229–1245This research is part of a larger effort to build machine-based tools for developing scientific theories. In analogy with the research process in empirical research, we describe a logical cycle of theory development: 1 starting with an informal version ...