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Thriving Systems Theory and Metaphor-Driven Modeling

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Waguespack, Leslie J. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Edición:1st ed. 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Thriving Systems Theory and Metaphor-Driven Modeling
  • Thriving Systems Theory
  • Christopher Alexander's Nature of Order
  • Wholeness and Center Properties Mapped to Modeling
  • Achieving Versus Observing Strength in Choice Properties
  • Building Life into Information Systems
  • A Vision of Thriving Systems
  • Thriving Systems Theory in Systems Development
  • Metaphorology
  • Metaphor-Driven Modeling
  • Protecting Life in System Life Cycles
  • Metaphor-Driven Systems Engineering
  • Thriving Systems and Beauty
  • Promoting Life Using the Object-Oriented Paradigm
  • Promoting Life Using the Relational Paradigm
  • Thriving Systems Through Metaphor-Driven Modeling.