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Thriving Systems Theory and Metaphor-Driven Modeling

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Authors:
  1. Leslie J. Waguespack

    1. , Computer Information Systems, Bentley University, Waltham, USA

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  • Integrates theories from three disciplines: physical architecture, cognitive linguistics and systems/software engineering Presents a unifying foundation explaining the interrelationships between systems and software engineering

  • The 15 choice properties translated from Alexander’s center properties together represent the most comprehensive set of systems engineering

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Thriving Systems Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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  3. Thriving Systems Theory and Metaphor-Driven Modeling

    1. Introduction

      • Leslie J. Waguespack
      Pages 1-6

  4. Thriving Systems Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Christopher Alexander’s Nature of Order

      • Leslie J. Waguespack
      Pages 9-14

    3. Wholeness and Center Properties Mapped to Modeling

      • Leslie J. Waguespack
      Pages 15-26

    4. Achieving Versus Observing Strength in Choice Properties

      • Leslie J. Waguespack
      Pages 27-37

    5. Building Life into Information Systems

      • Leslie J. Waguespack
      Pages 39-45

    6. A Vision of Thriving Systems

      • Leslie J. Waguespack
      Pages 47-80

  5. Thriving Systems Theory in Systems Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Metaphorology

      • Leslie J. Waguespack
      Pages 83-89

    3. Metaphor-Driven Modeling

      • Leslie J. Waguespack
      Pages 91-98

    4. Protecting Life in System Life Cycles

      • Leslie J. Waguespack
      Pages 99-103

    5. Metaphor-Driven Systems Engineering

      • Leslie J. Waguespack
      Pages 105-114

    6. Thriving Systems and Beauty

      • Leslie J. Waguespack
      Pages 115-121

    7. Promoting Life Using the Object-Oriented Paradigm

      • Leslie J. Waguespack
      Pages 123-138

    8. Promoting Life Using the Relational Paradigm

      • Leslie J. Waguespack
      Pages 139-151

    9. Thriving Systems Through Metaphor-Driven Modeling

      • Leslie J. Waguespack
      Pages 153-161

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 163-167
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • , Computer Information Systems, Bentley University, Waltham, USA

    Leslie J. Waguespack

About the author

Dr. Waguespack is a graduate of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (formerly USL) with degrees in Computer Systems and Software, MIS and Computer Architecture. After five years in the USAF, headquarters personnel, directorate of the computer systems, modeling branch, he taught in the Computer Science department at LSU. Since 1984 he has been teaching in the Computer Information Systems department at Bentley University - systems EAD (engineering/analysis/design), object-oriented systems EAD, software project management and database.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Thriving Systems Theory and Metaphor-Driven Modeling

  • Authors: Leslie J. Waguespack

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-302-2

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-84996-301-5Published: 07 October 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-6214-8Published: 28 November 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-84996-302-2Published: 01 October 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 167

  • Topics: Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Software Engineering

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