Thriving systems theory and metaphor-driven modeling
Title:
Thriving systems theory and metaphor-driven modeling
Author:
Waguespack, Leslie J.
ISBN:
9781849963015
9781849963022
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Springer, c2010.
Physical Description:
xi, 167 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Introduction -- 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 -- 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 -- Epilogue.