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Architecture definition
Between 2006 and 2011 I was involved in the effort to revise the international standard ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 – Architecture description. The standard provides a conceptual framework (or ontology) serving...
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Separation of concerns
The International standard ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011 “Systems and software engineering – Architecture description” is the formalization of an approach to reducing or handling complexity when designing or...
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Analysis
In science and engineering, one method commonly used to handle complexity is analysis. A complex whole is typically decomposed hierarchically into elements, each of which, by definition, is smaller and...
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Culture drives innovation
The European Union has published a report on the increasing importance of the Culture and creative industries (CCI) for economic growth. The report recognizes that although inherently innovative, the...
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Mother of invention
There is an old saying that “Necessity is the mother of invention”. The phrase thesaurus provides the following meaning: Difficult situations inspire ingenious solutions. When forced to, humans will...
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TED Talks
The non-profit organization TED has since its start in 1984 evolved to become a really influential platform for both outlook and insight! It started off as a conference bringing themes from Technology,...
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Norman
In the basic course on Cognitive science that I am attending this spring, we use the well-known book “The design of everyday things” by Donald Norman. The book starts off by giving a large number of...
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