Behavioral Science and Diversity in Software Engineering

Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering

S oftware engineering for computational science and engineering (CSE) is a topic of increasing relevance for many scientific and engineering domains. Historically, this topic has fallen into a void among many related domains. Traditionally, software engineering (SE) research has focused more on the business/IT domain than the scientific or engineering domain. SE researchers have often made the ...

Software Engineering for Science

Behavioral science, engineering, and poetry revisited.

Forty years ago, Lehrman (1971) identified 2 orientations to the study of animal behavior. The natural history orientation conducted field and lab research designed to reveal how animals cope with the circumstances of their natural environment. Such research reveals the diversity among different types of animals and differences between the world of animals and the world of humans (i.e., "poetry...

Mathematics, Computer Science, Software Engineering

This paper examines three ideas: First, the traditional relationship between a science, the mathematics it uses and the engineering based on it. Second, the nature of (software) computer science, which may not be a science at all, and its unusual use of mathematics. And finally, the nature of software engineering, its relationship with computer science, and its use of mathematics called ‘formal...

Chemical Engineering Software and Legal Protection Thereof

In recent years, an increasing number of Chemical Engineering Software (CES), which play an important role in improving efficiency in the petroleum industry, has been introduced to the                market. Generally, software is the product of intellectual creativity, but protection of the intellectual property residing in software is the subject of some controversy.  This paper explores the ...