Scientific methodology: study design

Methodology of Stylistic Study in Persian Carpet Design and Motifs

The Iranian carpets, relative to clime and culture of the productive societies, have accepted various visual and technical characters. Scientific and Methodological study of this character and their formative principles is one of the permanent debates among researchers. The main issue of this research is to consider the diversity and individuality of research and analyze methods in carpet studi...

The Study of Design Research Methodology

Studies on design research methodology are infrequent, although there is a consensus that more eeort is needed for improving design research quality. Previous calls for exercising better research methodology have been unsuccessful. As numerous studies reveal, there is no single sci-entiic methodology that is exercised in science or in any other research practice. Rather, research methodologies ...

Ballista Design and Methodology Ballista Design and Methodology

This report serves as initial documentation of the design and methodology to be employed by Ballista, an automatic robustness testing and hardening tool for Commercial Off-The-Shelf software components. The Ballista architecture includes the following major components: • Automatic testing of software modules determines whether they behave robustly in the face of exceptional inputs. • Characteri...

Modifying “Pico” Question into “Picos” Model for More Robust and Reproducible Presentation of the Methodology Employed in A Scientific Study

Software Writers' Workshops as Scientific Methodology

pieces of literature. A pattern is a configuration or solution to a problem in the design and/or implementation of software that is repeatedly found, though almost always in slightly different form depending on the circumstances. A pattern then is not a programming language construct or an idiom, though in some cases it might be possible to generalize a pattern that way. Many software systems a...