Thriving Systems Theory and Metaphor-Driven Modeling
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer London : Imprint: Springer,
2010.
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- Thriving Systems Theory and Metaphor-Driven Modeling
- Thriving Systems Theory
- 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
- Thriving Systems Theory in Systems Development
- 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.
