The identity of computing has been fiercely debated throughout its short history. Why is it still
so hard to define computing as an academic discipline? Is computing a scientific …

Computing, today more than ever before, is a multi-faceted discipline which collates several
methodologies, areas of interest, and approaches: mathematics, engineering, programming …

Research in the area of programming languages has different facets--from formal reasoning
about new programming language constructs (such as type soundness proofs for new type …

It is relatively easy to state that information retrieval (IR) is a scientific discipline but it is
rather difficult to understand why it is science because what is science is still under debate in …

The problem researched was small business leaders' early and limited adoption of cloud
computing. Business leaders that do not use cloud computing may forfeit the benefits of its …

This paper gives my personal view on the field of information retrieval (IR), by first presenting
my own definition of the field, and then pointing out why IR isn't an engineering science yet …

By consideration of scientific paradigm shifts, in this chapter the authors evaluate possible
parallels in the evolution of modelling, and particularly metamodelling and modelling …

Computing, or informatics as we call it in Europe, covers many areas. In this paper we will
discuss an important difference between two of these areas: software engineering and …

An understanding of the dynamic interactions between resources and the management
decisions that control them is critical to effectively manage contingencies during the …

The classical scientific method has been settled through the last centuries as a cyclic,
iterative process of observation, hypothesis formulation, and confirmation/refutation of …