Knowware: the third star after Hardware and Software
by Ruqian Lu
Publisher: Polimetrica 2007
ISBN/ASIN: 887699095X
ISBN-13: 9788876990953
Number of pages: 109
Description:
This book proposes to separate knowledge from software and to make it a commodity that is called knowware. The architecture, representation and function of Knowware are discussed. The principles of knowware engineering and its three life cycle models: furnace model, crystallization model and spiral model are proposed and analyzed. Techniques of software/knowware co-engineering are introduced.
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