Ptolemaic Metamodelling?

2013 ◽  
pp. 90-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Henderson-Sellers ◽  
Owen Eriksson ◽  
Cesar Gonzalez-Perez ◽  
Pär J. Ågerfalk
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Ontology Engineering ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Modelling Language ◽  
Scientific Paradigm ◽  
Change Of Direction ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
To Come

By consideration of scientific paradigm shifts, in this chapter the authors evaluate possible parallels in the evolution of modelling, and particularly metamodelling and modelling language construction, as a basis for evaluating whether or not the time is ripe for a similar change of direction in model language development for software engineering. Having identified several inconsistencies and paradoxes in the current orthodoxy, they then introduce a number of ideas from outside software engineering (including language use, philosophy, and ontology engineering) that seem to solve many of these issues. Whether these new ideas, together, are sufficient to create a shift in mindset or whether they are simply the stimulus for others to create new and orthogonal ideas remains to be seen. The authors urge the modelling and metamodelling communities to search out that new orthodoxy (i.e. instigate a paradigm shift) that will, necessarily, ensure that the science will offer simpler and more satisfying solutions in the years to come.

Deutsch als schwächere Sprache bei deutsch-polnisch bilingualen Kindern: Studie zur Negation- und Verbstellung

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-297
Author(s):  
Aldona Sopata ◽  
Kamil Długosz
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Language Use ◽  
The Other ◽  
Bilingual Children ◽  
Striking Difference ◽  
Final Position ◽  
Development Characteristic ◽  
Processing Mechanisms ◽  
Constrained Input

AbstractThis article examines the acquisition of German as the weaker language in the cases of German-Polish bilingual children. Focusing on negation and verb position, phenomena that have frequently been taken as diagnostic when distinguishing between the course of language development characteristic for first (L1) and second language acquisition (L2), we analyse experimental and productive data from six simultaneously bilingual children. Due to the constrained input, German is their weaker language. The results in Forced Choice and Grammaticality Judgements tasks are compared with the results of monolingual children. We show that in the area of negation the acquisition of German as the weaker language resembles L1, and in the area of inversion and verb final position the development of the weaker language is delayed. The striking difference between bilinguals’ results in the experimental vs. productive tasks points to specific processing mechanisms in bilingual language use. In narrative contexts of the production tasks the language of the performance is activated, while the other is inhibited, which leads to a target-like performance. Structural properties of the stronger language tend to be activated, however, in the experimental tasks involving the weaker language, resulting in non-target-like responses.

scholarly journals UML Diagrams in Software Engineering Research: A Systematic Literature Review

Proceedings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Hatice Koç ◽  
Ali Mert Erdoğan ◽  
Yousef Barjakly ◽  
Serhat Peker
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Modelling Language ◽  
Design Models ◽  
Engineering Research ◽  
Object Oriented Design ◽  
Unified Modelling Language ◽  
Visual Models ◽  
Uml Diagrams ◽  
Software Engineering Research

Software engineering is a discipline utilizing Unified Modelling Language (UML) diagrams, which are accepted as a standard to depict object-oriented design models. UML diagrams make it easier to identify the requirements and scopes of systems and applications by providing visual models. In this manner, this study aims to systematically review the literature on UML diagram utilization in software engineering research. A comprehensive review was conducted over the last two decades, spanning from 2000 to 2019. Among several papers, 128 were selected and examined. The main findings showed that UML diagrams were mostly used for the purpose of design and modeling, and class diagrams were the most commonly used ones.

scholarly journals Doubling down on serendipity

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine E. Snow
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Doctoral Student ◽  
To Come ◽  
Minority View ◽  
The Relationship

The lessons I have learned over the last many years seem always to come in pairs – a lesson about the findings that brings with it a lesson about life as a researcher...Lesson 1. Even as a doctoral student, I believed that the sorts of social interactions young children had with adults supported language acquisition. In 1971, when I completed my dissertation, that was a minority view, and one ridiculed by many. I was, unfortunately, deflected from a full-on commitment to research on the relationship between social environment and language development for many years by the general atmosphere of disdain for such claims. In the intervening years, of course, evidence to support the claim has accumulated, and now it is generally acknowledged that a large part of the variance among children in language skills can be explained by their language environments. This consensus might have been achieved earlier had I and others been braver about pursuing it.[Download the PDF and read more...]

scholarly journals Intern and congregant perceptions of the impact of a United Methodist ministry internship program in rural Missouri

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Travis Dimmitt
Keyword(s):  
United Methodist ◽  
United Methodist Church ◽  
Methodist Church ◽  
Rural Churches ◽  
Vocational Ministry ◽  
Differential Outcomes ◽  
Regional University ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Impact

This qualitative study examines a ministry internship program at a rural regional university in Missouri. The study sought to determine the impact of the internship on both interns in the program and on congregants in churches served by the program. Guided by the lens of self-efficacy as identified originally by Bandura (1977), the researcher conducted interviews, focus groups, and examined archival data to ascertain impact. Completed research helped identify eight areas of impact. The internship allowed for support and transformation of both interns and congregants throughout its duration. Interns were able to gain a realistic understanding of the ministry field. Interns were able to reflect on their practice through differential outcomes. Interns were able to ascertain a potential calling to vocational ministry. Congregants reported an influx of new ideas into their churches. Rural churches were able to stay open. Many interns went on to become young vocational ministers within the United Methodist Church. Both congregants and interns reported the internship allowed them to come closer to God.

Three Dimensional Creativity: Three Navigations to Extend our Thoughts

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-160
Author(s):  
Kwang H. Lee ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Time Space ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Asking Questions ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Brain

Creativity is an ability to come up with a new idea. In many cases, getting out of reality can bring forth a new idea. Since asking questions stimulates the brain to release us from reality, repeating such questions forms the habit of asking many questions that increases creativity. A framework consisting of three kinds of questions is provided. The three kinds of questions are on axes of “time,” “space,” and “field” and the framework is called as three dimensional creativity. Traveling along the three axes allows escaping from a fixed idea, and thus helps us to raise new ideas.

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