Niche Modeling: Ecological Metaphors for Sustainable Software in Science
arXiv:1309.1810v14 citations
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This is a conceptual position paper that offers incremental ideas for researchers and practitioners in software development and science.
The paper explores the use of ecological metaphors to describe software development environments, aiming to provoke thought and assess their productivity without claiming superiority.
This position paper is aimed at providing some history and provocations for the use of an ecological metaphor to describe software development environments. We do not claim that the ecological metaphor is the best or only way of looking at software - rather we want to ask if it can indeed be a productive and thought provoking one.