Flourishing creativity in software development via Internetware paradigm  

作　　者：Lin LIU Letong FENG Yanqing LI Delin JING Hongji YANG 

机构地区：[1]School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China [2]Centre for Creative Computing, Bath Spa University, Corsham SN13 0BZ, England, UK

出　　处：《Science China(Information Sciences)》2016年第8期36-48,共13页中国科学（信息科学）（英文版）

基　　金：financial support from Natural Science and Technology Support Program (Grant No. 2015BAH14F02);National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61432020)

摘　　要：While culture being the software controlling human mind, computer software development becomes one of the most creative activities that human undertake since the civilisation began. The only limitation in software creation is human imagination, and that limit is often selfwimposed. The ＂Internetware＂, referring to a software paradigm, aims to satisfy the need of human kind using Internet as an integrated development and exe- cution platform. Such software systems are composed of entities distributed through the Internetwork, allowing connections that would he impossible or difficult to make otherwise. One of the tasks for the Internetware is to accommodate creativity, to understand the general settings of creative design process and to develop programs that can enhance creativity without necessarily being creative themselves. Therefore, it can be summarized that a development environment needs to be built to best support software creation process of six steps including searching, ideating, specifying, coding, testing and evolving. An E-Health application eco-system is used to illustrate the proposed development process model.While culture being the software controlling human mind, computer software development becomes one of the most creative activities that human undertake since the civilisation began. The only limitation in software creation is human imagination, and that limit is often selfwimposed. The ＂Internetware＂, referring to a software paradigm, aims to satisfy the need of human kind using Internet as an integrated development and exe- cution platform. Such software systems are composed of entities distributed through the Internetwork, allowing connections that would he impossible or difficult to make otherwise. One of the tasks for the Internetware is to accommodate creativity, to understand the general settings of creative design process and to develop programs that can enhance creativity without necessarily being creative themselves. Therefore, it can be summarized that a development environment needs to be built to best support software creation process of six steps including searching, ideating, specifying, coding, testing and evolving. An E-Health application eco-system is used to illustrate the proposed development process model.

关 键 词：requirements information system INTERNETWARE CREATIVITY evolution 

分 类 号：TP311.52[自动化与计算机技术—计算机软件与理论] TP311[自动化与计算机技术—计算机科学与技术]