A PHILOSOPHY BASIS FOR DOMAIN SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
DTU Compute, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Techn.Univ.of Denmark, DK-2800 Kgs.Lyngby, Denmark
MAE, MRANS, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow
http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~dibj/ [www2.imm.dtu.dk]
COM1 Level 2
Cerebro@SoC, COM1-02-05
Abstract:
Philosophy of mathematics is the branch of philosophy that studies the assumptions, foundations, and implications of mathematics, and purports to provide a viewpoint of the nature and methodology of mathematics and to understand the place of mathematics.
Philosophy of physics is the philosophical and conceptual study of the major physical theories: statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and quantum field theory, and theories of space-time, gravity, and cosmology.
In this colloquium I present some ideas on a possible philosophy of computer science, at least one of domain science: which are the assumptions, foundations, and implications of domain descriptions and how do they relate to philosophy, in particular philosophy of fysics.
In my talk I will first give a capsule view of domain analysis & description, then review relevant parts of the philosophy of Kai Sorlander, and finally interpret that philosophy in the light of domain science.
Biodata:
DB was Prof. of Computing Science at The Techn. Univ. of Denmark 1. Sept. 1976 - 31 March 2007. DB was with IBM R&D 1962-1976. At IBM DB worked with Gene Amdahl, John Backus, E.F.Codd (Relational Databases) and at the IBM Lab., Vienna, Austria - where DB worked in the small team first R&D'ing VDM, the Vienna Development Method, the first ISO standardised formal method. DB co-founded Dansk Datamatik Center 1979-1989, led many EU R&D projects including the formal spec. of a semantics for Ada, the R&D of, and compilers for CHILL and Ada, and the RAISE, Rigorous Approach to Industrial Software Engineering. 1991-1997 DB was founding and first UN Director of the Macau-based UNU-IIST, the UN University's Intl. Inst. for SW Techn. In 2006 DB published a three volume book "Software Engineering" with Springer.