Niche Modeling: Ecological Metaphors for Sustainable Software in Science
Nicholas Weber, Andrea Thomer, Michael Twidale
TL;DR
This paper explores the use of ecological metaphors to understand and improve sustainable software development in science, questioning its usefulness and potential for fostering new insights.
Contribution
It introduces ecological metaphors as a conceptual framework for analyzing software development environments in scientific research.
Findings
Ecological metaphors can provoke new perspectives on software sustainability.
The paper encourages further exploration of ecological concepts in software development.
It challenges traditional views by proposing alternative metaphors for software ecosystems.
Abstract
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.
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TopicsScientific Computing and Data Management