Program verification: the very idea
Communications of the ACM
Four paradigms of information systems development
Communications of the ACM
Theoretical Computer Science - Images of programming dedicated to the memory of Andrei P. Ershov
Qualitative research in information systems
MIS Quarterly
A set of principles for conducting and evaluating interpretive field studies in information systems
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on intensive research in information systems
Social processes and proofs of theorems and programs
Communications of the ACM
A new kind of science
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Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everythingin the Cosmos, fromOur Brains to Black Holes
Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos
Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos
Computing as a Science: A Survey of Competing Viewpoints
Minds and Machines
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In many research fields---notably social sciences but also in those fields where design, experiment-based science, and social sciences are mixed---researchers must often describe their epistemological and ontological commitments in research reports. The research literature describes those commitments in various ways, often grouped under research paradigms such as positivism, post-positivism, and constructivism, and described as "world views." This paper presents the bare bones of the ontological and epistemological questions in scientific practice. Ontologically speaking, subject matters can be mind-dependent or mind-independent. Epistemologically speaking, elements of research may be more or less open to interpretation. This paper introduces a simplified approach to standard research terminology for computing and engineering students by offering a rough-and-ready way for resolving ontological and epistemological questions.