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The Software Continuum Concept: Towards a Biologically Inspired Model for Robust E-Business Software Automation
2005
Communications of the Association for Information Systems
This paper introduces a new concept, the software continuum concept based on the observation that exists a general parallelism between the software continuum from bits to business/Internet ecosystems and the natural continuum from particles to ecosystems. The general parallelism suggests that homeomorphisms may be identified and therefore some concepts, processes, and/or mechanisms in one continuum can be investigated for application in the other continuum. We argue that the homeomorphisms give
doi:10.17705/1cais.01515
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