PHP14 HAVE YOUR CAKE OR EAT IT: DO DECISIONS BASED ON COSTEFFECTIVENESS UNDERMINE INCENTIVES FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT?

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Introduction I always feel guilty when I go see the dentist. We all know the rules—avoid sweets, brush after every meal, floss several times a day. Talking about tool and shop safety gets the same treatment in articles and books– always read the owner’s manual, inspect your tool for hazards daily, make sure your tools are properly grounded (sound familiar?) The challenge I present to you is tha...

The Perfective Paradox: or How to Eat Your Cake and Have It Too

Have Your Cake and Eat it Too? Managing Knowledge in Hybrid Agile-Traditional Development Projects

This research examines how knowledge management elements of systems development projects are adapted to correspond with the increasing use of agile practices. Using a single, longitudinal case study, we draw on interview data from an initial CRM implementation that used a traditional approach, followed by a second project phase employing a hybrid agile-traditional approach. Oriented using the c...

Have Your Cake and Eat it, Too: Data Provenance for Turing-Complete SQL Queries

We report on our work about the computation of data provenance for feature-rich SQL. Among further constructs, our prototype supports correlated subqueries, aggregations, recursive queries and window functions. Our analysis approach completely sidesteps relational algebra and instead requires a translation of the input query into an imperativestyle program. Provided that the target language is ...

Linking Types for Multi-Language Software: Have Your Cake and Eat It Too

Software developers compose systems from components written in many different languages. A business-logic component may be written in Java or OCaml, a resource-intensive component in C or Rust, and a high-assurance component in Coq. In this multi-language world, program execution sends values from one linguistic context to another. This boundary-crossing exposes values to contexts with unforese...