Science and ethics must not be separated

Science Must Be Responsible to Society, Not to Politics

Governments rightly request the advice of scientists on matters of fact that affect the public good, from climate change to cancer screening. Scientists must then assess available data and present recommendations based on the data. But what is the role of scientists when politicians see these recommendations as inconvenient? In mid-November 2009 the United States Preventive Services Task Force ...

Psychiatry must not be separated from its historical and cultural context

Variability Models Must Not be Invariant!

Variability modeling techniques are used to specify variable aspects of members of a family of related software artifacts. Instances of variability models are then used to efficiently produce members of such a family. By making variability explicit, variability models determine implicitly the common properties among family members as well. This partitioning of information into variable and inva...

What Must (Not) Be Available Where?

Arranging the distribution of data, objects or components is a critical task that can ultimately affect the performance, integrity and reliability of distributed system. This paper suggests to write down what must (not) be available where in order to reveal conflicting distribution requirements and to detect problems early on. Distribution requirements are expressed via a new notion of constrai...

— Problem Statement — Variability Models Must Not be

Variability modeling techniques are used to specify variable aspects of members of a family of related software artifacts. Instances of variability models are then used to efficiently produce members of such a family. By making variability explicit, variability models determine implicitly the common properties among family members as well. This partitioning of information into variable and inva...