Viewpoints: The Ongoing Dialogue

Viewpoints: Art and Architecture as Locus for Dialogue: Inter-Religious Dialogue Through Art

Mitral valve prolapse prevalence and complications: an ongoing dialogue.

Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is generally understood to be the systolic displacement of an abnormally thickened, redundant mitral leaflet into the left atrium during systole.1 This valvular abnormality has been associated with mid-systolic clicks, late systolic murmurs, and serious complications such as bacterial endocarditis, severe mitral regurgitation, and sudden death.2 Unfortunately, our un...

Viewpoints on Viewpoints

This paper expresses the viewpoints, or opinions of the author on the use of viewpoints in the software development process. I will concentrate most of my attention on requirements engineering, but I also treat the topic in the broader environment of software development. I will state without much justiication, besides the presentation itself, key concepts that I believe are the basics for the ...

The Viewpoints FAQ

The structure of this brief paper follows an emerging convention the FAQ Frequently Asked Questions list. FAQs have grown out of Internet newgroups where participants, tired of seeing the same questions repeated by newcomers, provide a list of canned answers to the most frequently asked questions. An FAQ also provides a covert role in defusing tiresome or unduly acrimonious debates by summarisi...

Process Viewpoints

This paper discusses the need for a systematic framework which can be used to analyse software processes and derive process models. We propose the idea of process viewpoints which have associated process models and which incorporate questions about process and potential process improvement. The questions associated with each process viewpoint are derived from organisational concerns which must ...