Flourishing creativity in software development via Internetware paradigm

• Published in: Science China. Information sciences 2016-08, Vol.59 (8), p.36-48, Article 080103
• Main Authors: Liu, Lin, Feng, Letong, Li, Yanqing, Jing, Delin, Yang, Hongji
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Computer Science; Creativity; Information Systems and Communication Service; Research Paper; Software; Software development; 人类思维; 创造力; 开发程序; 网构软件; 网络分布; 计算机软件开发; 设计过程; 软件系统
• ISSN: 1674-733X; 1869-1919
• DOI: 10.1007/s11432-016-5596-7

While culture being the software controlling human mind, computer software development becomes one of the most creative activities that human undertake since the civilisation began. The only limitation in software creation is human imagination, and that limit is often selfwimposed. The ＂Internetware＂, referring to a software paradigm, aims to satisfy the need of human kind using Internet as an integrated development and exe- cution platform. Such software systems are composed of entities distributed through the Internetwork, allowing connections that would he impossible or difficult to make otherwise. One of the tasks for the Internetware is to accommodate creativity, to understand the general settings of creative design process and to develop programs that can enhance creativity without necessarily being creative themselves. Therefore, it can be summarized that a development environment needs to be built to best support software creation process of six steps including searching, ideating, specifying, coding, testing and evolving. An E-Health application eco-system is used to illustrate the proposed development process model.