Software and Related Disciplines

I started this blog among other things in order to try to connect practices and processes used in other disciplines to software design and viceversa, i.e., how software can impact and help other knowledge areas. Recently, I've found two examples that are related to this intention:

1. In this article is discussed new ways of managing projects in civil architecture and their relationship to agile techniques used in the software process.
2. This book is related to the use of data-intensive computing for scientific discovery in the fields of Earth and Environment, Health and Wellbeing, Scientific Infrastructure and Scholarly Communication.
   

How to do Research: Reading, Writing and Evaluating Technical Papers

I collect here two texts I found some time ago that are helpful when doing research on software systems. They are related to reading/writing technical papers from/for software conferences and evaluating papers when involved in a program commitee respectively. The texts have been writen by well-known and respected people in the area of software systems.

1. Umesh Bellur: "How to Read a Research Paper", Date unknown
   
2. Patrick Valduriez: "Some Hints to Improve Writing Technical Papers", 1994
   
3. Timothy Roscoe: "Writing Reviews for Systems Conferences", 2007
   

Searching in the web, I've also found this page at INRIA collecting some other papers/presentations with helpful hints on how to do research.

08/02/2009 Another presentation about reading effectively technical papers written by Vaide Narvaez.