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Software engineers, and especially requirements engineers, are vitally concerned with describing the world. Description merits recognition as a discipline in its own right. In this talk, some aspects of this putative discipline are briefly explored.
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Jackson, M.A. A discipline of description (keynote talk). Requirements Eng 3, 73–78 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02919965
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02919965