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A New Perspective in Scientific Software Development

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Scientific software development is a process whereby software is created to assist scientists in achieving their target solutions. This process lacks harmonious communication between scientists and software engineers and thus, a gap needs to be breached between the scientific community and the computing world. This vital issue can be resolved by utilizing a new perspective in scientific software development, using well-established practices of software engineering. This new paradigm is discussed in a case study with several scientists, who confirm its effectiveness for developing scientific software if it can be adapted to their environment.

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Acknowledgments

I like to thank Dr. Diane Kelly of Royal Military College of Canada for her wise guidance during this research work. I also like to thank Dr. Daniel Amyot, Dr. Craig Kuziemsky and Dr. Liam Peyton of University of Ottawa, as well as Dr. Paul Young and Dr. Kenton Ko of Queen’s University for their invaluable input in this research work.

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  1. School of Computing, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, USA

    Atif Farid Mohammad

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    Tarek Sobh

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Mohammad, A.F. (2010). A New Perspective in Scientific Software Development. In: Sobh, T. (eds) Innovations and Advances in Computer Sciences and Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3658-2_23

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