Anna Bobkowska

Intellectual Agreements and Disagreements

by JSCI Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, Rusudan Makhachashvili, and Anna Bobkowska

This article argues that agreements and disagreements are not necessarily contradictions but can ... more This article argues that agreements and disagreements are not necessarily contradictions but can be complementary polarities that play a synergistic role in intellectual dialogue, participatory writing, and transdisciplinary communication. Drawing on Bernard Williams’s ethical pluralism, it emphasizes that disagreement is a natural and valuable aspect of rational inquiry rooted in diverse experiences and perspectives.
Through a recursive and cybernetic approach, the article presents a methodology where contrasting viewpoints are juxtaposed rather than resolved, inviting critical and integrative thinking.
Using the legal concept of Dialectical Truth, the article models knowledge development through respectful, adversarial exchange. It highlights the importance of confronting diverse perspectives in inter- and transdisciplinary contexts as a means of co-learning, self-education, and meaning-making. Ultimately, it proposes disagreement as a driver of understanding and a vital component of recursive knowledge creation.

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Intellectual Agreements and Disagreements

by JSCI Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics and Anna Bobkowska

This article argues that agreements and disagreements are not necessarily contradictions but can ... more This article argues that agreements and disagreements are not necessarily contradictions but can be complementary polarities that play a synergistic role in intellectual dialogue, participatory writing, and transdisciplinary communication. Drawing on Bernard Williams’s ethical pluralism, it emphasizes that disagreement is a natural and valuable aspect of rational inquiry rooted in diverse experiences and perspectives.

Through a recursive and cybernetic approach, the article presents a methodology where contrasting viewpoints are juxtaposed rather than resolved, inviting critical and integrative thinking. Key contributions include:

Jeremy Horne’s "unity of difference," tied to systems theory and cybernetics.

Rusudan Makhachashvili’s application of frame semantics to structured cognitive and communicative disagreement.

Anna Bobkowska’s critique of passive agreement as epistemic inertia.

Using the legal concept of Dialectical Truth, the article models knowledge development through respectful, adversarial exchange. It highlights the importance of confronting diverse perspectives in inter- and transdisciplinary contexts as a means of co-learning, self-education, and meaning-making. Ultimately, it proposes disagreement as a driver of understanding and a vital component of recursive knowledge creation.

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Aspekty metodologiczne interdyscyplinarnej inżynierii oprogramowania

Zeszyty Naukowe Wydziału ETI Politechniki Gdańskiej. Technologie Informacyjne, 2005

Quality model for UML tools in application to UML tool selection and market analysis

Foundations of Control and Management Sciences, 2008

Selected Aspects of Customization of Cognitive Dimensions for Evaluation of Visual Modeling Languages

Springer eBooks, 2004

For the successful application of diagrams in software engineering, high quality visual modelling... more For the successful application of diagrams in software engineering, high quality visual modelling languages (VML) are required. There is a need for new effective methodologies of VML evaluation. This paper discusses selected aspects of applying cognitive dimensions as a basis of the evaluation. Then, it briefly presents CD-VML methodology which integrates the cognitive dimensions with a theory of visual modelling

Projekt grupowy w kształceniu studentów informatyki - doświadczenia na Wydziale ETI Politechniki Gdańskiej

Zeszyty Naukowe Wydziału ETI Politechniki Gdańskiej. Technologie Informacyjne, 2004

Model działania analityka biznesowego w administracji publicznej w celu przeciwdziałania ukrytym wymaganiom

Roczniki Kolegium Analiz Ekonomicznych / Szkoła Główna Handlowa, 2016

A model for the activities of business analysts in public administration for the prevention of hidden requirements

Collegium of Economic Analysis Annals, 2016

This paper aims to address the problem of the appearance of the antipattern of hidden requirement... more This paper aims to address the problem of the appearance of the antipattern of hidden requirements in IT projects for public administration. It discusses the impact of the law of public procurement and describes several negative consequences of hidden requirements (also viewed as technical debt). It then proposes a model for the activities of business analysts in public administration who act according to recent business analysis guidelines. Finally, it presents the results of structured interviews with participants of IT projects for public administration. Empirical studies confirm the appearance of hidden requirements in such projects, and these studies support the proposed solution with the positive opinions of practitioners.

Wytwarzanie sieciowych aplikacji użytkowych z wykorzystaniem notacji UML

Zeszyty Naukowe. Informatyka / Politechnika Śląska, 1999

Cognitive Dimensions questionnaire applied to visual languages evaluation - a case study

PPIG, 2003

In order to achieve more maturity in modelling languages engineering, effective methods of visual... more In order to achieve more maturity in modelling languages engineering, effective methods of visual modelling language evaluation are required. There is growing understanding of human factors’ impact on the quality of results and thus cognitive perspective seems to be a good frame of reference for evaluation. In the paper, a case study of applying Cognitive Dimensions Questionnaire for visual modelling language evaluation is presented. Discussion of cognitive dimensions in context of its proposed use, analysis of the filled in questionnaires and responders’ opinions about the method as well as cross-comparison between set of cognitive dimensions and a set of criteria for visual modelling languages are described. Conclusions suggest need of customisation of the questionnaire with special focus on precision.

A framework for methodologies of visual modeling language evaluation

... Therefore, VMLs can be challenged in the interdisciplinary context of many theories or models... more

Positive Risk of Creativity in Software Projects: an Expected Result, a Threat or an Opportunity?

Positive risk of creativity appears when there is an excess of creativity. This paper aims at exp... more Positive risk of creativity appears when there is an excess of creativity. This paper aims at exploring the concept of positive risk of creativity in software projects. It presents a taxonomy of positive risks as well as case studies of positive risks in diploma software projects. It also attempts to answer the question whether positive risks should be treated as expected results of applying creativity process, or they cause additional threats, or they can be treated as sources of opportunities. It appears that actually all options are possible depending on circumstances and each option requires a different approach to their management.

Visual dimensions of modeling languages in interdisciplinary perspective

Usability of visual modeling languages depends on their visual notations. The visual notations ca... more Usability of visual modeling languages depends on their visual notations. The visual notations can be viewed as a set of visual components which make specific effects on human's eye and brain. This paper describes an interdisciplinary analysis made in order to enhance understanding of visual dimensions. It extracts visual dimensions from the theories of visual perception, data visualization and mental representations, and discusses their implications for visual notation of modeling languages. Additionally, it discusses the application of kansei engineering for integrating parameters of visual dimensions into notations which make desired impressions.

Creativity Risk in Software Projects

DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Jul 1, 2018

Ryzyko kreatywności dotyczy sytuacji, w ktorych nie są osiągane zamierzone cele związane z kreaty... more Ryzyko kreatywności dotyczy sytuacji, w ktorych nie są osiągane zamierzone cele związane z kreatywnością lub wystepują niekorzystne skutki uboczne zastosowania metod kreatywności. W artykule dokonano systematyzacji tych zjawisk z wykorzystaniem wymiarow ukierunkowywania kreatywności i ujeto je w kategoriach zarządzania ryzykiem w projekcie. Wynikiem tych prac jest lista zagrozen i czynnikow ryzyka kreatywności, ktora zostala zweryfikowana i udoskonalona w wyniku studiow przypadku wystepowania ryzyka kreatywności w projektach informatycznych.

Exploration of Creativity Techniques in Software Engineering in Training-Application-Feedback Cycle

Lecture notes in business information processing, 2019

Creativity research has proposed about a hundred and fifty creativity techniques. The question is... more Creativity research has proposed about a hundred and fifty creativity techniques. The question is whether they can be applied in software engineering for creativity training or directing creativity in software projects. This paper aims at answering this question via a quasi-experiment conducted in Training-Application-Feedback cycle in which participants express their opinions about selected creativity techniques after training and an attempt to apply them in software-related context.

2ND Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics

Usability of UML Modeling Tools

Usability aspects of UML modeling tools have impact on efficiency of work and satisfaction of sof... more Usability aspects of UML modeling tools have impact on efficiency of work and satisfaction of software developers. This paper discusses applicability of usability techniques to UML modeling tools evaluation. It describes an empirical study of performance testing of six UML modeling tools and inquiries regarding usability problems with these tools. Then, Goals, Methods, Operators, Selection Rules (GOMS) method is applied for investigation of the effort necessary to create diagrams with these tools.

Wpływ analizy prawnej na wizję Systemu Ochrony Własności Intelektualnej

Ryzyko Kreatywności W Projektach Informatycznych

Ryzyko kreatywności dotyczy sytuacji, w ktorych nie są osiągane zamierzone cele związane z kreaty... more Ryzyko kreatywności dotyczy sytuacji, w ktorych nie są osiągane zamierzone cele związane z kreatywnością lub wystepują niekorzystne skutki uboczne zastosowania metod kreatywności. W artykule dokonano systematyzacji tych zjawisk z wykorzystaniem wymiarow ukierunkowywania kreatywności i ujeto je w kategoriach zarządzania ryzykiem w projekcie. Wynikiem tych prac jest lista zagrozen i czynnikow ryzyka kreatywności, ktora zostala zweryfikowana i udoskonalona w wyniku studiow przypadku wystepowania ryzyka kreatywności w projektach informatycznych.

A model for the activities of business analysts in public administration for the prevention of hidden requirements

Collegium of Economic Analysis Annals, 2016

This paper aims to address the problem of the appearance of the antipattern of hidden requirement... more This paper aims to address the problem of the appearance of the antipattern of hidden requirements in IT projects for public administration. It discusses the impact of the law of public procurement and describes several negative consequences of hidden requirements (also viewed as technical debt). It then proposes a model for the activities of business analysts in public administration who act according to recent business analysis guidelines. Finally, it presents the results of structured interviews with participants of IT projects for public administration. Empirical studies confirm the appearance of hidden requirements in such projects, and these studies support the proposed solution with the positive opinions of practitioners.

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