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- ISBN: 9781439853757 | 1439853754
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 9/22/2011
Software engineering involves an inherently collaborative set of socio-technical activities'¬ ;often referred to as social software engineering. Computer science must be fused with psychology, sociology, and mathematics, all wrapped around the principles of knowledge engineering, to develop an appropriate infrastructure in order to support a software engineering discipline capable of developing 21st century applications. This book examines the new field of software engineering through the spectrum of the social activities that compose it. The author addresses security, legal, and privacy issues in addition to workflow and people issues.