Changing the Approach to Problem Research in Software Engineering

Changing the Approach to Problem Research in Software Engineering

They say that if a problem is not solved, then you should change your perspective on the problem (view of the problem, approach to solving it). That's what I did. I changed my perspective on the process that occurs in a computer when it works according to a certain program. I began to consider this process in a broader context - a person cognizes (or changes) the world around him. Thanks to this, the understanding of the process changed.

 

Phenomenon	Traditional view	A Changed View
Process in a computer.	Information processing.	Generation (production) of knowledge – specific, applied information.
The smallest portion (atom) of processed information.	Data in digital, text or other form.	Element of knowledge. Construction “Subject is a predicate”. Concept from epistemology.
A program in text form.	Connection (concatenation) of operators of algorithmic language: imperative operator, conditional operator, cycle operator.	Connection of procedures (operators) decomposition, deduction, induction, composition etc.
Algorithm (structure) of a program.	Order of information processing.	Scheme (order) of generation (production) of knowledge.

 The change in approach allowed to construct universal schemes, which are prototypes of universal algorithms. The universal scheme is called a decomposition scheme. The decomposition scheme is the basic concept of the general theory of applied algorithms.

 Valery Kolesnyk

07.08.2025