Title
Informaticology: combining Computer Science, Data Science, and Fiction Science
Abstract
Motivated by an intention to remedy current complications with Dutch terminology concerning informatics, the term informaticology is positioned to denote an academic counterpart of informatics where informatics is conceived of as a container for a coherent family of practical disciplines ranging from computer engineering and software engineering to network technology, data center management, information technology, and information management in a broad sense. Informaticology escapes from the limitations of instrumental objectives and the perspective of usage that both restrict the scope of informatics. That is achieved by including fiction science in informaticology and by ranking fiction science on equal terms with computer science and data science, and framing (the study of) game design, evelopment, assessment and distribution, ranging from serious gaming to entertainment gaming, as a chapter of fiction science. A suggestion for the scope of fiction science is specified in some detail. In order to illustrate the coherence of informaticology thus conceived, a potential application of fiction to the ontology of instruction sequences and to software quality assessment is sketched, thereby highlighting a possible role of fiction (science) within informaticology but outside gaming.
Year
Venue
Field
2012
CoRR
Data science,Ontology,Informatics,Information management,Terminology,Materials science in science fiction,Computer science,Information science,Engineering informatics,Information and Computer Science
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1210.6636
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
7
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jan A. Bergstra11946240.42