This is the introductory chapter of the book Co-producing research: A community development approach. It introduces the co-editors and explains the genesis of the book, based on the learning from a complex community-university research project, Imagine – connecting communities through research. It outlines a community development approach to the co-production of research, described as: research undertaken collaboratively by several parties that values multiple perspectives and voices; contributes to creating and developing communities of place, interest and identity; builds collective capacity for action; and works towards social change. It offers an overview of the chapters in the book and argues for an interdisciplinary collaborative approach.
ESML
(Extended Systems Modeling Language) is a new system modeling language based on the Ward-Mellor and Boeing structured methods techniques, both of which have proposed certain extensions of the DeMarco data flow diagram notation to capture control and timing information. The combined notation has a broad range of mechanisms for describing both combinatorial and sequential control logic.
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