Alagar / Periyasamy Specification of Software Systems

2. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-85729-277-3
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 644 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Texts in Computer Science

This extensively revised and updated new edition of Specification of Software Systems builds upon the original focus on software specification with added emphasis on the practice of formal methods for specification and verification activities for different types of software systems and at different stages of developing software systems. Topics and features: provides a wide coverage of formal specification techniques and a clear writing style, supported by end-of-chapter bibliographic notes for further reading; presents a logical structure, with sections devoted to specification fundamentals, basics of formalism, logic, set theory and relations, property-oriented specification methods, and model-based specification techniques; contains end-of-chapter exercises and numerous case studies, with potential course outlines suggested in the Preface; covers Object-Z, B-Method, and Calculus of Communicating Systems; offers material that can be taught with tool-supported laboratory projects.

Zielgruppe

Graduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alagar, V.S.

Periyasamy, K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Specification Fundamentals.- The Role of Specification.- Specification Activities.- Specification Qualities.- Abstraction.-Part II: Formalism Fundamentals.- Formal Systems.- Automata.- Extended Finite State Machine.- Classification of Formal Specification Methods.-Part III: Logic.- Propositional Logic.- Predicate Logic.- Temporal Logic.- Part IV: Mathematical Abstractions for Model-based Specifications.- Set Theory and Relations.- Part V: Property-oriented Specifications.- Algebraic Specification.- Larch.- Calculus of Communicating Systems.- Part VI: Model-based Specifications.- Vienna Development Method.- The Z Notation.- The Object-Z Specification Language.- The B-Method.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. V.S. Alagar is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering of Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Dr. K. Periyasamy is a full Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, USA.