Practical Foundations Of Business System Specifications

Author : Haim Kilov,Ken Baclavski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789401727402

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Practical Foundations of Business System Specifications by Haim Kilov,Ken Baclavski Pdf

"In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics, in that they do remedy and cure many defects in the wit and faculties intellectual. For if the wit be too dull, they sharpen it; if too wandering, they fix it; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it. " Roger Bacon (1214?-1294?) "Mathematics-the art and science of effective reasoning. " E. W. Dijkstra, 1976 "A person who had studied at a good mathematical school can do anything. " Ye. Bunimovich, 2000 This is the third book published by Kluwer based on the very successful OOPSLA workshops on behavioral semantics (the first two books were published in 1996 [KH 1996] and 1999 [KRS 1999]). These workshops fostered precise and explicit specifications of business and system semantics, independently of any (possible) realization. Some progress has been made in these areas, both in academia and in industry. At the same time, in too many cases only lip service to elegant specifica tions of semantics has been provided, and as a result the systems we build or buy are all too often not what they are supposed to be. We used to live with that, and quite often users relied on human intermediaries to "sort the things out. " This approach worked perfectly well for a long time.

Author : Ella Roubtsova,Ashley McNeile,Ekkart Kindler,Christian Gerth
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319219127

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Behavior Modeling -- Foundations and Applications by Ella Roubtsova,Ashley McNeile,Ekkart Kindler,Christian Gerth Pdf

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the six International Workshops on Behavior Modelling - Foundations and Applications, BM-FA, which took place annually between 2009 and 2014. The 9 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 58 papers presented at these 6 workshops. The contributions were organized in topical sections named: modelling practices; new ways of behaviour modelling: events in modelling; and new ways of behaviour modelling: protocol modelling.

Author : Kai Sachs,Ilia Petrov,Pablo Guerrero
Publisher : Springer
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642172267

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From Active Data Management to Event-Based Systems and More by Kai Sachs,Ilia Petrov,Pablo Guerrero Pdf

Data management has evolved over the years from being strictly associated with database systems, through active databases, to become a topic that has grown beyond the scope of a single field encompassing a large range of subjects, such as distributed systems, event-driven systems, and peer-to-peer and streaming systems. The present collection of works, which sheds light on various facets of data management, is dedicated to Prof. Alejandro Buchmann on the occasion of his 60th birthday. His scientific path looks back on more than thirty years of successful academic life and high-impact research. With this book we celebrate Prof. Buchmann's vision and achievements.

Author : Phillip A. Laplante
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1441 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781351249263

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Encyclopedia of Software Engineering Three-Volume Set (Print) by Phillip A. Laplante Pdf

Software engineering requires specialized knowledge of a broad spectrum of topics, including the construction of software and the platforms, applications, and environments in which the software operates as well as an understanding of the people who build and use the software. Offering an authoritative perspective, the two volumes of the Encyclopedia of Software Engineering cover the entire multidisciplinary scope of this important field. More than 200 expert contributors and reviewers from industry and academia across 21 countries provide easy-to-read entries that cover software requirements, design, construction, testing, maintenance, configuration management, quality control, and software engineering management tools and methods. Editor Phillip A. Laplante uses the most universally recognized definition of the areas of relevance to software engineering, the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK®), as a template for organizing the material. Also available in an electronic format, this encyclopedia supplies software engineering students, IT professionals, researchers, managers, and scholars with unrivaled coverage of the topics that encompass this ever-changing field. Also Available Online This Taylor & Francis encyclopedia is also available through online subscription, offering a variety of extra benefits for researchers, students, and librarians, including: Citation tracking and alerts Active reference linking Saved searches and marked lists HTML and PDF format options Contact Taylor and Francis for more information or to inquire about subscription options and print/online combination packages. US: (Tel) 1.888.318.2367; (E-mail) [email protected] International: (Tel) +44 (0) 20 7017 6062; (E-mail) [email protected]

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814477086

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Mathematical Frameworks for Component Software by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rivero, Laura C.,Doorn, Jorge Horacio,Ferraggine, Viviana E.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781591407959

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Encyclopedia of Database Technologies and Applications by Rivero, Laura C.,Doorn, Jorge Horacio,Ferraggine, Viviana E. Pdf

"Addresses the evolution of database management, technologies and applications along with the progress and endeavors of new research areas."--P. xiii.

Author : Nachum Dershowitz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540399100

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Verification: Theory and Practice by Nachum Dershowitz Pdf

This festschrift volume constitutes a unique tribute to Zohar Manna on the occasion of his 64th birthday. Like the scientific work of Zohar Manna, the 32 research articles span the entire scope of the logical half of computer science. Also included is a paean to Zohar Manna by the volume editor. The articles presented are devoted to the theory of computing, program semantics, logics of programs, temporal logic, automated deduction, decision procedures, model checking, concurrent systems, reactive systems, hardware and software verification, testing, software engineering, requirements specification, and program synthesis.

Author : James Forrest Courtney,John Digby Haynes,David B. Paradice
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781591403111

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Inquiring Organizations by James Forrest Courtney,John Digby Haynes,David B. Paradice Pdf

Inquiring Organizations: Moving from Knowledge Management to Wisdom assembles into one volume a comprehensive collection of the key current thinking regarding the use of C. West Churchman's Design of Inquiring Systems as a basis for computer-based inquiring systems design and implementation. Inquiring systems are systems that go beyond knowledge management to actively inquire about their environment. While self-adaptive is an appropriate adjective for inquiring systems, they are critically different from self-adapting systems as they have evolved in the fields of computer science or artificial intelligence. Inquiring systems draw on epistemology to guide knowledge creation and organizational learning. As such, we can for the first time ever, begin to entertain the notion of support for "wise" decision-making. Readers of Inquiring Organizations: Moving from Knowledge Management to Wisdom will gain an appreciation for the role that epistemology can play in the design of the next generation of knowledge management systems: systems that focus on supporting wise decision-making processes.

Author : David S. Rosenblum,Gabriele Taentzer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642120299

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Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering by David S. Rosenblum,Gabriele Taentzer Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2010, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in March 2010, as part of ETAPS 2010, the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software. The 25 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. The volume also contains one invited talk. The topics covered are model transformation, software evolution, graph transformation, modeling concepts, verification, program analysis, testing and debugging, and performance modeling and analysis.

Author : Roland C. Backhouse,Jeremy Gibbons
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540201946

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Generic Programming by Roland C. Backhouse,Jeremy Gibbons Pdf

Generic programming attempts to make programming more efficient by making it more general. This book is devoted to a novel form of genericity in programs, based on parameterizing programs by the structure of the data they manipulate. The book presents the following four revised and extended chapters first given as lectures at the Generic Programming Summer School held at the University of Oxford, UK in August 2002: - Generic Haskell: Practice and Theory - Generic Haskell: Applications - Generic Properties of Datatypes - Basic Category Theory for Models of Syntax

Author : Manuel Oriol,Bertrand Meyer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642025716

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Objects, Components, Models and Patterns by Manuel Oriol,Bertrand Meyer Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 47th International Conference on Objects, Components, Models and Patterns, TOOLS EUROPE 2009, held in Zurich, Switzerland, in June/July 2009. TOOLS has played a major role in the spread of object-oriented and component technologies. It has now broadened its scope beyond the original topics of object technology and component-based development to encompass all modern, practical approaches to software development. At the same time, TOOLS has kept its traditional spirit of technical excellence, its acclaimed focus on practicality, its well-proven combination of theory and applications, and its reliance on the best experts from academia and industry. The 17 regular papers and two short papers presented in this book, together with two invited papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. The topics covered in this volume are reflection and aspects, models, theory, components, monitoring, and systems generation.

Author : Dines Bjørner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030734848

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Domain Science and Engineering by Dines Bjørner Pdf

In this book the author explains domain engineering and the underlying science, and he then shows how we can derive requirements prescriptions for computing systems from domain descriptions. A further motivation is to present domain descriptions, requirements prescriptions, and software design specifications as mathematical quantities. The author's maxim is that before software can be designed we must understand its requirements, and before requirements can be prescribed we must analyse and describe the domain for which the software is intended. He does this by focusing on what it takes to analyse and describe domains. By a domain we understand a rationally describable discrete dynamics segment of human activity, of natural and man-made artefacts, examples include road, rail and air transport, container terminal ports, manufacturing, trade, healthcare, and urban planning. The book addresses issues of seemingly large systems, not small algorithms, and it emphasizes descriptions as formal, mathematical quantities. This is the first thorough monograph treatment of the new software engineering phase of software development, one that precedes requirements engineering. It emphasizes a methodological approach by treating, in depth, analysis and description principles, techniques and tools. It does this by basing its domain modeling on fundamental philosophical principles, a view that is new for a computer science monograph. The book will be of value to computer scientists engaged with formal specifications of software. The author reveals this as a field of interesting problems, most chapters include pointers to further study and exercises drawn from practical engineering and science challenges. The text is supported by a primer to the formal specification language RSL and extensive indexes.

Author : Arne Haber
Publisher : Shaker Verlag GmbH
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783844046977

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MontiArc - Architectural Modeling and Simulation of Interactive Distributed Systems by Arne Haber Pdf

Formal ADLs offer great potential to analyse the architecture of a system, predict the overall performance by using simulations, and allow to automatically generate parts of the implementation. Nevertheless, ADLs are rather not used in industrial practice since several problems hinder to exploit their potential to the full extend. This thesis elaborates the design of an ADL that copes with these impediments of ADLs in practice. Therefore, the design of a lightweight ADL is derived which also provides well defined extension points to be adapted to a certain domain or development process. Furthermore, it is investigated how architectural modeling can be enriched with agile development methods to support incremental modeling and the validation of system architectures. Therefore, a set detailed of requirements for architectural modeling and the simulation of system architectures is defined and MontiArc, a concrete ADL to model logical architectures of distributed, interactive systems, is derived. The language is based on the mathematical FOCUS [BS01] framework, which allows to simulate modeled systems in an event-based style. Code generators and a simulation framework provide means to continuously refine and test architectural models. To add new features or adapt the language to a new domain, a corresponding language extension method is presented to extend the syntax, language processing tools, and code generators of the ADL. A lightweight model library concept is presented which allows to develop and reuse component models and their implementation in a controlled and transparent way. The developed language, the simulator, and the language extension techniques have been examined in several case studies which either used or extended MontiArc.

Author : Martin Wirsing,Alexander Knapp,Simonetta Balsamo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540246268

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Radical Innovations of Software and Systems Engineering in the Future by Martin Wirsing,Alexander Knapp,Simonetta Balsamo Pdf

This volume contains the papers from the workshop “Radical Innovations of Software and Systems Engineering in the Future.” This workshop was the ninth in the series of Monterey Software Engineering workshops for formulating and advancing software engineering models and techniques, with the fundamental theme of increasing the practical impact of formal methods. During the last decade object orientation was the driving factor for new system solutions in many areas ranging from e-commerce to embedded systems. New modeling languages such as UML and new programming languages such as Java and CASE tools have considerably in?uenced the system development techniques of today and will remain key techniques for the near future. However, actual practice shows many de?ciencies of these new approaches: – there is no proof and no evidence that software productivity has increased with the new methods; – UML has no clean scienti?c foundations, which inhibits the construction of powerful analysis and development tools; – support for mobile distributed system development is missing; – formanyapplications,object-orienteddesignisnotsuitedtoproducingclean well-structured code, as many applications show.

Author : Cliff Jones,Ji Wang,Naijun Zhan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030014612

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Symposium on Real-Time and Hybrid Systems by Cliff Jones,Ji Wang,Naijun Zhan Pdf

This volume is published in honor of Professor Chaochen Zhou’s 80th birthday. The Festschrift contains 13 refereed papers by leading researchers who were among the participants of the celebratory conference in Changsha, China that took place in October 2017. The papers cover a broad spectrum of subjects related to Formal Methods for the development of computer systems. Topics include Probabilistic Programming, Concurrency, Quantum Computing, Domain Engineering, Real-time and Hybrid Systems, and Cloud Computing. Chaochen Zhou is internationally recognized for his own contributions and for the wide influence that he has had through his appointments in Oxford (UK) where he collaborated with Professor Tony Hoare, Lyngby (Denmark) where he worked with Professor Dines Bjørner, UNU-IIST (Macau) where he moved from being Principal Research Fellow to his appointed as Director of the Institute, as well as in Beijing. His book on the Duration Calculus (joint with Michael Hansen) made a seminal contribution to specifying and reasoning about real-time systems. Chaochen Zhou’s contributions have been marked by his election as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.