Methodologies for computer system design: Proceedings for the IFIP WG 10.1 Working Conference on Methodologies for Computer System Design, Lille, France, 15-17 September, 1983 - Hardcover

Wolfgang K. & Bruce D. Shriver Eds. Giloi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0444876871 ISBN 13: 9780444876874

Publisher: North-Holland, 1985

Synopsis

"Methodologies for Computer System Design" It is important, before reading these proceedings to understand our basic goal for the meeting. A system can be viewed as an assemblage of entities related by some type of regular interaction or interdependence. A method is basically a way of doing something; methods are often thought of as orderly procedures for teaching, investigating, designing, or accomplishing something. A methodology is a system of methods. Thus, a methodology for computer system design is a system of methods that can be used to design computer systems. There may obviously be a number of contending methodologies for this process, each to be evaluated on its completeness, cohesiveness, formal ism, and other important attributes. The goal of the working conference was to make both an assessment of and an advancement in our quest for such integrated sets of designing methods. If computer systems were simple, one-level entities, then the task that we set out for ourselves would have been straightforward. Contemporary computer systems are, however, as we only know too well, relatively complex, multi-leveled entities, and they are growing more complex as our application environments become more sophisticated. It should come as no surprise that we currently know much more about specific methods employed in the design process at a particular level, e.g. the instruction set level, than we know about an integrated set of methods allowing a designer to span several levels. These proceedings reflect the state of affairs that we currently are method rather than methodology oriented. The list of topics for which papers were solicited in the initial planning document for the workshop contained key areas in which our efforts must be directed in the years ahead if we are to evolve effective methodologies for computer system design. This list bears repeating here for those who were not able to attend the meeting or have not seen the list.

Edition details

• Publisher: North-Holland
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0444876871
• ISBN 13: 9780444876874
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 343