Software Engineering 2: Specification of Systems and Languages (Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series) - Hardcover

Bjørner, Dines

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540211500 ISBN 13: 9783540211501

Publisher: Springer, 2006

Synopsis

The art, craft, discipline, logic, practice and science of developing large-scale software products needs a professional base. The textbooks in this three-volume set combine informal, engineeringly sound approaches with the rigor of formal, mathematics-based approaches.

This volume covers the basic principles and techniques of specifying systems and languages. It deals with modelling the semiotics (pragmatics, semantics and syntax of systems and languages), modelling spatial and simple temporal phenomena, and such specialized topics as modularity (incl. UML class diagrams), Petri nets, live sequence charts, statecharts, and temporal logics, including the duration calculus. Finally, the book presents techniques for interpreter and compiler development of functional, imperative, modular and parallel programming languages.

This book is targeted at late undergraduate to early graduate university students, and researchers of programming methodologies. Vol. 1of this series is a prerequisite text.

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About the Author

MSc.EE, 1962, PhD.CS 1969;IBM 1962-1975 (R&D: Sweden, California USA, Switzerland, Austria);Prof. Techn.Univ. of Denmark 1976--...;Guest Profs.: Univ. of California at Berkeley, Kiel Univ., Natl.Univ. of Singapore; Founder & Scientific Director: Dansk Datamatik Center (19791989); UN Director, UN Univ. Intl. Inst. f. Softw.Techn., Macau (1991-1997);Co-founder of (VDM now) Formal Methods Europe, 1987-...;Member of Academia Europaea;Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (AB);The Ths.Masaryk Gold Medal, Masaryk Univ., Brno, Czech Republic;The John von Neumann Medal, Hungarian Computer (JvN) Society;Knight of the Danish Flag

Review

From the reviews:

"The present volume is the second one of a trilogy on formal development of large scale systems. ... Each topic is presented by means of many examples ... . The end of each chapter includes several exercises that demonstrate the topics in a more realistic setting. The quite large spectrum of modelling and specification tools ... provide the reader with a comprehensive understanding ... . the book appeals to researchers and to practitioners involved in language specification and modelling of real time and concurrent systems." (Tudor Balanescu, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1095 (21), 2006)

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540211500
• ISBN 13: 9783540211501
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 804