Overview
- Extensively revised and updated, with a considerable amount of new content included to cater to the growing needs of students and researchers
- Provides a wide coverage of formal specification techniques and a clear writing style, supported by end-of-chapter bibliographic notes for further reading
- Contains end-of-chapter exercises and numerous case studies, with potential course outlines suggested in the preface
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Texts in Computer Science (TCS)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Specification Fundamentals
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Front Matter
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Formalism Fundamentals
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Logic
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Mathematical Abstractions for Model-Based Specifications
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Property-Oriented Specifications
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About this book
Reviews
From the reviews of the second edition:
“It covers a lot of material, and various subsets of the book may be used – as proposed by the authors – for different course offerings, from undergraduate to advanced graduate levels, as well as a reference for practitioners … . Bibliographical notes (usually very good) and exercises are included at the end of each chapter. … Summing up, this is a good and useful book on a very important topic … .” (Haim Kilov, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1243, 2012)
“This software engineering book introduces software specifications. It presents basic mathematics typically used in formal methods and describes various existing formal specification languages and methods. It also demonstrates how to write specifications using examples taken from real-life software systems. … Each chapter has exercises, bibliographic notes, and a list of references. … Courses that cover software specifications can use either specific chapters or the complete text. The book can also serve as a reference on software specifications.” (Maulik A. Dave, ACM Computing Reviews, February, 2012)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Specification of Software Systems
Authors: V.S. Alagar, K. Periyasamy
Series Title: Texts in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-277-3
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-85729-276-6Published: 28 March 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-2644-7Published: 21 April 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-0-85729-277-3Published: 19 March 2011
Series ISSN: 1868-0941
Series E-ISSN: 1868-095X
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXVI, 646
Topics: Software Engineering, Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters, Logics and Meanings of Programs