Overview
- Three-volume set brings reader from basic principles to very advanced principles and techniques
- Suitable for undergraduate and graduate students in software engineering
- Emphasis on presenting application domains both informally and formally
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Request lecturer material: sn.pub/lecturer-material
Part of the book series: Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series (TTCS)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Opening
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Discrete Mathematics
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About this book
The art, craft, discipline, logic, practice, and science of developing large-scale software products needs a believable, professional base. The textbooks in this three-volume set combine informal, engineeringly sound practice with the rigour of formal, mathematics-based approaches.
Volume 1 covers the basic principles and techniques of formal methods abstraction and modelling. First this book provides a sound, but simple basis of insight into discrete mathematics: numbers, sets, Cartesians, types, functions, the Lambda Calculus, algebras, and mathematical logic. Then it trains its readers in basic property- and model-oriented specification principles and techniques. The model-oriented concepts that are common to such specification languages as B, VDM-SL, and Z are explained here using the RAISE specification language (RSL). This book then covers the basic principles of applicative (functional), imperative, and concurrent (parallel) specification programming. Finally, the volume contains a comprehensive glossary of software engineering, and extensive indexes and references.
These volumes are suitable for self-study by practicing software engineers and for use in university undergraduate and graduate courses on software engineering. Lecturers will be supported with a comprehensive guide to designing modules based on the textbooks, with solutions to many of the exercises presented, and with a complete set of lecture slides.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"The book under review is the first one from a series of three volumes that provides a compelling framework for a more comprehensive understanding of both formal and practical concerns of software engineering. The major feature distinguishing these textbooks from other current ones … is the natural manner in which the formal techniques smoothly glide from software design towards the requirements prescription phase and beyond to domain description. … By its consistency and rigor, the book is, undoubtedly, remarkably useful to professional software developers." (Tudor Balanescu, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1095 (21), 2006)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Software Engineering 1
Book Subtitle: Abstraction and Modelling
Authors: Dines Bjørner
Series Title: Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31288-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-21149-5Published: 19 December 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-05939-1Published: 12 February 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-31288-8Published: 01 June 2007
Series ISSN: 1862-4499
Series E-ISSN: 1862-4502
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XL, 714
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations
Topics: Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Programming Techniques, Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters, Logics and Meanings of Programs