High-Integrity System Specification and Design

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Specification and Design

   • Frederick P. Brooks Jr., David Harel

   Pages 1-51

3. Structured Methods

   • Ken Orr, Chris Gane, Edward Yourdon, Peter P. Chen, Larry L. Constantine, John R. Cameron

   Pages 53-125

4. Formal Methods

   • Anthony Hall, Jonathan P. Bowen, Michael G. Hinchey, Jeannette M. Wing, C. A. R. Hoare

   Pages 127-230

5. Object-Orientation

   • Grady Booch, Robert G. Fichman, Chris F. Kemerer

   Pages 231-294

6. Concurrent and Distributed Systems

   • C. A. R. Hoare, Leslie Lamport

   Pages 295-358

7. Real-Time and Safety-Critical Systems

   • Jonathan Ostroff, Susan Gerhart, Dan Craigen, Ted Ralston, Nancy G. Leveson, Jonathan Bowen et al.

   Pages 359-528

8. Integrating Methods

   • Lesley Semmens, Robert France, Tom Docker

   Pages 529-555

9. Implementation

   • I. J. Hayes, C. B. Jones, Norbert E. Fuchs

   Pages 557-607

10. CASE

    • Elliot J. Chikofsky, Burt L. Rubenstein, David Harel

    Pages 609-657

11. Back Matter

    Pages 659-701

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Errata, detected in Taylor's Logarithms. London: 4to, 1792. [sic] 14.18.3 6 Kk Co-sine of 3398 3298 - Nautical Almanac (1832) In the list of ERRATA detected in Taylor's Logarithms, for cos. 4° 18'3", read cos. 14° 18'2". - Nautical Almanac (1833) ERRATUM ofthe ERRATUM ofthe ERRATA of TAYLOR'S Logarithms. For cos. 4° 18'3", read cos. 14° 18' 3". - Nautical Almanac (1836) In the 1820s, an Englishman named Charles Babbage designed and partly built a calculating machine originally intended for use in deriving and printing logarithmic and other tables used in the shipping industry. At that time, such tables were often inaccurate, copied carelessly, and had been instrumental in causing a number of maritime disasters. Babbage's machine, called a 'Difference Engine' because it performed its cal­ culations using the principle of partial differences, was intended to substantially reduce the number of errors made by humans calculating the tables. Babbage had also designed (but never built) a forerunner of the modern printer, which would also reduce the number of errors admitted during the transcription of the results. Nowadays, a system implemented to perform the function of Babbage's engine would be classed as safety-critical. That is, the failure of the system to produce correct results could result in the loss of human life, mass destruction of property (in the form of ships and cargo) as well as financial losses and loss of competitive advantage for the shipping firm.

• communication
• concurrency
• design
• development
• distributed systems
• formal methods
• formal specification
• language
• operating system
• safety-critical system
• simulation
• software engineering
• system
• system development
• system specification

• Department of Computer Science, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, UK

  Jonathan P. Bowen

• Department of Computer Science, College of Information Science and Technology, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Omaha, USA

  Michael G. Hinchey

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