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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.
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"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)
- Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 3-42
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Numbers
Pages 45-54
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Sets
Pages 55-61
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Cartesians
Pages 63-70
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Types
Pages 71-85
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Software Engineering 1
- Book Subtitle
- Abstraction and Modelling
- Authors
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- Dines Bjørner
- Series Title
- Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series
- Copyright
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-540-31288-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/3-540-31288-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-540-21149-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-05939-1
- Series ISSN
- 1862-4499
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XL, 714
- Number of Illustrations
- 38 b/w illustrations
- Topics