Calculational System Design

Calculational System Design
Author: M. Broy
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 524
Release: 1999
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9789051994599

Computer Science has made considerable progress in making complex software and hardware systems more reliable. This is a result of practical experience and continuous process improvement on one side and of a better and deeper understanding of the fundamentals of software and system engineering on the other side. Recent encouraging trends are a strong integration of formal techniques with practical industrial development methods and more advanced support tools such as modelling, verification, and model-checking support systems. This active area of research has a relatively short term horizon with respect to transferring technology to industrial applications. This volume is focusing on techniques and the scientific basis for calculation-based development of software and hardware systems as a foundation for advanced methods and tools for software and system engineering. This includes topics of specification, description, methodology, refinement, verification, and implementation. The volume presents new trends and insights reflecting the current state of the art in the scientific foundation of these techniques, since such a foundation is an indispensable prerequisite for advanced development methods.

SOFSEM '98: Theory and Practice of Informatics

SOFSEM '98: Theory and Practice of Informatics
Author: Branislav Rovan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2003-06-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540494774

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th Seminar on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics, SOFSEM'98, held in Jasna, Slovakia, in November 1998. The volume presents 19 invited survey articles by internationally well-known authorities together with 18 revised full research papers carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The areas covered include history of models of computation, algorithms, formal methods, practical aspects of software engineering, database systems, parallel and distributed systems, electronic commerce, and electronic documents and digital libraries.

Fundamentals of Dependable Computing for Software Engineers

Fundamentals of Dependable Computing for Software Engineers
Author: John Knight
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2012-01-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1439862567

Fundamentals of Dependable Computing for Software Engineers presents the essential elements of computer system dependability. The book describes a comprehensive dependability-engineering process and explains the roles of software and software engineers in computer system dependability. Readers will learn:Why dependability mattersWhat it means for a

This Program is Brought to You By...

This Program is Brought to You By...
Author: Joshua A. Braun
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0300197500

Journalism, television, cable, and online media are all evolving rapidly. At the nexus of these volatile industries is a growing group of individuals and firms whose job it is to develop and maintain online distribution channels for television news programming. Their work, and the tensions surrounding it, provides a fulcrum from which to pry analytically at some of the largest shifts within our media landscape. Based on fieldwork and interviews with different teams and organizations within MSNBC, this multi-disciplinary work is unique in its focus on distribution, which is rapidly becoming as central as production, to media work.

Regarding the Mind, Naturally

Regarding the Mind, Naturally
Author: Marcin Milkowski
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2014-08-11
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1443865680

Naturalism is currently the most vibrantly developing approach to philosophy, with naturalised methodologies being applied across all the philosophical disciplines. One of the areas naturalism has been focussing upon is the mind, traditionally viewed as a topic hard to reconcile with the naturalistic worldview. A number of questions have been pursued in this context. What is the place of the mind in the world? How should we study the mind as a natural phenomenon? What is the significance of cognitive science research for philosophical debates? In this book, philosophical questions about the mind are asked in the context of recent developments in cognitive science, evolutionary theory, psychology, and the project of naturalisation. Much of the focus is upon what we have learned by studying natural mental mechanisms as well as designing artificial ones. In the case of natural mental mechanisms, this includes consideration of such issues as the significance of deficits in these mechanisms for psychiatry. The significance of the evolutionary context for mental mechanisms as well as questions regarding rationality and wisdom is also explored. Mechanistic and functional models of the mind are used to throw new light on discussions regarding issues of explanation, reduction and the realisation of mental phenomena. Finally, naturalistic approaches are used to look anew at such traditional philosophical issues as the correspondence of mind to world and presuppositions of scientific research.

Requirements Engineering: Laying a Firm Foundation

Requirements Engineering: Laying a Firm Foundation
Author: James A. Crowder
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2022-01-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030910776

This textbook lays the foundations for System-of-Systems Requirements Engineering and Requirements Management practices, principles, technique, and processes. It provides a comprehensive treatment of requirements engineering, an integral part of Multidisciplinary Systems Engineering. The book takes the student/reader though the entire process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing, and managing requirements, and then goes on the describe controlling and communicating requirement change throughout the system development lifecycle. The authors discuss the role of requirements management in support of other requirements engineering processes; describe the principal requirements engineering activities and their relationships; introduces techniques for requirements elicitation and analysis and describes requirements validation and the role of requirements reviews; and discusses the role of requirements management in support of other requirements engineering processes. A full suite of classroom material is provided including exercises, assignments, and PowerPoint slides.

Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering

Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
Author: José Fiadeiro
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2008-04-03
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540787437

This proceedings volume covers requirements and architectures, models and model transformations, conceptual models and UML, service engineering and adaptable services, verification and testing, and objects and components.