| Concise Guide to Formal Methods: Theory, Fundamentals and Industry Applications 2017 Edition Contributor(s): O'Regan, Gerard (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319640208 ISBN-13: 9783319640204 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $66.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Logic - Computers | Software Development & Engineering - General - Computers | Hardware - General |
| Dewey: 004.015 |
| Series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 6.53" W x 9.29" (1.23 lbs) 322 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This invaluable textbook/reference provides an easy-to-read guide to the fundamentals of formal methods, highlighting the rich applications of formal methods across a diverse range of areas of computing.Topics and features: introduces the key concepts in software engineering, software reliability and dependability, formal methods, and discrete mathematics; presents a short history of logic, from Aristotle's syllogistic logic and the logic of the Stoics, through Boole's symbolic logic, to Frege's work on predicate logic; covers propositional and predicate logic, as well as more advanced topics such as fuzzy logic, temporal logic, intuitionistic logic, undefined values, and the applications of logic to AI; examines the Z specification language, the Vienna Development Method (VDM) and Irish School of VDM, and the unified modelling language (UML); discusses Dijkstra's calculus of weakest preconditions, Hoare's axiomatic semantics of programming languages, and the classical approach of Parnas and his tabular expressions; provides coverage of automata theory, probability and statistics, model checking, and the nature of proof and theorem proving; reviews a selection of tools available to support the formal methodist, and considers the transfer of formal methods to industry; includes review questions and highlights key topics in every chapter, and supplies a helpful glossary at the end of the book. This stimulating guide provides a broad and accessible overview of formal methods for students of computer science and mathematics curious as to how formal methods are applied to the field of computing. |