Domain science and engineering : a foundation for software development / Dines Bjørner.
Bjørner, D. (Dines), 1937-
2021
QA76.76.D47
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Title Domain science and engineering : a foundation for software development / Dines Bjørner.
Author Bjørner, D. (Dines), 1937-
ISBN 9783030734848 (electronic bk.)
3030734846 (electronic bk.)
3030734838 (print)
9783030734831 (print)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73484-8
Publication Details Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (403 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-73484-8 doi
Call Number QA76.76.D47
Dewey Decimal Classification 005.1
Summary In this book the author explains domain engineering and the underlying science, and he then shows how we can derive requirements prescriptions for computing systems from domain descriptions. A further motivation is to present domain descriptions, requirements prescriptions, and software design specifications as mathematical quantities. The author's maxim is that before software can be designed we must understand its requirements, and before requirements can be prescribed we must analyse and describe the domain for which the software is intended. He does this by focusing on what it takes to analyse and describe domains. By a domain we understand a rationally describable discrete dynamics segment of human activity, of natural and man-made artefacts, examples include road, rail and air transport, container terminal ports, manufacturing, trade, healthcare, and urban planning. The book addresses issues of seemingly large systems, not small algorithms, and it emphasizes descriptions as formal, mathematical quantities. This is the first thorough monograph treatment of the new software engineering phase of software development, one that precedes requirements engineering. It emphasizes a methodological approach by treating, in depth, analysis and description principles, techniques and tools. It does this by basing its domain modeling on fundamental philosophical principles, a view that is new for a computer science monograph. The book will be of value to computer scientists engaged with formal specifications of software. The author reveals this as a field of interesting problems, most chapters include pointers to further study and exercises drawn from practical engineering and science challenges. The text is supported by a primer to the formal specification language RSL and extensive indexes.
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Series Monographs in theoretical computer science.
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Part I, Setting the Scope
Concepts
Philosophy
Space, Time and Matter
Logic and Mathematics
Part II, Domains
Domains: A Taxonomy: External Qualities
Domains: An Ontology: Internal Qualities
Transcendental Deduction
Domains: A Dynamics Ontology: Perdurants
Domain Facets
Part III, Requirements
Requirements
Part IV, Closing
Demos, Simulators, Monitors and Controllers
Winding Up
References
Appendix A: Pipelines Domain: Endurants
Appendix B: Mereology, A Model
Appendix C: Four Languages
Appendix D: An RSL Primer
Appendix E: Indexes
List of Figures.

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