High-Integrity System Specification and Design (Formal Approaches to Computing and Information Technology (FACIT)) - Softcover

Bowen, Jonathan P.; Hinchey, Michael G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3540762264 ISBN 13: 9783540762263

Publisher: Springer, 1999

Synopsis

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.

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Product Description

High-integrity System Specification and Design This guide to system specification and design methods helps software engineers understand and develop high-integrity systems, with emphasis on structured and formal methods, method integration, concurrency and safety-critical systems.

Synopsis

This volume provides the reader with an introduction to system specification and design methods, with particular emphasis on structured and formal methods, method integration, concurrency and safety critical systems. It contains new material by Michael Hinchey and Jonathan Bowen, along with reprints of articles on high-integrity systems. Among these articles are contributions from Leslie Lamport, Nancy Leveson, and C.A.R. Hoare. The text provides details of specification and design approaches for this type of system, an overview of the development process, and evidence of how various classes of high integrity systems may be approached and developed successfully.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540762264
• ISBN 13: 9783540762263
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 720