Concise Guide to Formal Methods (Paperback)

Language: English

Published by Springer International Publishing AG, Cham, 2017

3319640208 / 9783319640204

Series: Book 57 of 99 - Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science

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Paperback. 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 Aristotles syllogistic logic and the logic of the Stoics, through Booles symbolic logic, to Freges 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 Dijkstras calculus of weakest preconditions, Hoares axiomatic semantics of programming languages, and the classical approachof 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title
Concise Guide to Formal Methods (Paperback)
Author
Gerard O'Regan
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG, Cham
Publication year
2017
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new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
3319640208
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9783319640204
Edition
1st Edition
Series
Book 57 of 99: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science

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