Domain Science and Engineering A Foundation for Software Development

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 speci...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bjørner, Dines
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2021, 2021
Edition:1st ed. 2021
Series:Monographs in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 03554nmm a2200313 u 4500
001 EB002006108
003 EBX01000000000000001169008
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 211203 ||| eng
020 |a 9783030734848 
100 1 |a Bjørner, Dines 
245 0 0 |a Domain Science and Engineering  |h Elektronische Ressource  |b A Foundation for Software Development  |c by Dines Bjørner 
250 |a 1st ed. 2021 
260 |a Cham  |b Springer International Publishing  |c 2021, 2021 
300 |a XVIII, 401 p. 44 illus., 19 illus. in color  |b online resource 
505 0 |a 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 
653 |a Computer Science Logic and Foundations of Programming 
653 |a Software engineering 
653 |a Computer science 
653 |a Software Engineering 
653 |a Theory of Computation 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b Springer  |a Springer eBooks 2005- 
490 0 |a Monographs in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series 
028 5 0 |a 10.1007/978-3-030-73484-8 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73484-8?nosfx=y  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 004.0151 
520 |a 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