Software Abstractions: Logic, Language, And Analysis - Rilegato

Jackson, Daniel

 
9780262101141: Software Abstractions: Logic, Language, And Analysis
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ISBN 10: 0262101149 ISBN 13: 9780262101141
Casa editrice: Mit Pr, 2006

Sinossi

In Software Abstractions Daniel Jackson introduces a new approach to software design that draws on traditional formal methods but exploits automated tools to find flaws as early as possible. This approach--which Jackson calls "lightweight formal methods" or "agile modeling"--takes from formal specification the idea of a precise and expressive notation based on a tiny core of simple and robust concepts but replaces conventional analysis based on theorem proving with a fully automated analysis that gives designers immediate feedback. Jackson has developed Alloy, a language that captures the essence of software abstractions simply and succinctly, using a minimal toolkit of mathematical notions. The designer can use automated analysis not only to correct errors but also to make models that are more precise and elegant. This approach, Jackson says, can rescue designers from "the tarpit of implementation technologies" and return them to thinking deeply about underlying concepts.Software Abstractions introduces the key elements of the approach: a logic, which provides the building blocks of the language; a language, which adds a small amount of syntax to the logic for structuring descriptions; and an analysis, a form of constraint solving that offers both simulation (generating sample states and executions) and checking (finding counterexamples to claimed properties). The book uses Alloy as a vehicle because of its simplicity and tool support, but the book's lessons are mostly language-independent, and could also be applied in the context of other modeling languages.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Daniel Jackson is Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and leads the Software Design Group at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT.

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Editore
Mit Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2006
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0262101149
ISBN 13 
9780262101141
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
350
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9780262528900: Software Abstractions, revised edition: Logic, Language, and Analysis

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0262528908 ISBN 13:  9780262528900
Casa editrice: MIT Press, 2016
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