The final installment in this three-volume set is based on this maxim: "Before software can be designed its requirements must be well understood, and before the requirements can be expressed properly the domain of the application must be well understood." The book covers the process from the development of domain descriptions, through the derivation of requirements prescriptions from domain models, to the refinement of requirements into software architectures and component design.
From the reviews:
"The presentation is focused on the fundamental ideas of domain engineering, requirements engineering and computer system engineering. ... The rigorous treatment and the author’s original style of viewing the software engineering approaches are important, outstanding features ... . is of special interest for both software engineering theorists and practitioners ... . The style is very concise, but at the same time very friendly. ... Undoubtedly, readers coming from a large variety of fields of interest will appreciate the novelty and usefulness ... ." (Tudor Balanescu, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1095 (21), 2006)