This volume presents twelve case studies that use RAISE - Rigorous Approach to Industrial Software Engineering - to construct, analyse, develop and apply formal specifications. The case studies cover a wide range of application areas including government finance, case-based reasoning, multi-language text processing, object-oriented design patterns, component-based software design and natural resource management. By illustrating the variety of uses of formal specifications, the case studies also raise questions about the creation, purpose and scope of formal models before they are built. Additional resources and complete specifications for all of the case studies and the RAISE tools used to process them, are available on the World Wide Web. This book will be of particular interest to software engineers, especially those responsible for the initial stages of requirements engineering and software architecture and design. It will also be of interest to academics and students on advanced formal methods courses.
Foreword
Chapter 1 : Thematic Introduction
Chapter 2 : Introduction to RAISE
Chapter 3 : A University Library Management System
Chapter 4 : Development of a Distributed Telephone Switch
Chapter 5 : Developing a National Financial Information System
Chapter 6 : Multi-Lingual Document Processing
Chapter 7 : Formalising Production Processes
Chapter 8 : Model-Based Travel Planning
Chapter 9 : Proving Safety of Authentication Protocols
Chapter 10 : Formalisation of Realm-Based Spatial Data Types
Chapter 11 : Object-Oriented Design Patterns
Chapter 12 : Automated Result Verification With AWK
Chapter 13 : Fail-Stop Components by Pattern Matching
Chapter 14 : An Infrastructure for Software Reuse
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