Notations for Software Design aims to explain formal specification and design to practitioners in software development, and to set out the ingredients of a sound software design process.
It examines COLD-1, which is currently being implemented by Philips in many of its business centres. The fact that it is a wide-spectrum language which supports many styles of specification makes it an excellent basis for the volume. It also examines some widely-used informal techniques, such as Venn diagrams and Petri nets, thus creating a strong link between current and future practice. Rather...

Demonstrates that the concept of an instruction sequence offers a useful viewpoint on issues relating to diverse subjects in computer science. This title investigates selected issues relating to well-known subjects from the theory of computation and the area of computer architecture in terms of a common model of computation.