Systems Analysis and Synthesis

Informationen zum Autor Barry Dwyer served as a senior lecturer in computer science at the University of Adelaide, Australia, from 1982 2004, teaching courses on database and information systems, systems analysis, artificial intelligence, and knowledge representation. Prior to that he was a software engineer working in operating systems, database systems, decision-table translators and automated system construction; and a management services officer and senior computer science lecturer at the University of South Australia. Barry began his career as an electronics engineer in the aviation industry, where he designed analogue flight simulator and radar equipment, and co-designed a digital head-up display system. Since retiring from teaching, Barry has written proof of concept software frameworks that led to the development of this book, and has spoken regularly on these and related topics. Klappentext Systems Analysis and Synthesis: Bridging Computer Science and Information Technology presents several new graph-theoretical methods that relate system design to core computer science concepts! and enable correct systems to be synthesized from specifications. Based on material refined in the author's university courses! the book has immediate applicability for working system engineers or recent graduates who understand computer technology! but have the unfamiliar task of applying their knowledge to a real business problem. Starting with a comparison of synthesis and analysis! the book explains the fundamental building blocks of systems--atoms and events--and takes a graph-theoretical approach to database design to encourage a well-designed schema. The author explains how database systems work--useful both when working with a commercial database management system and when hand-crafting data structures--and how events control the way data flows through a system. Later chapters deal with system dynamics and modelling! rule-based systems! user psychology! and project management! to round out readers' ability to understand and solve business problems. ...

Autorentext
Barry Dwyer served as a senior lecturer in computer science at the University of Adelaide, Australia, from 1982 2004, teaching courses on database and information systems, systems analysis, artificial intelligence, and knowledge representation. Prior to that he was a software engineer working in operating systems, database systems, decision-table translators and automated system construction; and a management services officer and senior computer science lecturer at the University of South Australia. Barry began his career as an electronics engineer in the aviation industry, where he designed analogue flight simulator and radar equipment, and co-designed a digital head-up display system. Since retiring from teaching, Barry has written proof of concept software frameworks that led to the development of this book, and has spoken regularly on these and related topics.

Klappentext

Systems Analysis and Synthesis: Bridging Computer Science and Information Technology presents several new graph-theoretical methods that relate system design to core computer science concepts, and enable correct systems to be synthesized from specifications. Based on material refined in the author's university courses, the book has immediate applicability for working system engineers or recent graduates who understand computer technology, but have the unfamiliar task of applying their knowledge to a real business problem. Starting with a comparison of synthesis and analysis, the book explains the fundamental building blocks of systems--atoms and events--and takes a graph-theoretical approach to database design to encourage a well-designed schema. The author explains how database systems work--useful both when working with a commercial database management system and when hand-crafting data structures--and how events control the way data flows through a system. Later chapters deal with system dynamics and modelling, rule-based systems, user psychology, and project management, to round out readers' ability to understand and solve business problems.

Inhalt

1. Systems, Analysis, and Synthesis2. Mathematical Background3. Atoms and Finite State Automata4. Data Structure Analysis5. Kernel Specifications6. Database Technology7. Data Flow Analysis8. Interfaces9. Rules10. System Dynamics11. Project Management

   Appendix:A. Regular Expressions and FSA'sB. NormalizationC. Answers to the Exercises