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Systems Analysis and Synthesis
Bridging Computer Science and Information Technology
This definitive resource explains the fundamentals of database systems, introducing several new graph-theoretical methods to foster good database design schema including chapters on system dynamics and modeling, rule-based systems, user psychology, and project management
Barry Dwyer (Author)
9780128053041
Paperback / softback, published 17 February 2016
512 pages
23.4 x 19 x 3.2 cm, 1.06 kg
"This book brings together three ingredients: discussion of software engineering practices and principles, beautifully clear descriptions of essential mathematical techniques, and direct application to compelling examples and case studies. If you are a practitioner, a teacher, or a student of software engineering, you will benefit greatly from reading and using this outstanding book." --Michael Jackson, The Open University
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.
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
Subject Areas: Computer programming / software development [UM], Applied mathematics [PBW]
