The systems engineering method proposed in this book, which is based on Abstract State Machines (ASMs), guides the development of software and embedded hardware-software systems seamlessly from requirements capture to actual implementation and documentation. The method bridges the gap between the human understanding and formulation of real-world problems and the deployment of their algorithmic solutions by code-executing machines. Within a single conceptual framework it covers design, verification by reasoning techniques, and validation by simulation and testing. ASMs improve current industrial practice by using accurate high-level modeling and by linking the descriptions at the successive stages of system development in an organic and efficiently maintainable chain of rigorous and coherent system models at stepwise-refined abstraction levels. In several industrial projects the ASM method has proven its superiority compared to the popular UML methodology when designing complex parallel or dynamic systems. This book combines the features of a textbook and a handbook: the reader will find detailed explanations, proofs, and exercises as well as numerous examples and real-world case studies. Researchers will find here the most comprehensive description of ASMs available today and professionals will use it as a "modeling handbook for the working software engineer." As a textbook it supports self-study or it can form the basis of a lecture course. The book is complemented by a CD containing the whole book text, additional course material, solutions to exercises, and additional examples. Even more information can be found on the related website maintained by the authors: http://www.di.unipi.it/AsmBook/

Quelli che s'innamoran di pratica senza scienzia sono come 'l nocchieri ch'entra in navilio sanza timone o bussola, 1 che mai ha certezza dove si vada. - Leonardo da Vinci Ich habe oft bemerkt, dass wir uns durch allzuvieles Symbolisieren 2 die Sprache fu ..r die Wirklichkeit untu ..chtig machen. - Christian Morgenstern This is the place to express our thanks. First of all we thank all those who over the years have actively contributed to shaping the novel software design and analysis method explained in this book. They are too numerous to be mentioned here. They all appear in some way or the other on the following pages, in particular in the bibliographical and historical Chap. 9 which can be read independently of the book. We then thank those who have helped with detailed critical comments on the draft chapters to shape the way our arguments are presented in this book: M. B.. orger (Diron Mu ..nster), I. Craggs (IBMHursley),G. DelCastillo(SiemensMunc .. hen),U. Gl. asser(SimonFraser University, Vancouver,Canada),J. Huggins(Kettering University,Michigan, USA), B. Koblinger (IBM Heidelberg), P. Pa ..ppinghaus (Siemens Munc .. hen), A. Preller (Universit' e de Montpellier, France), M. -L. Potet (INP de Gre- ble, France),W. Reisig (Humboldt-Universit. at zu Berlin, Germany),H. Rust (Universit. at Cottbus, Germany), G. Schellhorn (Universit. at Augsburg, G- many), B. Thalheim (Universit. at Cottbus, Germany) and a dozen student generationsat Universita 'di Pisa. We thankM. Barmet(ETH Zur .. ich)for her solutions of the exercises in Chap. 8. We also thank L.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Seminar on Proof Theory in Computer Science, PTCS 2001, held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in October 2001.The 13 thoroughly revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. Among the topics addressed are higher type recursion, lambda calculus, complexity theory, transfinite induction, categories, induction-recursion, post-Turing analysis, natural deduction, implicit characterization, iterate logic, and Java programming.

Ernest Dowson: Lyric Lives is the first full-length critical study of this canonical writer to appear in English. It challenges the many myths that have surrounded Dowson's life and work for more than a century, contending that, in his distinct theory of muse-fired inspiration; his authentic Catholic confessionalism; his deep love of France, its literary tradition, and its culture; his prolonged battle with tuberculosis; and his final abandonment of creative writing, Dowson is among the most engaged and representative artists of this fascinating era. Far from the moribund dream-lover of legend, Dowson, in fact, led an engrossing and robust existence, while practicing a vigorous, sullen craft; he wrote about the subjects which poets have always written about, with inimitable style and incorrigible élan. Ernest Dowson presents a chronological and comprehensive series of generative new readings of his work, situated in relation to that of his notable contemporaries, as well as the pressing cultural and aesthetic debates of the Victorian fin de siècle. It explores the drastic implications of Dowson's and his era's myopically aesthetical attitude towards life, and reveals precisely how he transformed his own lived experience into art. By reinstating an author of flesh-and-blood at the heart of his slender canon, and by ousting the legendary imposter of our collective, critical imagination, this volume aims to resuscitate Dowson's small but illustrious oeuvre, reclaiming it from likely oblivion.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich BWL - Bank, Borse, Versicherung, Note: 1,0, Hochschule fur Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nurtingen-Geislingen; Standort Nurtingen, 25 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Zu Beginn dieser Bachelor Thesis werden zunachst einige Begriffsdefinitionen erortert. Um eine strikte Trennung des praktischen vom theoretischen Teil zu vermeiden, wird dieser von Beginn an in die Arbeit integriert. Im folgenden Teil werden zunachst die an den Fusionsbemuhungen beteiligten Borsenplatze vorgestellt bevor die Eckdaten zur Fusion erlautert werden. Anschliessend werden sowohl allgemeine als auch spezifische, fur die Borsen zutreffende Fusionsmotive genannt, um darauf aufbauend einige Problemfelder und deren Losungsmoglichkeiten aufzeigen zu konnen. Die Arbeit soll einen groben Uberblick uber die komplexen und vielfaltigen Aufgaben eines Fusionsprozesses geben. Da die Bewertung eines Unternehmens oder die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen einer Ubernahme den Rahmen dieser Bachelor Thesis ubersteigen wurden, bleiben diese unberucksichtigt. Obwohl zwischen Fusionen und Akquisitionen grundsatzlich nach Art der Transaktion unterschieden werden muss, werden aus Grunden der Ubersichtlichkeit, Begriffe wie Unternehmenszusammenschlusse, Ubernahmen, Fusionen und Akquisitionen in dieser Ausarbeitung synonym verwendet. In der Schlussbetrachtung werden die wichtigsten Erkenntnisse noch einmal erfasst und herausgestellt