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Object-Oriented Behavioral Specifications encourages builders of
complex information systems to accelerate their move to using the
approach of a scientific discipline in analysis rather than the
approach of a craft. The focus is on understanding customers' needs
and on precise specification of understanding gained through
analysis. Specifications must bridge any gaps in understanding
about business rules among customers, Subject Matter Experts, and
`computer people', must inform decisions about reuse of software
and systems, and must enable review of semantics over time.
Specifications need to describe semantics rather than syntax, and
to do that in an abstract and precise manner, in order to create
software systems that satisfy business rules. The papers in this
book show various ways of designing elegant and clear
specifications which are reusable, lead to savings of intellectual
effort, time, and money, and which contribute to the reliability of
software and systems. Object-Oriented Behavioral Specifications
offers a fresh treatment of the object-oriented paradigm by
examining the limitations of traditional OO methodologies and by
describing the significance of competing trends in OO modeling. The
book builds on four years of successful OOPSLA workshops
(1991-1995) on behavior semantics. This book deals with precise
specifications of `what' is accomplished by the business and `what'
is to be done by a system. The book includes descriptions of
successful use of abstract and precise specification in industry.
It draws on the experience of experts from industrial and academic
settings and benefits from international participation. Collective
behavior, neglected in some treatment of the OO paradigm, is
addressed explicitly in this book. The book does not take `reuse'
of specifications or software for granted, but furnishes a
foundation for taking as rigorous an approach to reuse decisions as
to precise specifications in original developments.
Object-Oriented Behavioral Specifications encourages builders of
complex information systems to accelerate their move to using the
approach of a scientific discipline in analysis rather than the
approach of a craft. The focus is on understanding customers' needs
and on precise specification of understanding gained through
analysis. Specifications must bridge any gaps in understanding
about business rules among customers, Subject Matter Experts, and
`computer people', must inform decisions about reuse of software
and systems, and must enable review of semantics over time.
Specifications need to describe semantics rather than syntax, and
to do that in an abstract and precise manner, in order to create
software systems that satisfy business rules. The papers in this
book show various ways of designing elegant and clear
specifications which are reusable, lead to savings of intellectual
effort, time, and money, and which contribute to the reliability of
software and systems. Object-Oriented Behavioral Specifications
offers a fresh treatment of the object-oriented paradigm by
examining the limitations of traditional OO methodologies and by
describing the significance of competing trends in OO modeling. The
book builds on four years of successful OOPSLA workshops
(1991-1995) on behavior semantics. This book deals with precise
specifications of `what' is accomplished by the business and `what'
is to be done by a system. The book includes descriptions of
successful use of abstract and precise specification in industry.
It draws on the experience of experts from industrial and academic
settings and benefits from international participation. Collective
behavior, neglected in some treatment of the OO paradigm, is
addressed explicitly in this book. The book does not take `reuse'
of specifications or software for granted, but furnishes a
foundation for taking as rigorous an approach to reuse decisions as
to precise specifications in original developments.
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To
mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania
Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's
distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print.
Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers
peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
A superb and unexpurgated translation of the finest and best known of the Tales. Originating from India, Persia and Arabia, the Tales from the Thousand and One Nights represent the lively expression of a lay and secular imagination in revolt against religious austerity and zeal in Oriental literature. They depict a fabulous and fanciful world of jinns and sorcerers, but their bawdiness, realism and variety of subject matter also firmly anchor them to everyday life. In this volume the translator has caught the freshness and spontaneity of the stories – which, although imaginative and extravagant, are a faithful mirror of medieval Islam.
The Works of William Harvey Translated by Robert Willis.
Introduction by Arthur C. Guyton William Harvey's revolutionary
book on the circulatory system, published in Latin in 1628,
demonstrated for the first time how the heart pumps blood through
the body. His findings overturned the world's basic understanding
of the way the body functions and changed fundamental knowledge of
physiology as much as any scientific work in history. The Works of
William Harvey will provide scientists, students, physicians, and
interested lay persons access to the original works of a pioneer
who shaped contemporary science. This edition is a reissue of the
1965 facsimile of the 1867 collection and translation of Harvey's
works. Included are his groundbreaking 1628 book on the circulatory
system, a book on animal reproduction, and various shorter
scientific writings and letters, along with a new introduction.
Arthur C. Guyton, M.D., is Professor in and Chairman of the
Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of
Mississippi School of Medicine. 1989 736 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ISBN
978-0-8122-8166-8 Cloth $39.95s 26.00 ISBN 978-0-8122-0862-7 Ebook
$39.95s 26.00 World Rights Medicine, Anatomy and Physiology,
History
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