Dines
Bjørner's Course Web Page
Faculty of Informatics
Eötvös Loránd University
E-Mail: bjorner@gmail.com
URL: www.imm.dtu.dk/~db
11-22 October, 2010 [Most recent update: August 30, 2010]
- (30 August, 2010) This Web page uploaded to
ELTE.
- (26 August, 2010) Bibliography and minor changes.
- (14 June, 2010) Calendar change (11-22 October)
- Creation of this Web page: 26 April, 2010
This Web page, with its sub-Web pages, provides
information about the course to be given at Eötvös Loránd
University.
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Course Name:
From Domains to Requirements
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Course Period:
11-22 October, 2010
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Course Days:
Monday-Friday
, every day.
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Course Venue - AM Lecture Session
- to come
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Course Venue - PM Project Tutoring Session
- to come
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Course Hours:
Suggested:
9:00-11:00, 14:00-16:00
, every day.
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Course Lecture Texts:
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Course Registration:
Ms. Kerek Ágnes
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Course Exam:
Friday, 22 October, 2010: 14:00-16:00
- Lecture notes and slides are, as of August 30, 2010, relative complete.
- Lecturer may decide to revise these lecture notes and slides
during September 2010.
- You may expect frequent updates up to the day of lecture
- so do not print out entire lecture notes now !
- 4th-5th semester MSc student or PhD student
- Basic understanding of Functional Programming
- Basic understanding of simple Mathematical Logic
- Discrete Mathematics: sets, sequences, functions, Cartesian products
- Willingness to abstract
- Eagerness to write down nice, concise English
- The aim of the course is to cover a number of
"front-of-the-wave" software engineering topics:
- two of the three Triptych of Software Engineering phases of
- Domain Engineering and
- Requirements Engineering.
It is the aim to show how these two phases relate.
- To show the dual benefit of both
- precise national language Narratives coupled with
- Formal Specification.
- To show that the new element of software engineering, namely
domain engineering,
has a number of precise methodological
stages of
- intrinsic,
- support technology,
- rules & regulations,
- script,
- management & organisation and
- human behaviour
facets.
- To show that requirements engineering now has a rather
different methodology, including:
- domain requirements, with its
- projection,
- instantiation,
- determination,
- extension and
- fitting
domain-to-requirements operations.
- The objectives of the course and the course project is to
- help ensure that course participants
- get a professional education and part-training as responsible
software engineers and
- are exposed to a number of exciting research topics.
- The objectives are further that the course participants become
acutely aware of and familiar with
- ability to express themselves
- both in informal, yet precise natural language
- and in some formal specification language.
- Finally it is an objective of the course that the course
participants
- discover the need for a serious attention,
- in software engineering,
- as well as in computing science research
to domain engineering.
- It is also an objective to for the students to learn to write
formal specification using
RSL
,
the
RAISE
S
pecification
L
anguage.
RAISE
stands for
R
igorous
A
pproach to
I
ndustrial
S
oftware
E
ngineering.
Students may, instead of in
RAISE/RSL
[4,5,2], work out the formal aspects of
their course report in
Alloy
[6],
Event B
[1],
VDM-SL
[3],
Z
[7], etc., or in good, simple and reliable Mathematics !
- Exam consist of two parts:
- a report, possibly worked out individually, or in subgroups, or
by full group of course participants;
- a two hour written test,
Friday, 22 October, 2010: 14:00-16:00
- Written test checks your understanding of your own and your
fellow students' reports !
- Students are to choose one of the below topics for their term
project:
- Airports, Airlines, Air Traffic
- Financial Service Industry
- Banking
- Commodities Exchange (Brokers, Traders, Stock Exchanges, ...)
- Credit Cards
- Insurance
- Portfolio Management
- Regulatory Agencies
- Health Care
- Hospitals
- Private Physicians / Family Doctors
- Pharmacies
- Insurance
- National Health Service
- (An abstraction of) JavaSpaces (!)
- Logistics and Transportation
- "The Market":
- Consumers
- Retailers
- Wholesalers
- Producers
- Distribution Chain
- The Gas/Oil Industry
- Pipelines
- Refineries
- Shipping
- Distribution
- Or other !
- Class is decomposed into
groups of typically 3 students each
- Each group selects or is given a subtopic to work on
- Each group delivers simple hand written notes
the first week and
- then LATEX printed notes three times during the following week
- Groups give copies to all class students at the time of
delivering these reports
to the lecturer, namely just before
afternoon session.
- Lecturer goes through delivered reports in class and suggests
ideas etc.
- Groups are more than welcome to consult the Lecturer outside
session hours:
- 11:15-12:00am, 1:00-1:45pm, 4:15-5:30pm, Monday-Friday
- in lecturer's office
- The report shall follow a format with respect to sections,
subsections, etc., set by the lecturer.
- The report shall describe a domain in clear and crisp English
- and also in some formal specification languages (SLs)
- Alloy [6],
Event B
[1],
RAISE/RSL [4,5,2], VDM-SL [3], Z
[7], etc., or in good, simple
Mathematics !
- VDM stands for the Vienna Development Method !
- If a group does not know an SL, then try "mimic" the lecturer's
RAISE/RSL.
- You will not be judged harshly, but according to your honest attempt !
- Project Report to be submitted
- by E-mail, in .ps or .pdf form
before
Tue., Nov. 2, 2010
- to
bjorner@gmail.com
- Lecturer will evaluate exam and report in
November 2010
- Consolidated grades will be published
Wed. 1 December, 2010
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- 1
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J.-R. Abrial.
The B Book: Assigning Programs to Meanings and Modeling in Event-B: System and Software Engineering.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 1996 and 2009.
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D. Bjørner.
Software Engineering, Vol. 1: Abstraction and Modelling;
Vol. 2: Specification of Systems and Languages; ol. 3: Domains, Requirements
and Software Design.
Texts in Theoretical Computer Science, the EATCS Series. Springer,
2006.
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J. Fitzgerald and P. G. Larsen.
Modelling Systems - Practical Tools and Techniques in Software
Development.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, Second edition, 2009.
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C. W. George, P. Haff, K. Havelund, A. E. Haxthausen, R. Milne, C. B. Nielsen,
S. Prehn, and K. R. Wagner.
The RAISE Specification Language.
The BCS Practitioner Series. Prentice-Hall, Hemel Hampstead, England,
1992.
- 5
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C. W. George, A. E. Haxthausen, S. Hughes, R. Milne, S. Prehn, and J. S.
Pedersen.
The RAISE Development Method.
The BCS Practitioner Series. Prentice-Hall, Hemel Hampstead, England,
1995.
- 6
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D. Jackson.
Software Abstractions: Logic, Language, and Analysis.
The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., USA, April 2006.
ISBN 0-262-10114-9.
- 7
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J. C. P. Woodcock and J. Davies.
Using Z: Specification, Proof and Refinement.
Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, 1996.
- My book in Chinese:
- Ordering information:
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Dines
Bjørner's Course Web Page
Faculty of Informatics
Eötvös Loránd University
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