Computer, Network, Software, and Hardware Engineering with Applications

✍ Scribed by Norman F. Schneidewind(auth.)

• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 601
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

There are many books on computers, networks, and software engineering but none that integrate the three with applications. Integration is important because, increasingly, software dominates the performance, reliability, maintainability, and availability of complex computer and systems. Books on software engineering typically portray software as if it exists in a vacuum with no relationship to the wider system. This is wrong because a system is more than software. It is comprised of people, organizations, processes, hardware, and software. All of these components must be considered in an integrative fashion when designing systems. On the other hand, books on computers and networks do not demonstrate a deep understanding of the intricacies of developing software. In this book you will learn, for example, how to quantitatively analyze the performance, reliability, maintainability, and availability of computers, networks, and software in relation to the total system. Furthermore, you will learn how to evaluate and mitigate the risk of deploying integrated systems. You will learn how to apply many models dealing with the optimization of systems. Numerous quantitative examples are provided to help you understand and interpret model results. This book can be used as a first year graduate course in computer, network, and software engineering; as an on-the-job reference for computer, network, and software engineers; and as a reference for these disciplines.Content:
Chapter 1 Digital Logic and Microprocessor Design (pages 1–62):
Chapter 2 Case Study in Computer Design (pages 63–82):
Chapter 3 Analog and Digital Computer Interactions (pages 83–96):
Chapter 4 Integrated Software and Real?Time System Design with Applications (pages 97–124):
Chapter 5 Network Systems (pages 125–142):
Chapter 6 Future Internet Performance Models (pages 143–210):
Chapter 7 Network Standards (pages 211–227):
Chapter 8 Network Reliability and Availability Metrics (pages 228–260):
Chapter 9 Programming Languages (pages 261–285):
Chapter 10 Operating Systems (pages 286–302):
Chapter 11 Software Reliability and Safety (pages 303–312):
Chapter 12 Integration of Hardware and Software Reliability (pages 313–334):
Chapter 13 Applying Neural Networks to Software Reliability Assessment (pages 335–353):
Chapter 14 Web Site Design (pages 354–376):
Chapter 15 Mobile Device Engineering (pages 377–395):
Chapter 16 Signal?Driven Software Model for Mobile Devices (pages 396–419):
Chapter 17 Object?Oriented Analysis and Design Applied to Mathematical Software (pages 420–442):
Chapter 18 Tutorial on Hardware and Software Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability (pages 443–465):