Systems Analysis and Synthesis. Bridging Computer Science and Information Technology

✍ Scribed by Barry Dwyer

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 488
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Half Title Page,Title Page,Copyright,Foreword,Table of Contents,Preface,Acknowledgments,List of Figures,List of Tables,List of AlgorithmsEntitled to full textChapter 1 - Systems, analysis, and synthesis, Pages 1-22
Chapter 2 - Mathematical background, Pages 23-78
Chapter 3 - Atoms, Pages 79-110
Chapter 4 - Data-structure analysis, Pages 111-144
Chapter 5 - Kernel specifications, Pages 145-168
Chapter 6 - Database technology, Pages 169-202
Chapter 7 - Processes, Pages 203-252
Chapter 8 - Interfaces, Pages 253-294
Chapter 9 - Rules, Pages 295-332
Chapter 10 - System dynamics, Pages 333-358
Chapter 11 - Project management, Pages 359-384
Appendix A - Regular expressions and finite-state automata, Pages 385-394
Appendix B - Normalisation, Pages 395-422
Appendix C - Answers to the exercises, Pages 423-458
Pages 459-482

✦ Subjects

System design;Graph theory;SCIENCE;System Theory;TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING;Operations Research