A state-of-the-art survey and tutorial for key new topics in programming methodology written by leading international computer scientists and programmers Essential guide to modern software theory and practice for programmers, developers, computer scientists, and software engineers

From the reviews:

"The book represents a collection of essays concerning the various topics of programming methodology. A sample selected above from twenty essays of the book shows the topics cover relatively broad spectrum of programming methodology. Each essay concludes with a good set of references. This interesting book may be recommended namely to readers actively working in the field." (Ivan Martinec, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1030, 2004)

Inhalt
I Models and correctness.- A Concurrency and interaction.- 1 Wanted: a compositional approach to concurrency.- 2 Enforcing behavior with contracts.- B Logical approaches to asynchrony.- 3 Asynchronous progress.- 4 A reduction theorem for concurrent object-oriented programs.- C Systems and real time.- 5 Abstractions from time.- 6 A predicative semantics for real-time refinement.- D Specifying complex behaviour.- 7 Aspects of system description.- 8 Modelling architectures for dynamic systems.- 9 What is a method? an essay on some aspects of domain engineering.- II Programming techniques.- E Object orientation.- 10 Object-oriented programming and software development a critical assessment.- 11 A trace model for pointers and objects.- 12 Object models as heap invariants.- 13 Abstraction dependencies.- F Type theory.- 14 Type systems.- 15 What do types mean? From intrinsic to extrinsic semantics.- III Applications and automated theories.- G Putting theories into practice by automation.- 16 Automated verification using deduction, exploration, and abstraction.- 17 An experiment in feature engineering.- H Programming circuits.- 18 High-level circuit design.- I Security and keeping secrets.- 19 Power analysis: attacks and countermeasures.- 20 A probabilistic approach to information hiding.