Programming Methodology

*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)

Autorentext
Mário S. Alvim is assistant professor in the Computer Science Department of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte. His current research interests include formal methods for security and privacy, as well as applications of quantitative information flow to fields beyond security. Kostas Chatzikokolakis is associate professor at the University of Athens. He works on security and privacy, in particular quantitative information flow, location privacy, and differential privacy. Annabelle McIver is professor in the Dept. of Computing at Macquarie University in Sydney. She works on mathematical techniques for the verification of probabilistic systems. Carroll Morgan is professor in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of New South Wales, and is affiliated with the Trustworthy Systems Group of CSIRO's Data61. His current interests are quantitative information flow, program derivation (including security), and proved correctness of multicore operating-system kernels. Catuscia Palamidessi is director of research at Inria Saclay. She is the leader of COMÈTE, a research team in the Inria and École Polytechnique shared lab. Her main research interests are quantitative information flow, privacy, and concurrency theory. Geoffrey Smith is professor in the School of Computing and Information Sciences of Florida International University in Miami. His current research interests include quantitative information flow and its applications to cryptography.

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.