This volume presents twelve case studies that use RAISE - Rigorous Approach to Industrial Software Engineering - to construct, analyse, develop and apply formal specifications. The case studies cover a wide range of application areas including government finance, case-based reasoning, multi-language text processing, object-oriented design patterns, component-based software design and natural resource management. By illustrating the variety of uses of formal specifications, the case studies also raise questions about the creation, purpose and scope of formal models before they are built. Additional resources and complete specifications for all of the case studies and the RAISE tools used to process them, are available on the World Wide Web. This book will be of particular interest to software engineers, especially those responsible for the initial stages of requirements engineering and software architecture and design. It will also be of interest to academics and students on advanced formal methods courses.

A linked ftp site with complete specifications for all the case studies and the RAISE tools to process them Presents real case studies as opposed to academic examples

Inhalt
Foreword.-
Thematic Introduction.-
Introduction to RAISE.-
A University Library Management System.-
Development of a Distributed Telephone Switch.-
Developing a National Financial Information System.-
Multi-Lingual Document Processing.-
Formalising Production Processes.-
Model-Based Travel Planning.-
Proving Safety of Authentication Protocols.-
Formalisation of Realm-Based Spatial Data Types.-
Object-Oriented Design Patterns.-
Automated Result Verification with AWK.-
Fail-Stop Components by Pattern Matching.-
An Infrastructure for Software Reuse.-
About the Editors.-
About the Web Site.-
References.