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Abstract State Machines
A Method for High-Level System Design and Analysis

This book introduces into a new software engineering method which guides the development of systems seamlessly from requirements capture to coding. The method bridges the gap between understanding and formulating real-world problems by humans and the deployment of their solutions by code-executing machines on changing platforms.It covers design and analysis for both hardware and software systems.It has a scientific foundation and improves current industrial practice by linking the descriptions at the successive stages of the system development cycle in a coherent conceptual framework to keep the system models at related levels synchronized.The method supports the integration of standard design, analysis and documentation techniques for model reuse (by abstraction), validation (by simulation and high-level testing), verification (by reasoning) and maintenance (by structured documentation).

The book is addressed to software engineers (architects, designers, program managers, implementers), researchers, lecturers and students. It is conceived as Modeling Handbook for the Working Software Engineer and as ASM Compendium. As textbook it supports both self-study (providing numerous exercises) and teaching (coming with lecture slides on an accompanying CD).

Springer-Verlag 2003, ISBN 3-540-00702-4


The authors of  the AsmBook

Egon Börger

(Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa)

R. Staerk

(Theoretische Informatik, ETH Zürich)

Documentation

Review in The Computer Journal 47(2) of 2004

Review in Computing Reviews February 2004

Downloadable Material

Introduction

The introduction of the AsmBook gives a more detailed description of the goals of the book, its target audience and the treated topics.

Table of contents

The table of contents of the AsmBook

Teaching material

See the updated teaching material on ASMs in the 2018 book `Modeling Companion for Software Practitioners' (https://modelingbook.informatik.uni-ulm.de)



March 2003