David Harel

What They Really Can't Do

Computers Ltd

Roni Rosner

Provides a study of the fundamental theoretical ideas of computing and examining how to design accurate and efficient algorithms.

The Spirit of Computing

Algorithmics

Oscar Nierstrasz

Jon Whittle

Gianna Reggio

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (formerly UML conferences), MoDELS 2006. The book presents 51 revised full papers and 2 invited papers. Discussion is organized in topical sections on evaluating UML, MDA in software development, concrete syntax, applying UML to interaction and coordination, aspects, model integration, formal semantics of UML, security, model transformation tools and implementation, and more.

9th International Conference, MoDELS 2006, Genova, Italy, October 1-6, 2006, Proceedings

Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems

David Harel explains and illustrates one of the most fundamental, yet under-exposed facets of computers - their inherent limitations.

What They REALLY Can't Do

Rami Marelly

This book does not tell a story. Instead, it is about stories. Or rather, in technical terms, it is about scenarios. Scenarios of system behavior. It con centrates on reactive systems, be they software or hardware, or combined computer-embedded systems, including distributed and real-time systems. We propose a different way to program such systems, centered on inter object scenario-based behavior. The book describes a language, two tech niques, and a supporting tool. The language is a rather broad extension of live sequence charts (LSCs), the original version of which was proposed in 1998 by W. Damm and the first-listed author of this book. The first of the two techniques, called play-in, is a convenient way to 'play in' scenario based behavior directly from the system's graphical user interface (QUI). The second technique, play-out, makes it possible to execute, or 'play out', the behavior on the QUI as if it were programmed in a conventional intra object state-based fashion. All this is implemented in full in our tool, the Play-Engine. The book can be viewed as offering improvements in some ofthe phases of known system development life cycles, e.g., requirements capture and anal ysis, prototyping, and testing. However, there is a more radical way to view the book, namely, as proposing an alternative way to program reactivity, which, being based on inter-object scenarios, is a lot closer to how people think about systems and their behavior.

Scenario-Based Programming Using LSCs and the Play-Engine

Come, Let’s Play

Yishai Feldman

Un'eccellente introduzione agli algoritmi, alla loro struttura, a come modificano i dati, alla computabilità e alla complessità, il libro è scritto in una forma allo stesso tempo elegante e schietto che fa sì che possa essere considerato sia un valido testo per un corso introduttivo di Informatica, sia un tesoro da custodire per i programmatori provetti e i progettisti di software.

Lo spirito dell'informatica

Algoritmi

Erik Winfree

Arto Salomaa

Joost N. Kok

Anne Condon

A fundamental understanding of algorithmic bioprocesses is key to learning how information processing occurs in nature at the cell level. The field is concerned with the interactions between computer science on the one hand and biology, chemistry, and DNA-oriented nanoscience on the other. In particular, this book offers a comprehensive overview of research into algorithmic self-assembly, RNA folding, the algorithmic foundations for biochemical reactions, and the algorithmic nature of developmental processes. The editors of the book invited 36 chapters, written by the leading researchers in this area, and their contributions include detailed tutorials on the main topics, surveys of the state of the art in research, experimental results, and discussions of specific research goals. The main subjects addressed are sequence discovery, generation, and analysis; nanoconstructions and self-assembly; membrane computing; formal models and analysis; process calculi and automata; biochemical reactions; and other topics from natural computing, including molecular evolution, regulation of gene expression, light-based computing, cellular automata, realistic modelling of biological systems, and evolutionary computing. This subject is inherently interdisciplinary, and this book will be of value to researchers in computer science and biology who study the impact of the exciting mutual interaction between our understanding of bioprocesses and our understanding of computation.

Algorithmic Bioprocesses

Erst Algorithmen machen die Nutzung von Computern überhaupt möglich. In diesem Buch – in der englischen Originalausgabe ein Bestseller – geben die Autoren umfassend Auskunft zu allen Fragen rund um das Thema Algorithmen: z. B. zur Berechenbarkeit, Korrektheit und Effizienz von Algorithmen, zu Programmiertechniken und auch zu aktuellen Fragen des Quantenrechnens. Das Buch kann als Grundlage eines einsemestrigen Einführungskurses in die Informatik dienen oder als Informatik-Einführung in den Naturwissenschaften, der Mathematik oder im Ingenieurwesen.

Die Kunst des Rechnens

Algorithmik

Yishai A. Feldman

The best selling 'Algorithmics' presents the most important, concepts, methods and results that are fundamental to the science of computing. It starts by introducing the basic ideas of algorithms, including their structures and methods of data manipulation. It then goes on to demonstrate how to design accurate and efficient algorithms, and discusses their inherent limitations. As the author himself says in the preface to the book; 'This book attempts to present a readable account of some of the most important and basic topics of computer science, stressing the fundamental and robust nature of the science in a form that is virtually independent of the details of specific computers, languages and formalisms'.

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