Conquering Complexity (Record no. 100642)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781447122975 |
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| Standard number or code | 10.1007/978-1-4471-2297-5 |
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| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QA75.5-76.95 |
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| Subject category code | UY |
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| Subject category code | COM014000 |
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| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 004 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hinchey, Mike. |
| Relator term | editor. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Conquering Complexity |
| Medium | [electronic resource] / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | edited by Mike Hinchey, Lorcan Coyle. |
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| -- | London : |
| -- | Springer London, |
| -- | 2012. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | XXIII, 466p. 148 illus. |
| Other physical details | online resource. |
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| Summary, etc | Software has long been perceived as complex, at least within Software Engineering circles. We have been living in a recognised state of crisis since the first NATO Software Engineering conference in 1968. Time and again we have been proven unable to engineer reliable software as easily/cheaply as we imagined. Cost overruns and expensive failures are the norm. The problem is fundamentally one of complexity: software is fundamentally complex because it must be precise. Problems that appear to be specified quite easily in plain language become far more complex when written in a more formal notation, such as computer code. Comparisons with other engineering disciplines are deceptive. One cannot easily increase the factor of safety of software in the same way that one could in building a steel structure, for example. Software is typically built assuming perfection, often without adequate safety nets in case the unthinkable happens. In such circumstances it should not be surprising to find out that (seemingly) minor errors have the potential to cause entire software systems to collapse. The goal of this book is to uncover techniques that will aid in overcoming complexity and enable us to produce reliable, dependable computer systems that will operate as intended, and yet are produced on-time, in budget, and are evolvable, both over time and at run time. We hope that the contributions in this book will aid in understanding the nature of software complexity and provide guidance for the control or avoidance of complexity in the engineering of complex software systems. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Computer science. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Computer Science. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Computer Science, general. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Coyle, Lorcan. |
| Relator term | editor. |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| 773 0# - HOST ITEM ENTRY | |
| Title | Springer eBooks |
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| Display text | Printed edition: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781447122968 |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2297-5 |
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