Product Description: "Steve Miller has written a readable, thought-provoking guide to the information policy conundrums of the age. He is at his best when he pierces the rhetorical redoubt of deregulation and asks what results we are seeking -- bigger monopolies? broader competition? an information elite? -- from public action...read more

Product Description: Recursive design has the potential to fundamentally change the way people develop software. This book shows object-oriented programmers, developers, and designers how recursion will reduce costs and cut their time to market.

Product Description: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language, UML 2004, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in October 2004. The 30 revised full papers presented together with summaries on the workshops and tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 135 technical paper submissions...read more

Product Description: "A readable and much needed introduction to MDA." --Dr. Jim Arlow, coauthor of UML and the Unified Process (Addison-Wesley, 2002) and Enterprise Patterns and MDA (Addison-Wesley, 2004)"This book provides an excellent introduction to the ideas and technologies that will form the foundation of the model-driven architecture over the coming years...read more

Product Description: A companion handbook to Shalaer and Mellor's popular Object-Oriented Systems Analysis, this book explains how to formalize the dynamic behavior and interaction of objects using state models, and how then to derive the system's required operations from the action of the state models...read more

Product Description: Real-time and embedded systems are in widespread use in the modern world. From the microprocessor controller in a camera, through "smart" traffic lights and production control systems, to large defense systems, computer technology is increasingly a part of systems that control and respond to their environments in real-time...read more

Product Description: In the first two volumes of Structured Development for Real Time Systems, authors Paul Ward and Stephen Mellor described a comprehensive modeling notation and a set of guidelines for using the notation to build an essential model...read more

Product Description: Without a framework for organizing and codifying these ideas, systems modeling can become disjointed, frustrating, and ultimately ineffective. This book is extensively illustrated with detailed examples illuminating the main points discussed...read more