The target is customary: software engineering, in one of its most complex and often approached subdomains: concurrent and real time systems. The weapon - felt as hard to learn and cumbersome to handle - is rather infrequent: formal design methods. The conceptual distance between the disciplined, closely controlled and well-established world of mathematics and the effervescent and ever increasing jungle of real-time application development is huge. No wonder, the low hit rate - so far. This book may possibly change the overall picture.
by David Gray