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Formal Methods for Software Engineering - COMP2600

COMP2600: Formal Methods for Software Engineering

The 2006 Archive

Text Books

The textbook for COMP2600 is

  • Logic and Discrete Mathematics: A Computer Science Perspective by Grassman and Tremblay (Prentice-Hall, 1996).
There is a good texbook on Z that is available on the web. It's by Davies and Woodcock at Oxford and its URL is: http://softeng.comlab.ox.ac.uk/usingz/ Other useful books, that you may come across, are:

  • Discrete Mathematics with Applications by Susanna Epp (Wadsworth, 1995). [This has often been a textbook in mathematics at ANU.]
  • Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming by Simon Thompson (Addison-Wesley,1999).
  • Formal Languages and their Relation to Automata by John Hopcroft & Jeffrey Ullman (Addison-Wesley, 1969).