Overview
- First book to describe a meta method to systematically construct a desktop handbook for engineering or computer science related disciplines
- Shows how concept analysis can be used for identifying settled knowledge as the key ingredient by utilizing the assembled data for classification
- Illustrates the sketched approach with a concrete example from the railway safety domain
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science (BRIEFSCOMPUTER)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Background
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book focuses on the clarification of what actually a handbook is, the systematic identification of what ought to be considered as “settled knowledge” (extracted from historic repositories) for inclusion into such a handbook, and the “assembly” of such identified knowledge into a form which is fit for the purpose and conforms to the formal characteristics of handbooks as a “literary genre”. For many newly emerging domains or disciplines, for which no handbook with normative authority has yet been defined, the question arises of how to do this systematically and in a non-arbitrary manner.
This book is the first to reflect upon the question of how to construct a desktop handbook. It is demonstrated how concept analysis can be used for identifying settled knowledge as the key ingredient by utilizing the assembled data for classification; a presentation scheme for handbook articles is developed and demonstrated to be suitable. The sketched approachis then illustrated by an example from the railway safety domain. Finally, the limitations of the presented methods are discussed.
The key contribution of this book is the (example illustrated) construction method itself, not the handbook, which would result from a highly detailed and thoroughly comprehensive application of the method.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Apurva Kumar completed her Masters in Applied Science from McMaster University in 2015 under the supervision of Stefan Gruner and Tom Maibaum. Many of the findings in her Master’s thesis are incorporated in this book.Apurva Kumar is currently a security researcher on the Threat Intelligence team at Lookout Inc. She spends most of her time uncovering and tracking threats as they emerge in and around the mobile space. Her main focus is on exposing and defending against nation state surveillance campaigns. Apurva's current work incorporates threat hunting, reverse engineering and penetration testing.
Tom Maibaum is an Emeritus Professor of the Foundations of Software Engineering in the Department of Computing and Software, McMaster University, Canada. He now lives in The United Kingdom. Previously, he held similarly named Chairs at King’s College London and Imperial College London. Throughout his career, his research has focused on the logical and categorical bases of software engineering and on the applications of these topics to software engineering methods. He has studied the philosophical and epistemological bases of engineering and, in particular, software engineering. Over the past 15 years he has worked with Mark Lawford and Alan Wassyng at McMaster University in the context of the McMaster Centre for Software Certification, developing new logical and epistemological foundations of safety reasoning.
Markus Roggenbach is a Professor of Computer Science at Swansea University, The United Kingdom. His research foci are formal methods for safety and for cyber security, their semantics, how to utilise them throughout the software life cycle, how to support them with tools, and their application in industrial contexts. For more than a decade, he has been collaborating with Siemens Rail Automation (formerly Invensys Rail) to answer questions concerning safety with regard to railway signalling systems. He leads the Swansea Railway Verification Group, the European Technical Working Group on Formal Methods in Railway Control, and chairs the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 1.3 “Foundations of System Specification”.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: On the Construction of Engineering Handbooks
Book Subtitle: with an Illustration from the Railway Safety Domain
Authors: Stefan Gruner, Apurva Kumar, Tom Maibaum, Markus Roggenbach
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44648-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44647-5Published: 14 April 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-44648-2Published: 13 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2191-5768
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5776
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 83
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Software Engineering, Management of Computing and Information Systems, Legal Aspects of Computing, Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering