Dwyer, Barry creator author. text Electronic books. cau 2016 monographic eng 1 online resource Systems Analysis and Synthesis: Bridging Computer Science and Information Technology presents several new graph-theoretical methods that relate system design to core computer science concepts, and enable correct systems to be synthesized from specifications. Based on material refined in the author's university courses, the book has immediate applicability for working system engineers or recent graduates who understand computer technology, but have the unfamiliar task of applying their knowledge to a real business problem. Starting with a comparison of synthesis and analysis, the book explains the fundamental building blocks of systems--atoms and events--and takes a graph-theoretical approach to database design to encourage a well-designed schema. The author explains how database systems work--useful both when working with a commercial database management system and when hand-crafting data structures--and how events control the way data flows through a system. Later chapters deal with system dynamics and modelling, rule-based systems, user psychology, and project management, to round out readers' ability to understand and solve business problems. Bridges computer science theory with practical business problems to lead readers from requirements to a working system without error or backtrackingExplains use-definition analysis to derive process graphs and avoid large-scale designs that don't quite workDemonstrates functional dependency graphs to allow databases to be designed without painful iterationIncludes chapters on system dynamics and modeling, rule-based systems, user psychology, and project management. Barry Dwyer. Includes index. System design Graph theory SCIENCE System Theory TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Operations Research Graph theory System design QA76.9.S88 003 Dwyer, Barry. [Place of publication not identified] : Morgan Kaufmann, 2016 (OCoLC)929917120 9780128054499 0128054492 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128053041 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128053041 EBLCP 160402 20190328114814.0 ocn945874776 eng