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Designing
Software-Intensive Systems:
Methods and Principles
Pierre F. Tiako
Langston University, USA
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Designing software-intensive systems : methods and principles / Pierre F. Tiako, editor.
p. cm.
Summary: "This book addresses plex issues associated with software engineering environment capabilities for designing real-time
embedded software systems"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-59904-699-0 (hardcover) -- ISBN 978-1-59904-701-0 (ebook)
1. Software engineering. 2. Computer systems. 3. Systems engineering--Data processing. I. Tiako, Pierre F.
2008
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2008008468
British Cata