Gunter Saake – författare

In this era of heterogeneous and distributed data sources, ranging from semistructured documents to knowledge about coordination processes or workflows, logic provides a rich set of tools and techniques with which to address the questions of how to represent, query and reason about complex data.

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of research on the application of logic-based methods to information systems, covering highly topical and emerging fields: XML programming and querying, intelligent agents, workflow modeling and verification, data integration, temporal and dynamic information, data mining, authorization, and security. It provides both scientists and graduate students with a wealth of material and references for their own research and education.

While standardization has empowered the software industry to substantially scale software development and to provide affordable software to a broad market, it often does not address smaller market segments, nor the needs and wishes of individual customers.  Software product lines reconcile mass production and standardization with mass customization in software engineering. Ideally, based on a set of reusable parts, a software manufacturer can generate a software product based on the requirements of its customer. The concept of features is central to achieving this level of automation, because features bridge the gap between the requirements the customer has and the functionality a product provides. Thus features are a central concept in all phases of product-line development.

The authors take a developer’s viewpoint, focus on the development, maintenance, and implementation of product-line variability, and especially concentrate on automated product derivation based on a user’s feature selection. The book consists of three parts. Part I provides a general introduction to feature-oriented software product lines, describing the product-line approach and introducing the product-line development process with its two elements of domain and application engineering. The pivotal part II covers a wide variety of implementation techniques including design patterns, frameworks, components, feature-oriented programming, and aspect-oriented programming, as well as tool-based approaches including preprocessors, build systems, version-control systems, and virtual separation of concerns. Finally, part III is devoted to advanced topics related to feature-oriented product lines like refactoring, feature interaction, and analysis tools specific to product lines. In addition, an appendix listsvarious helpful tools for software product-line development, along with a description of how they relate to the topics covered in this book.

To tie the book together, the authors use two running examples that are well documented in the product-line literature: data management for embedded systems, and variations of graph data structures. They start every chapter by explicitly stating the respective learning goals and finish it with a set of exercises; additional teaching material is also available online. All these features make the book ideally suited for teaching – both for academic classes and for professionals interested in self-study.

Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen von Grund auf verstehen

Kenntnisse von Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen sind ein Grundbaustein des Studiums der Informatik und verwandter Fachrichtungen. Das Buch behandelt diese Thematik in Verbindung mit der Programmiersprache Java und schlägt so eine Brücke zwischen den klassischen Lehrbüchern zur Theorie von Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen und den praktischen Einführungen in eine konkrete Programmiersprache.

Die konkreten Algorithmen und deren Realisierung in Java werdenumfassend dargestellt. Daneben werden die theoretischen Grundlagen vermittelt, die in Programmiersprachen-Kursen oft zu kurz kommen: abstrakte Maschinenmodelle, Berechenbarkeit, Algorithmenparadigmen sowie parallele und verteilte Abläufe. Einen weiteren Schwerpunkt bilden Datenstrukturen wie Listen, Bäume, Graphen und Hashtabellen sowie deren objektorientierte Implementierung mit modernen Methoden der Softwareentwicklung.

Die 6. Auflage führt einige neue Algorithmen ein und berücksichtigt die Neuerungen der aktuellen Java-Versionen, u.a. zu Themen wie Parallelisierung.