Specification of Software Systems This extensively revised and updated new edition of Specification of Software Systems builds upon the original focus on software specification with added emphasis on the practice of formal methods for specification and verification activities for different types of software systems and at different stages of developing software systems. Topics and features: provides a wide coverage of formal specification techniques and a clear writing style supported by end of chapter bibliographic notes for further reading; presents a logical structure with sections devoted to specification fundamentals basics of formalism logic set theory and relations property oriented specification methods and model based specification techniques; contains end of chapter exercises and numerous case studies with potential course outlines suggested in the Preface; covers Object Z B Method and Calculus of Communicating Systems; offers material that can be taught with tool supported laboratory projects. Dr. V.S. Alagar is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering of Concordia University Montreal Canada. Dr. K. Periyasamy is a full Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Wisconsin La Crosse USA.