Introduction to techniques for specifying the behaviour of software, with applications of these techniques to design, verification and construction of software. Logic-based techniques such as loop invariants and class invariants. Automata and grammar-based techniques, with applications to scanners, parsers, user-interface dialogs and embedded systems. Computability issues in software specifications. (0/0/0/24/12) PREREQUISITES: ELEC 278, ELEC 270 EXCLUSION: CISC 366
