Theory

Precedent

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Alexander Kogtenkov pointed out to me that precursor work to my papers on the Alias Calculus [1] [2] had been published by John Whaley and Martin Rinard [3]. There are some significant differences; in particular my rules are simpler, and their work is not explicitly presented as a calculus. But many of the basic ideas … Read more




Domain Theory: precedents

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Both Gary Leavens and Jim Horning commented (partly here, partly on Facebook) about my Domain Theory article [1] to mention that Larch had mechanisms for domain modeling and specification reuse. As Horning writes: The Larch Shared Language was really all about creating reusable domain theories, including theorems about the domains.  See, for example [2] and … Read more




ERC Advanced Investigator Grant: Concurrency Made Easy

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We have just been awarded an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant project on concurrent programming (2.5 M EUR). This article is a brief introduction to the project and a first announcement of the positions (postdocs, phds, engineer) for which we will be advertising.







TOOLS 2012, “The Triumph of Objects”, Prague in May: Call for Workshops

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The TOOLS federated conferences, held in Prague May 28 to June 1, will include five conferences (TOOLS EUROPE, ICMT, Software Composition, Tests And Proofs, Multicore Software Engineering) and a number of workshop. It is still possible to propose workshops; the instructions are given here.