Leader of the group Formal Methods (FM): Frank de Boer

Research in Formal methods focuses on interaction, composition, and coordination of concurrent distributed systems, and encompasses foundations, technology, and applications. Specifically, in the context of component-based software engineering and service-oriented computing, we seek to provide well-founded technology for the easy and reliable composition of third-party applications. Integral to FM's approach is the development of solid mathematical foundations, including semantics, proof theory and coalgebra, on which such technology is to be based. FM's activity is organized within three closely inter-related sub-groups:

• Component-based models and software architectures (FM3.1)
  Coordinator of this sub-group: Farhad Arbab
• Formal methods (FM3.2)
  Coordinator of this sub-group: Frank de Boer
• Coalgebraic models of computation (FM3.3)
  Coordinator of this sub-group: Jan Rutten

Since all sub-groups are typically involved in all (externally funded) research projects, there is an intense collaboration among their members. It goes without saying that FM also closely collaborates with many (national and international) academic and industrial partners.

In addition to the continuation of several ongoing projects, there are new (or very recently started) projects including: EU-FP6 CREDO on distributed services, NWO/DFG Syanco on synthesis and analysis of component connectors, BRICKS/FOCUS DIACODEM on distributed adaptive collective decision making, NWO CoCoMAS on coordination of societies of multi-agent systems, and NWO GLANCE WoMaLaPaDiA on composition and coordination of distributed workflow systems.

Previous members

List of former members of Coordination Languages.

Vacancy
PhD and postdoc position