Description
Leader of the group Formal Methods: Frank de Boer.
In the Formal Methods group, our research involves finding solutions to highly pragmatic real-world problems by reducing their complexity through the elegance and beauty of mathematics. We formulate problems to reveal their complexity and make them amenable to elegant solutions.
Our work yields technological foundations that underpin software engineering and service-oriented computing. With everything we do, we aim to add stability and reliability to those foundations and so to the third-party applications built on them. In this way, we cut the costs of technological failure for business and society and make life easier for programmers, developers and ultimately users.
Our no-nonsense approach relies on the smooth transfer of knowledge between senior and junior researchers, reaching back through our rich history as one of CWI’s original research groups. Our work is grounded in our collaborations with partners in business and industry.
News
Cum laude for new method making parallel programming easier
Due to the increase of multicore processors used in smart phones, game consoles and other computers, parallel programming has become increasingly important. To prevent software errors, concurrent calculations must always exactly be executed in the correct order. This is not easy, because existing programming techniques for enforcing such orders - interaction protocols - are very hard to use. PhD student Sung-Shik Jongmans of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica and Leiden University investigated a new programming method to simplify this.
FACS Best Paper Award for Formal Methods researchers
During the FACS2015 conference three researchers associated with the CWI Formal Methods research group were awarded the Best Paper Award for their article ‘Composing Constraint Automata, State-by-State’. The conference was held in Niterói, Brazil, from 14-16 October 2015.
Cum laude for PhD student Jurriaan Rot
Infinite data structures can be studied with a simplified technique, thanks to research done by PhD student Jurriaan Rot. He received his PhD degree with honours (cum laude) for his thesis ‘Enhanced Coinduction’ at Leiden University on 15 October 2015. This thesis belongs to the 5% best dissertations in the field of computer science.
TCS journal honours Jan Rutten
Jan Rutten from CWI’s Formal Methods research group was recently awarded by the journal Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) for his much cited article Universal Coalgebra – a theory of systems, on the occasion of the journal’s 40th anniversary.
Current events
16th International Conference on Formal Aspects of Component Software (FACS 2019)
- 2019-10-23T09:00:00+02:00
- 2019-10-25T17:00:00+02:00
16th International Conference on Formal Aspects of Component Software (FACS 2019)
Start: 2019-10-23 09:00:00+02:00 End: 2019-10-25 17:00:00+02:00
Call for Papers: FACS 2019
FACS 2019 is concerned with how formal methods can be applied to component-based software and system development. Formal methods have provided foundations for component-based software through research on mathematical models for components, composition and adaptation, and rigorous approaches to verification, deployment, testing, and certification.
Component-based software development proposes sound engineering principles and techniques to cope with the complexity of present-day software systems. However, many challenging conceptual and technological issues remain in component-based software development theory and practice. Furthermore, the advent of service-oriented and cloud computing, cyber-physical systems, and the Internet of Things has brought to the fore new dimensions, such as quality of service and robustness to withstand faults, which require revisiting established concepts and developing new ones.
Invited speakers:
- Wan Fokkink (Professor of Theoretical Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
- Carlo Ghezzi (Professor of Software Engineering, Polytechnic University of Milan)
- Kim Larsen (Professor of Computer Science, Aalborg University)
- Web
- Email: Sung-Shik Jongmans
- Phone: see website
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Members
Associated Members
Publications
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Bezirgiannis, N, de Boer, F.S, Johnsen, E.B, Pun, K.I, & Tapia Tarifa, S.L. (2019). Implementing SOS with active objects: A case study of a multicore memory system. In FASE 2019: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (pp. 332–350). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-16722-6_20
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Rutten, J.J.M.M. (2019). The Method of Coalgebra: exercises in coinduction. CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Serbanescu, V.N, de Boer, F.S, & Jaghouri, M.M. (2018). ASCOOP: Actors in scala with cooperative scheduling. In 21st IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2018 (pp. 19–28). doi:10.1109/CSE.2018.00010
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Lion, B, Chouali, S, & Arbab, F. (2018). Compiling protocols to Promela and verifying their LTL properties. In Proceedings of 21st MODELS Workshops 2018: Copenhagen, Denmark (pp. 31–39).
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Serbanescu, V.N, de Boer, F.S, & Jaghouri, M.M. (2018). Actors with coroutine support in Java. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (pp. 237–255). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02146-7_12
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Azadbakht, K, de Boer, F.S, & de Vink, E.P. (2018). Deadlock detection for actor-based coroutines. In Proceedings of the International symposium on Formal Methods (pp. 39–54). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-95582-7_3
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Endrullis, J, Klop, J.W, & Overbeek, R. (2018). Decreasing diagrams with two labels are complete for confluence of countable systems. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (pp. 14:1–14:15). doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2018.14
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Dokter, K.P.C, & Arbab, F. (2018). Treo: Textual syntax for Reo connectors. In Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, EPTCS (pp. 121–135). doi:10.4204/EPTCS.272.10
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Ardeshir-Larijani, E, & Arbab, F. (2018). Reo coordination model for simulation of quantum internet software. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (pp. 311–319). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-04771-9_23
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Bonsangue, M.M, & Rutten, J.J.M.M. (2018). It's All About Coordination. Essays to Celebrate the Lifelong Scientific Achievements of Farhad Arbab. (F.S de Boer, Ed.)Lecture Notes in Computer Science. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90089-6
Software
Extensible Coordination Tools: plug-ins for the Eclipse platform
ECT: The Extensible Coordination Tools consist of a set of plug-ins for the Eclipse platform to facilitate development of concurrency protocols and distributed applications based on the coordination language Reo.
SAGA: A run-time verifier for Java programs
SAGA is a run-time verifier for single-threaded as well as multi-threaded Java programs.
Current projects with external funding
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Evolutionary changes in Distributed Analysis (ECiDA)
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Reowolf
Related partners
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Anchormen
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Vitens
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Stichting NLnethttps://nlnet.nl/contact/address.html