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Formal Methods Europe
Formal Methods Europe (FME) is an organization whose aim is to encourage the research and application of formal methods for the improvement of software and computer hardware, hardware in computer-based systems. The association's members are drawn from academia and Private industry, industry. It is based in Europe, but is international in scope. FME operates under Netherlands, Dutch law. Activities include or have included: * Dissemination of research findings and industrial experience through conferences (every 18 months) and sponsored events; * Development of information resources for educators; * Networking for commercial practitioners through ForTIA (Formal Techniques Industry Association). The Chair of FME is John Fitzgerald (computer scientist), John Fitzgerald of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. ForTIA The Formal Techniques Industry Association (ForTIA) aimed to support the industrial use of formal methods under the umbrella organization of ''Formal Methods Europe' ...
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Formal Methods
In computer science, formal methods are mathematics, mathematically rigorous techniques for the formal specification, specification, development, Program analysis, analysis, and formal verification, verification of software and computer hardware, hardware systems. The use of formal methods for software and hardware design is motivated by the expectation that, as in other engineering disciplines, performing appropriate mathematical analysis can contribute to the reliability and robustness of a design. Formal methods employ a variety of theoretical computer science fundamentals, including logic in computer science, logic calculi, formal languages, automata theory, control theory, program semantics, type systems, and type theory. Uses Formal methods can be applied at various points through the software development process, development process. Specification Formal methods may be used to give a formal description of the system to be developed, at whatever level of detail desired. F ...
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Formal Techniques Industry Association
Formal Methods Europe (FME) is an organization whose aim is to encourage the research and application of formal methods for the improvement of software and hardware in computer-based systems. The association's members are drawn from academia and industry. It is based in Europe, but is international in scope. FME operates under Dutch law. Activities include or have included: * Dissemination of research findings and industrial experience through conferences (every 18 months) and sponsored events; * Development of information resources for educators; * Networking for commercial practitioners through ForTIA ( Formal Techniques Industry Association). The Chair of FME is John Fitzgerald of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. ForTIA The Formal Techniques Industry Association (ForTIA) aimed to support the industrial use of formal methods under the umbrella organization of ''Formal Methods Europe''. It was founded in 2003 through the initial efforts of Dines Bjørner and was cha ...
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Formal, formality, informal or informality imply the complying with, or not complying with, some set of requirements (forms, in Ancient Greek). They may refer to: Dress code and events * Formal wear, attire for formal events * Semi-formal attire, attire for semi-formal events * Informal attire, more controlled attire than casual but less than formal * Formal (university), official university dinner, ball or other event * School formal, official school dinner, ball or other event Logic and mathematics *Formal logic, or symbolic logic ** Informal logic, the complement, whose definition and scope is contentious *Formal fallacy, reasoning of invalid structure ** Informal fallacy, the complement *Informal mathematics, also called naïve mathematics *Formal cause, Aristotle's intrinsic, determining cause *Formal power series, a generalization of power series without requiring convergence, used in combinatorics *Formal calculation, a calculation which is systematic, but without a rigo ...
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LinkedIn
LinkedIn () is an American business and employment-oriented Social networking service, social network. It was launched on May 5, 2003 by Reid Hoffman and Eric Ly. Since December 2016, LinkedIn has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft. The platform is primarily used for professional networking and career development, and allows jobseekers to post their Curriculum vitae, CVs and employers to post jobs. From 2015, most of the company's revenue came from Information broker, selling access to information about its members to recruiters and sales professionals and has also introduced their own ad portal named LinkedIn Ads to let companies advertise in their platform. LinkedIn has more than 1 billion registered members from over 200 countries and territories. LinkedIn allows members (both employees and employers) to create profiles and connect with each other in an online social network which may represent real-world professional relationships. Members can invite anyone (whet ...
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Formal Methods
In computer science, formal methods are mathematics, mathematically rigorous techniques for the formal specification, specification, development, Program analysis, analysis, and formal verification, verification of software and computer hardware, hardware systems. The use of formal methods for software and hardware design is motivated by the expectation that, as in other engineering disciplines, performing appropriate mathematical analysis can contribute to the reliability and robustness of a design. Formal methods employ a variety of theoretical computer science fundamentals, including logic in computer science, logic calculi, formal languages, automata theory, control theory, program semantics, type systems, and type theory. Uses Formal methods can be applied at various points through the software development process, development process. Specification Formal methods may be used to give a formal description of the system to be developed, at whatever level of detail desired. F ...
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BCS-FACS
BCS-FACS is the BCS ''Formal Aspects of Computing Science'' Specialist Group. Overview The FACS group, inaugurated on 16 March 1978, organizes meetings for its members and others on formal methods and related computer science topics. There is an associated journal, '' Formal Aspects of Computing'', published by Springer, and a more informal ''FACS FACTS'' newsletter. The group celebrated its 20th anniversary with a meeting at the Royal Society in London in 1998, with presentations by four eminent computer scientists, Mike Gordon, Tony Hoare, Robin Milner and Gordon Plotkin, all Fellows of the Royal Society. From 2002 to 2008 and since 2013 again, the Chair of BCS-FACS has been Jonathan Bowen. Jawed Siddiqi was chair during 2008–2013. In December 2002, BCS-FACS organized a conference on the ''Formal Aspects of Security'' (FASec'02) at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2004, FACS organized a major event at London South Bank University to celebrate its own 25th anniver ...
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McMaster University
McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main McMaster campus is on of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood, Ontario, Ainslie Wood and Westdale, Ontario, Westdale, adjacent to the Royal Botanical Gardens, Ontario, Royal Botanical Gardens. It operates six Faculty (division), academic faculties: the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster Faculty of Engineering, Engineering, McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences, Health Sciences, Humanities, McMaster Faculty of Social Sciences, Social Science, and McMaster Faculty of Science, Science. It is a member of the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities, U15, a group of research-intensive universities in Canada. The university bears the name of William McMaster, a prominent Canadian Senate of Canada, senator and banker who bequeathed Canadian dollar, C$900,000 to its founding. It was incorporated under the terms of an act of the Legislative Assembly of On ...
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Dines Bjørner
Dines Bjørner (born 4 October 1937) is a Danish computer scientist. He specializes in research into domain engineering, requirements engineering and formal methods. He worked with Cliff Jones and others on the Vienna Development Method (VDM) at IBM Laboratory Vienna (and elsewhere). He played a leading role in the EU ESPRIT ProCoS project on ''Provably Correct Systems'' during 1989–1995. Later he was involved with producing the RAISE (Rigorous Approach to Industrial Software Engineering) formal method with tool support. Bjørner was a professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) from 1965–1969 and 1976–2007, before he retired in March 2007. He was responsible for establishing the United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology ( UNU-IIST), Macau, in 1992 and was its first director. His ''magnum opus'' on software engineering (three volumes) appeared in 2005/6. To support VDM, Bjørner co-founded VDM-Europe, which subsequently beca ...
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University Of Newcastle Upon Tyne
Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a public university, public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is a red brick university and a member of the Russell Group, an association of research-intensive UK universities. The university's history began with the School of Medicine and Surgery (later the College of Medicine), established in Newcastle in 1834, and the Edward Fenwick Boyd#College of Physical Science, College of Physical Science (later renamed Armstrong College), founded in 1871. These two colleges came to form the larger division of the federal University of Durham, with the Colleges of Durham University, Durham Colleges forming the other. The Newcastle colleges merged to form King's College in 1937. In 1963, following an Act of Parliament, King's College became the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. The university is subdivided into three faculti ...
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John Fitzgerald (computer Scientist)
__NOTOC__ John S. Fitzgerald Fellow of the BCS, FBCS (born 1965) is a British computer scientist. He is a professor at Newcastle University. He was the head of the School of Computing before taking on the role of Dean of Strategic Projects in the university’s Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering. His research interests are in the area of dependability, dependable computer systems and formal methods, with a background in the Vienna Development Method, VDM.VDM portal
He is a former Chair of Formal Methods Europe and committee member of BCS-FACS.


Education

Fitzgerald was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and was educated at Bangor Grammar School and the Victoria University of Manchester. He holds the BSc in Computing and Information Systems and the PhD degrees from the Department of Computer Science at Manchester.


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