Abrial is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * André Joseph Abrial (1750 - 1828), French politician * (born 1783), general police chief in Lyon under Napoleon I * Jean-Marie Charles Abrial (1879-1962), French admiral during World War Two *

Georges Abrial Georges Abrial (1898 in Paris – 1970 in Vauville, Manche) was an early France, French aerodynamics, aerodynamicist. Life After graduating from the St Cyr Aeronautical Institute he worked for Pierre Levasseur (aircraft builder), Levasseur (Levass ...

(1898-1970), French aerodynamicist *

Jean-Raymond Abrial Jean-Raymond Abrial (born 1938) is a French computer scientist and inventor of the Z and B formal methods. Abrial's 1974 paper ''Data Semantics'' laid the foundation for a formal approach to Data Models; although not adopted directly by practit ...

(born 1938), French computer scientist and creator of the

Z notation The Z notation is a formal specification language used for describing and modelling computing systems. It is targeted at the clear specification of computer programs and computer-based systems in general. History In 1974, Jean-Raymond Abrial ...

and the

B-Method The B method is a method of software development based on B, a tool-supported formal method based on an abstract machine notation, used in the development of computer software. Overview B was originally developed in the 1980s by Jean-Raymond Abr ...

* General

Stéphane Abrial Stéphane Abrial (; born 7 September 1954), is a French general who is the previous commander of Allied Command Transformation based in Norfolk, VA, one of the two NATO strategic commands. His previous posting was as the Chief of Staff of the Fre ...

, French air force general * , French guitarist

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