Jean-Raymond Abrial
Jean-Raymond Abrial (born 1938)[1] is a French computer scientist and inventor of the Z and B formal methods.[2]
Abrial's 1974 paper Data Semantics[3] laid the foundation for a formal approach to Data Models; although not adopted directly by practitioners, it directly influenced all subsequent models from the Entity-Relationship Model through to RDF.
J.-R. Abrial is the father of the Z notation (typically used for formal specification of software), during his time at the Programming Research Group within the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now Oxford University Department of Computer Science), and later the B-Method (normally used for software development), two formal methods for software engineering. He is the author of The B-Book: Assigning Programs to Meanings.[4] For much of his career he has been an independent consultant.[5] He was an invited professor at ETH Zurich from 2004 to 2009.[6]
References
- ^ Bowen, Jonathan P.; Liu, Zhiming; Zhang, Zili (2019-04-17). Engineering Trustworthy Software Systems: 4th International School, SETSS 2018, Chongqing, China, April 7–12, 2018, Tutorial Lectures. Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-17601-3.
- ^ "Jean-Raymond Abrial". DBLP. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
- ^ Jean-Raymond Abrial (1974). "Data Semantics". IFIP Working Conference Data Base Management.
- ^ Jean-Raymond Abrial (1996). The B-Book: Assigning Programs to Meanings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-49619-5.
- ^ "Academy of Europe: Abrial Jean-Raymond". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
- ^ Abrial, Jean-Raymond (22 August 2005). "Managing the Construction of Large Computerized Systems". Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Archived from the original on 26 September 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
External links
- Jean-Raymond Abrial at DBLP Bibliography Server
- Review of The B-Book at the Wayback Machine (archived December 2, 2007) by Jonathan Bowen
- Managing the Construction of Large Computerized Systems — article
- Have we learned from the Wasa disaster (video) — talk by Jean-Raymond Abrial
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