CS SEMINAR

Domain Modelling

Speaker
Prof. Dines Bjørner, The Technical University of Denmark
Chaired by
Dr DONG Jin Song, Professor, School of Computing
dongjs@comp.nus.edu.sg

21 Sep 2023 Thursday, 03:00 PM to 04:30 PM

MR1, COM1-03-19

Abstract:
A terse survey is given -- with examples -- of a method: principles, procedures, techniques, and tools, for analysing & describing artefactual domains (such as (road, rail, sea, air) transport, pipelines, banking, nuclear power plants, retailing, urban planning, etc.). To analyse & describe such domains is, in a sense, to give syntax and semantics to the domain-specific verbs and nouns used by professional stakeholders of these, respective domains.

BIO:
Dines Bjørner is professor emeritus at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of The Technical University of Denmark. Dines was with IBM 1962-1975 (Sweden, California, Switzerland and Austria), and professor at DTU since 1976. He was the first & founding UN Director of the UN University's International Institute for Software Technology, Macau, 1971-1997; was a cofounder of The Dansk Datamatik Center, an industry-funded R&D institute; of VDM, now Formal Methods, Europe. He is an ACM, IEEE, FME Fellow; has an M.Sc.EE ('62), a PhD CS ('69) and a Dr.Techn. (2021); is an emeritus member of IFIP Working Groups WG2.2 and WG2.3; has published 9 books, some 120+ papers, and lectured in the Far East since 1992. His main research interest in the last 30 years has been in domain modelling. His research has always been around `programming