This Festschrift Symposium celebrates the 80th birthday of Prof. Jifeng, an important contributor to the field of formal methods.
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Speakers
- Jifeng He, Tongji University
- Jonathan Bowen, London South Bank University
- Huibiao Zhu, East China Normal University
See agenda below for full list of speakers
The slides and video recording for the presentation of the paper "Jifeng He at Oxford and Beyond: An Appreciation" are available online.
Springer information is now available and the overall proceedings and individual papers by paper number
have DOIs of the form:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40436-8
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40436-8_1
Agenda
(Times are in BST and are for compatibility with the time in China, 7 hours difference.)
Day 1 - Friday 15 September 2023
- 06:30am - Opening Speech Jifeng He, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
- 06:45am - Jifeng He at Oxford and Beyond: An Appreciation
Jonathan Bowen, London South Bank University, London, UK
Huibaio Zhu, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China - 07:15am - UTP, Circus, and Isabelle
Frank Zeyda, Guadalajara, Mexico - 07:45am - Linking Formal Methods in Software Development - A Reflection on the Development of rCOS
Zhiming Liu, Southwest University, Chongqing, China - 08:15am - Break
- 08:40am - Consciousness by Degree
Jeff Sanders, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, South Africa - 09:10am - Specifying and Reasoning about Shared Variable Concurrency
Ian Hayes, The University of Queensland, Australia - 09:40am - The Consensus Machine: Formalising Consensus in the Presence of Malign Agents
Bill Roscoe, University of Oxford, UK - 10:10am - Break
- 10:30am - Domain Modelling: A Foundation for Software Development
Dines Bjørner, The Technical University of Denmark, Holte, Denmark - 11:00am - Logical Algorithmics
Moshe Vardi, Rice University, Houston, USA - 11:30am - Additional tributes
Bernard Sufrin, University of Oxford, UK (et al.)
Day 2 - Saturday 16 September 2023
- 06:30am - Characterizations of Parallel Real Time Workloads
Wang Yi, Uppsala University, Sweden - 07:00am - Towards Efficient Data flow Test Data Generation
Ting Su, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China - 07:30am - Assume Guarantee Reasoning for Additive Hybrid Behaviour
Kim Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Jonas Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark - 08:00am - Break
- 08:30am - Time: It is only Logical!
Frédéric Mallet, Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France - 09:00am - Applying Formal Verification to an Open Source Real Time Operating System
Andrew Butterfield, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - 09:30am - KnowLang - A Formal Specification Model for Self Adaptive Systems
Mike Hinchey, University of Limerick, Ireland
Emil Vassev, University of Limerick, Ireland - 10:00am - Break
- 10:15am - Concurrent Hyperproperties
Ernst Rüdiger Olderog, University of Oldenburg, Germany - 10:45am - A Coq Implementation of the Program Algebra in Jifeng He’s New Roadmap for Linking Theories of Programming
Qin Li, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China - 11:15am - Closing
Jifeng He, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Synopsis
The 80th birthday Festschrift symposium for Prof. Jifeng He (“Jifeng@80”) is to be held during 15–16 September 2023, at the Shanghai Science Hall in Shanghai, China.
This historic venue was built in the early 20th century within the French Concession area of Shanghai, previously as a school and for other purposes.
In the 1950s, it became the Science Hall, and the facility has since been extended with newer buildings for scientific meetings and related activities.
A Festschrift volume is due to appear in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computing Science series (LNCS 14080), containing papers relevant to formal methods by colleagues of Jifeng He, many of whom have been coauthors of academic papers with him.
This proceedings is a follow-on volume to that associated with
Jifeng He’s 70th birthday Festschrift symposium (LNCS 8051).
About the speakers
Jifeng He
Jifeng He was born in Shanghai China, in August 1943. He graduated in 1965 from the Department of Mathematics at Fudan University, located in Shanghai. Since 1965, he has held a position at East China Normal University (ECNU) in Shanghai, successively serving as a teaching assistant and then lecturer, and was promoted to full professor in 1986. In 1988, he was awarded the title of National Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions.
From 1980 to 1981, he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University and the University of San Francisco in California, United States. From 1983 to 1998, he worked as a senior researcher in the Programming Research Group (PRG) at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (OUCL) in the United Kingdom, collaborating extensively with Tony Hoare, based in Oxford although retaining his position at ECNU. He was an important researcher on the European ESPRIT ProCoS project on “Provably Correct Systems” from 1989 and an essential collaborator with Tony Hoare on the Unifying Theories of Programming (UTP) approach that has spawned an important subfield of formal methods.
From 1998, Jifeng worked as a senior researcher at the International Institute of Software Technology of the United Nations University (UNU/IIST) in Macau.
During 2002 to 2019, he was the Dean of the Software Engineering Institute at East China Normal University (ECNU). In 2002, he joined the first group of lifelong professors of ECNU. He was elected in 2005 as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the highest scientific recognition in China. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of York in2009.
In December 2015, he was awarded the French National Palm Education Knight Medal. From 2017, Jifeng started to consider the issues around trustworthiness in Artificial Intelligence (AI). In 2019, he was appointed as the Distinguished Professor at Tongji University located in Shanghai. Jifeng’s research interests have included sound methods for the specification of computer systems, communications, applications, and standards, as well as techniques for designing and implementing those specifications in software and/or hardware with high reliability.
Shanghai Huake Zhigu Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
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