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Net Meeting 36

   
Date 2 August 2009, 1300 CET
Participants Peter Gorm Larsen, John Fitzgerald, Shin Sahara, Nick Battle, Kenneth Lausdahl?, Sako Hiroshi, Augusto Ribeiro, Nico Plat, Miguel Ferreira.

Review of Action List

The actions are all at Overture on SourceForge.

VDMTools

Shin sent out the usual VDMTools report (see overture-core list).

Overture

Status for each of the Overture components at sourceforge

traces and UML mapper (KennethLausdahl)

Core components

AST:

StdLib:

Umltrans:

Tools (Maven build automation)

Astgen

eclipse (Christian and David)

No status reported

POTrans (Miguel)

Miguel has created a new subproject named Automatic Proof System (APS) (svn:core/proofsupport) where he implemented the basic interaction for the proof system as designed by Sander Vermolen.

VDMJ (Nick)

Nick created a command line client for the DBGp protocol. Nick started the work on the VICE extension execution (previously it only did VICE type checking).

Overture Community Process

Note: Language Board = Executive Committee.

LB to be downsized to 5 members. The LB accepted the first three proposals and they are:

The proposals will pass through a stage of deliberation and then execution.

Overture covering several VDM dialects instead of just OML?

Overture will undergo a series of changes to make it more linkable with the VDM “brand”. Dropping the OML name is one of the actions and avoiding the reference to different dialects might help with citations. Referring to it as VDM tools: Next Generation could also improve the visibility of Overture.

Overture will support different VDM dialects. LB is to decide which changes to the dialect will be supported but anybody is allowed to make any their own experiments/changes. Rodin Report - Kenneth & Miguel

See overture-core list.

Workshop

Program of the 7th Overture Workshop

Publication plans

In preparation:

In review:

In press:

Nothing in the “recently appeared” list.

Any Other Business

Mr Takayuki Moriof the Systems Development Center in Komatsu is expected now to come to Newcastle to work on embedded systems design and formal methods generally for 18 months from January 2010.

Next Meeting

September 6th 2009, 1300 CET

Note: next NM should address the problem of 13:00 CET = 20:00 JST.