Rob van Glabbeek

Principal Researcher at NICTA, Sydney, Australia.
Conjoint Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia.
Research Affiliate, Concurrency Group, Theory Division, Computer Science Department, Stanford University.

Email (forever): rvg@cs.stanford.edu
Address:: National ICT Australia
Locked Bag 6016
The University of New South Wales
Sydney, NSW 1466
Australia
Office:: Room 522, Level 5, NICTA, 223 Anzac Parade, Kensington, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Fax: +61.2.8306 0405
Telephone: +61.2.8306 0492
Home address

Main Research Interest: Comparative Concurrency Semantics. Mathematical models and formal languages for the representation of distributed systems and the verification of statements about them; in particular foundational work investigating the possibilities of such models and languages.

A biography of me can be found on my website at NICTA.

Brief CV.
The third millennium started on January 1 of the year 2001.

Research

Publications.

References in bibtex format, dvi, postscript and pdf (employing the vGstyle). [Last updated 2004]
Abstracts

Ph.D. Thesis. (Introduction and table of contents; list of main results).

Research by topic:

Linear Logic [50, 57] (2002-present)
Process algebra (1984-present)
- CCS and CSP [1] (1986)
- ACP, abstraction, fairness, recursion, induction and termination [2,3,4,5] (1984-1987)
- Structural operational semantics (1993 ->)
  - Theory of SOS [28,31,32,33,44,48,51,53,58,61,62,64,68,72,76]
  - SOS for ST-bisimulation [29]
- Expressiveness [31] (1994 ->)
- (In)axiomatizability (1986 ->)
  - Ground-complete axiomatisations [1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 23, 25, 29, 36, 37, 38, 40, 43, 54, 69, 71, 80, 81]
  - Inaxiomatizability results [54, 81]
  - Completeness for open terms [25, 43, 80, 81]
- Iteration [36,37,38] (1995-1997)
- Scheduling algebra [40] (1996-1998) with java applet
- Timeouts [60] (1986, 2005)
Temporal logic [73] (2007)
Semantic equivalences (1984-present)
- The linear time - branching time spectrum [17, 19, 28, 43, 44, 48, 54]
- ... with silent steps [1, i, 26]
- Bisimulation [3, branching, 13, 18, 30, 45, 58, 62, 65]
- Liveness, Fairness & Impossible futures [66, 81]
- Interleaving vs. true concurrency [6, 10, 14, 15, 17, 21, 34, 35, 41, 56, 63]
- ST-bisimulation [6, 15, 17, 29, 34, 35, 56, 63]
Models of concurrency (1987-present)
- Petri nets [6, 16, 34, 42, 47, 49, 55, 56, 59, 60, 63, 77, 78, 82] (1987 ->)
- Process graphs [8a, 43, 45, iii, 56, 63, 65] (1988 ->)
- Higher dimensional automata [ii, 42, 56, 59, 63] (1991 ->)
- Configuration structures [16,17, 34, 41, 42, 56, 63, 82] (1989 ->)
- Event structures [10, 15,16,17, 20,21, 34, 35, 41, 42, 46, 52, 55, 56, 63, 82] (1987 ->)
- Metric spaces and non-well-founded sets [13] (1989)
Asynchronous Interaction in Distributed Systems [77,78]
Algorithms (2008)
- for checking the simulation preorder [74] (2008)
- for determinising finite automata [75] (2008)
Action refinement [10,12,14,15,16,17,20,21,24,29,35,41,46] (1987-2002)
Workflow modeling [47, 49] (2000-2003)
Branching bisimulation [11,12,17,23,25,26,27,36,37,38,58,64,67,73] (1988-1996; 2005 ->)
Probabilistic processes [18,30, 69-71, 79, 83] (1989-1994 ; 2005-present)
Modular specification [7,22] (1987-1990)
Interpolation [9] (1988)
Differential topology [0] (1984)

Teaching

Comparative Concurrency Semantics, COMP4151/3152/9152, Autumn 2003, 2005 & 2007 at the University of New South Wales, and Spring 1988 at the University of Amsterdam.

CS 154, Introduction to Automata and Complexity Theory, Winter 1991, 1996, 2001, and Spring 2002 at Stanford University

CS 352, Foundations of Control Structures, Fall 1990 and Spring 1993, 1995 and 1997 at Stanford University

CS 353, Algebra for computer scientists, Spring 1991 at Stanford University

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Rob van Glabbeek

rvg@CS.Stanford.EDU