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     1 For the purposes of the license agreement in the file COPYRIGHT, a
     2 'contributor' is anybody who is listed in this file (CONTRIBUTORS) or
     3 who is listed as an author in one of the source files of this Isabelle
     4 distribution.
     5 
     6 Contributions to this Isabelle version
     7 --------------------------------------
     8 
     9 * September 2013: Nik Sultana, University of Cambridge
    10   Improvements to HOL/TPTP parser and import facilities.
    11 
    12 * Summer 2013: Manuel Eberl, TUM
    13   Generation of elimination rules in the function package.
    14   New command "fun_cases".
    15 
    16 * Spring and Summer 2013: Lorenz Panny, Dmitriy Traytel, and
    17   Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
    18   Various improvements to BNF-based (co)datatype package, including a
    19   "primrec_new" command and a compatibility layer.
    20 
    21 * Summer 2013: Daniel Kühlwein, ICIS, Radboud University Nijmegen
    22   Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
    23   Various improvements to MaSh, including a server mode.
    24 
    25 * First half of 2013: Steffen Smolka, TUM
    26   Further improvements to Sledgehammer's Isar proof generator.
    27 
    28 * Summer 2013: Christian Sternagel, JAIST
    29   Improved support for ad hoc overloading of constants, including
    30   documentation and examples.
    31 
    32 * May 2013: Florian Haftmann, TUM
    33   Ephemeral interpretation in local theories.
    34 
    35 * May 2013: Lukas Bulwahn and Nicolai Schaffroth, TUM
    36   Spec_Check: A Quickcheck tool for Isabelle/ML.
    37 
    38 * April 2013: Stefan Berghofer, secunet Security Networks AG
    39   Dmitriy Traytel, TUM
    40   Makarius Wenzel, Université Paris-Sud / LRI
    41   Case translations as a separate check phase independent of the
    42   datatype package.
    43 
    44 * March 2013: Florian Haftmann, TUM
    45   Reform of "big operators" on sets.
    46 
    47 * March 2013: Florian Haftmann, TUM
    48   Algebraic locale hierarchy for orderings and (semi)lattices.
    49 
    50 * February 2013: Florian Haftmann, TUM
    51   Reworking and consolidation of code generation for target language
    52   numerals.
    53 
    54 * February 2013: Florian Haftmann, TUM
    55   Sieve of Eratosthenes.
    56 
    57 
    58 Contributions to Isabelle2013
    59 -----------------------------
    60 
    61 * 2012: Makarius Wenzel, Université Paris-Sud / LRI
    62   Improvements of Isabelle/Scala and Isabelle/jEdit Prover IDE.
    63 
    64 * Fall 2012: Daniel Kühlwein, ICIS, Radboud University Nijmegen
    65   Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
    66   Implemented Machine Learning for Sledgehammer (MaSh).
    67 
    68 * Fall 2012: Steffen Smolka, TUM
    69   Various improvements to Sledgehammer's Isar proof generator,
    70   including a smart type annotation algorithm and proof shrinking.
    71 
    72 * December 2012: Alessandro Coglio, Kestrel
    73   Contributions to HOL's Lattice library.
    74 
    75 * November 2012: Fabian Immler, TUM
    76   "Symbols" dockable for Isabelle/jEdit.
    77 
    78 * November 2012: Fabian Immler, TUM
    79   Proof of the Daniell-Kolmogorov theorem: the existence of the limit
    80   of projective families.
    81 
    82 * October 2012: Andreas Lochbihler, KIT
    83   Efficient construction of red-black trees from sorted associative
    84   lists.
    85 
    86 * September 2012: Florian Haftmann, TUM
    87   Lattice instances for type option.
    88 
    89 * September 2012: Christian Sternagel, JAIST
    90   Consolidated HOL/Library (theories: Prefix_Order, Sublist, and
    91   Sublist_Order) w.r.t. prefixes, suffixes, and embedding on lists.
    92 
    93 * August 2012: Dmitriy Traytel, Andrei Popescu, Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
    94   New BNF-based (co)datatype package.
    95 
    96 * August 2012: Andrei Popescu and Dmitriy Traytel, TUM
    97   Theories of ordinals and cardinals.
    98 
    99 * July 2012: Makarius Wenzel, Université Paris-Sud / LRI
   100   Advanced support for Isabelle sessions and build management, notably
   101   "isabelle build".
   102 
   103 * June 2012: Felix Kuperjans, Lukas Bulwahn, TUM and Rafal Kolanski, NICTA
   104   Simproc for rewriting set comprehensions into pointfree expressions.
   105 
   106 * May 2012: Andreas Lochbihler, KIT
   107   Theory of almost everywhere constant functions.
   108 
   109 * 2010-2012: Markus Kaiser and Lukas Bulwahn, TUM
   110   Graphview in Scala/Swing.
   111 
   112 
   113 Contributions to Isabelle2012
   114 -----------------------------
   115 
   116 * April 2012: Johannes Hölzl, TUM
   117   Probability: Introduced type to represent measures instead of
   118   locales.
   119 
   120 * April 2012: Johannes Hölzl, Fabian Immler, TUM
   121   Float: Moved to Dyadic rationals to represent floating point numers.
   122 
   123 * April 2012: Thomas Sewell, NICTA and
   124   2010: Sascha Boehme, TUM
   125   Theory HOL/Word/WordBitwise: logic/circuit expansion of bitvector
   126   equalities/inequalities.
   127 
   128 * March 2012: Christian Sternagel, JAIST
   129   Consolidated theory of relation composition.
   130 
   131 * March 2012: Nik Sultana, University of Cambridge
   132   HOL/TPTP parser and import facilities.
   133 
   134 * March 2012: Cezary Kaliszyk, University of Innsbruck and
   135   Alexander Krauss, QAware GmbH
   136   Faster and more scalable Import mechanism for HOL Light proofs.
   137 
   138 * January 2012: Florian Haftmann, TUM, et al.
   139   (Re-)Introduction of the "set" type constructor.
   140 
   141 * 2012: Ondrej Kuncar, TUM
   142   New package Lifting, various improvements and refinements to the
   143   Quotient package.
   144 
   145 * 2011/2012: Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
   146   Various improvements to Sledgehammer, notably: tighter integration
   147   with SPASS, support for more provers (Alt-Ergo, iProver,
   148   iProver-Eq).
   149 
   150 * 2011/2012: Makarius Wenzel, Université Paris-Sud / LRI
   151   Various refinements of local theory infrastructure.
   152   Improvements of Isabelle/Scala layer and Isabelle/jEdit Prover IDE.
   153 
   154 
   155 Contributions to Isabelle2011-1
   156 -------------------------------
   157 
   158 * September 2011: Peter Gammie
   159   Theory HOL/Library/Saturated: numbers with saturated arithmetic.
   160 
   161 * August 2011: Florian Haftmann, Johannes Hölzl and Lars Noschinski, TUM
   162   Refined theory on complete lattices.
   163 
   164 * August 2011: Brian Huffman, Portland State University
   165   Miscellaneous cleanup of Complex_Main and Multivariate_Analysis.
   166 
   167 * June 2011: Brian Huffman, Portland State University
   168   Proof method "countable_datatype" for theory Library/Countable.
   169 
   170 * 2011: Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
   171   Various improvements to Sledgehammer, notably: use of sound
   172   translations, support for more provers (Waldmeister, LEO-II,
   173   Satallax). Further development of Nitpick and 'try' command.
   174 
   175 * 2011: Andreas Lochbihler, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
   176   Theory HOL/Library/Cset_Monad allows do notation for computable sets
   177   (cset) via the generic monad ad-hoc overloading facility.
   178 
   179 * 2011: Johannes Hölzl, Armin Heller, TUM and
   180   Bogdan Grechuk, University of Edinburgh
   181   Theory HOL/Library/Extended_Reals: real numbers extended with plus
   182   and minus infinity.
   183 
   184 * 2011: Makarius Wenzel, Université Paris-Sud / LRI
   185   Various building blocks for Isabelle/Scala layer and Isabelle/jEdit
   186   Prover IDE.
   187 
   188 
   189 Contributions to Isabelle2011
   190 -----------------------------
   191 
   192 * January 2011: Stefan Berghofer, secunet Security Networks AG
   193   HOL-SPARK: an interactive prover back-end for SPARK.
   194 
   195 * October 2010: Bogdan Grechuk, University of Edinburgh
   196   Extended convex analysis in Multivariate Analysis.
   197 
   198 * October 2010: Dmitriy Traytel, TUM
   199   Coercive subtyping via subtype constraints.
   200 
   201 * October 2010: Alexander Krauss, TUM
   202   Command partial_function for function definitions based on complete
   203   partial orders in HOL.
   204 
   205 * September 2010: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   206   Refined concepts for evaluation, i.e., normalization of terms using
   207   different techniques.
   208 
   209 * September 2010: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   210   Code generation for Scala.
   211 
   212 * August 2010: Johannes Hoelzl, Armin Heller, and Robert Himmelmann, TUM
   213   Improved Probability theory in HOL.
   214 
   215 * July 2010: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   216   Reworking and extension of the Imperative HOL framework.
   217 
   218 * July 2010: Alexander Krauss, TUM and Christian Sternagel, University
   219     of Innsbruck
   220   Ad-hoc overloading. Generic do notation for monads.
   221 
   222 
   223 Contributions to Isabelle2009-2
   224 -------------------------------
   225 
   226 * 2009/2010: Stefan Berghofer, Alexander Krauss, and Andreas Schropp, TUM,
   227   Makarius Wenzel, TUM / LRI
   228   Elimination of type classes from proof terms.
   229 
   230 * April 2010: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   231   Reorganization of abstract algebra type classes.
   232 
   233 * April 2010: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   234   Code generation for data representations involving invariants;
   235   various collections avaiable in theories Fset, Dlist, RBT,
   236   Mapping and AssocList.
   237 
   238 * March 2010: Sascha Boehme, TUM
   239   Efficient SHA1 library for Poly/ML.
   240 
   241 * February 2010: Cezary Kaliszyk and Christian Urban, TUM
   242   Quotient type package for Isabelle/HOL.
   243 
   244 
   245 Contributions to Isabelle2009-1
   246 -------------------------------
   247 
   248 * November 2009, Brian Huffman, PSU
   249   New definitional domain package for HOLCF.
   250 
   251 * November 2009: Robert Himmelmann, TUM
   252   Derivation and Brouwer's fixpoint theorem in Multivariate Analysis.
   253 
   254 * November 2009: Stefan Berghofer and Lukas Bulwahn, TUM
   255   A tabled implementation of the reflexive transitive closure.
   256 
   257 * November 2009: Lukas Bulwahn, TUM
   258   Predicate Compiler: a compiler for inductive predicates to
   259   equational specifications.
   260 
   261 * November 2009: Sascha Boehme, TUM and Burkhart Wolff, LRI Paris
   262   HOL-Boogie: an interactive prover back-end for Boogie and VCC.
   263 
   264 * October 2009: Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
   265   Nitpick: yet another counterexample generator for Isabelle/HOL.
   266 
   267 * October 2009: Sascha Boehme, TUM
   268   Extension of SMT method: proof-reconstruction for the SMT solver Z3.
   269 
   270 * October 2009: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   271   Refinement of parts of the HOL datatype package.
   272 
   273 * October 2009: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   274   Generic term styles for term antiquotations.
   275 
   276 * September 2009: Thomas Sewell, NICTA
   277   More efficient HOL/record implementation.
   278 
   279 * September 2009: Sascha Boehme, TUM
   280   SMT method using external SMT solvers.
   281 
   282 * September 2009: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   283   Refinement of sets and lattices.
   284 
   285 * July 2009: Jeremy Avigad and Amine Chaieb
   286   New number theory.
   287 
   288 * July 2009: Philipp Meyer, TUM
   289   HOL/Library/Sum_Of_Squares: functionality to call a remote csdp
   290   prover.
   291 
   292 * July 2009: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   293   New quickcheck implementation using new code generator.
   294 
   295 * July 2009: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   296   HOL/Library/Fset: an explicit type of sets; finite sets ready to use
   297   for code generation.
   298 
   299 * June 2009: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   300   HOL/Library/Tree: search trees implementing mappings, ready to use
   301   for code generation.
   302 
   303 * March 2009: Philipp Meyer, TUM
   304   Minimization tool for results from Sledgehammer.
   305 
   306 
   307 Contributions to Isabelle2009
   308 -----------------------------
   309 
   310 * March 2009: Robert Himmelmann, TUM and Amine Chaieb, University of
   311   Cambridge
   312   Elementary topology in Euclidean space.
   313 
   314 * March 2009: Johannes Hoelzl, TUM
   315   Method "approximation", which proves real valued inequalities by
   316   computation.
   317 
   318 * February 2009: Filip Maric, Univ. of Belgrade
   319   A Serbian theory.
   320 
   321 * February 2009: Jasmin Christian Blanchette, TUM
   322   Misc cleanup of HOL/refute.
   323 
   324 * February 2009: Timothy Bourke, NICTA
   325   New find_consts command.
   326 
   327 * February 2009: Timothy Bourke, NICTA
   328   "solves" criterion for find_theorems and auto_solve option
   329 
   330 * December 2008: Clemens Ballarin, TUM
   331   New locale implementation.
   332 
   333 * December 2008: Armin Heller, TUM and Alexander Krauss, TUM
   334   Method "sizechange" for advanced termination proofs.
   335 
   336 * November 2008: Timothy Bourke, NICTA
   337   Performance improvement (factor 50) for find_theorems.
   338 
   339 * 2008: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   340   Various extensions and restructurings in HOL, improvements
   341   in evaluation mechanisms, new module binding.ML for name bindings.
   342 
   343 * October 2008: Fabian Immler, TUM
   344   ATP manager for Sledgehammer, based on ML threads instead of Posix
   345   processes.  Additional ATP wrappers, including remote SystemOnTPTP
   346   services.
   347 
   348 * September 2008: Stefan Berghofer, TUM and Marc Bezem, Univ. Bergen
   349   Prover for coherent logic.
   350 
   351 * August 2008: Fabian Immler, TUM
   352   Vampire wrapper script for remote SystemOnTPTP service.
   353 
   354 
   355 Contributions to Isabelle2008
   356 -----------------------------
   357 
   358 * 2007/2008:
   359   Alexander Krauss, TUM and Florian Haftmann, TUM and Stefan Berghofer, TUM
   360   HOL library improvements.
   361 
   362 * 2007/2008: Brian Huffman, PSU
   363   HOLCF library improvements.
   364 
   365 * 2007/2008: Stefan Berghofer, TUM
   366   HOL-Nominal package improvements.
   367 
   368 * March 2008: Markus Reiter, TUM
   369   HOL/Library/RBT: red-black trees.
   370 
   371 * February 2008: Alexander Krauss, TUM and Florian Haftmann, TUM and
   372   Lukas Bulwahn, TUM and John Matthews, Galois:
   373   HOL/Library/Imperative_HOL: Haskell-style imperative data structures
   374   for HOL.
   375 
   376 * December 2007: Norbert Schirmer, Uni Saarbruecken
   377   Misc improvements of record package in HOL.
   378 
   379 * December 2007: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   380   Overloading and class instantiation target.
   381 
   382 * December 2007: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   383   New version of primrec package for local theories.
   384 
   385 * December 2007: Alexander Krauss, TUM
   386   Method "induction_scheme" in HOL.
   387 
   388 * November 2007: Peter Lammich, Uni Muenster
   389   HOL-Lattice: some more lemmas.
   390 
   391 
   392 Contributions to Isabelle2007
   393 -----------------------------
   394 
   395 * October 2007: Norbert Schirmer, TUM / Uni Saarbruecken
   396   State Spaces: The Locale Way (in HOL).
   397 
   398 * October 2007: Mark A. Hillebrand, DFKI
   399   Robust sub/superscripts in LaTeX document output.
   400 
   401 * August 2007: Jeremy Dawson, NICTA and Paul Graunke, Galois and Brian
   402     Huffman, PSU and Gerwin Klein, NICTA and John Matthews, Galois
   403   HOL-Word: a library for fixed-size machine words in Isabelle.
   404 
   405 * August 2007: Brian Huffman, PSU
   406   HOL/Library/Boolean_Algebra and HOL/Library/Numeral_Type.
   407 
   408 * June 2007: Amine Chaieb, TUM
   409   Semiring normalization and Groebner Bases.
   410   Support for dense linear orders.
   411 
   412 * June 2007: Joe Hurd, Oxford
   413   Metis theorem-prover.
   414 
   415 * 2007: Kong W. Susanto, Cambridge
   416   HOL: Metis prover integration.
   417 
   418 * 2007: Stefan Berghofer, TUM
   419   HOL: inductive predicates and sets.
   420 
   421 * 2007: Norbert Schirmer, TUM
   422   HOL/record: misc improvements.
   423 
   424 * 2006/2007: Alexander Krauss, TUM
   425   HOL: function package and related theories on termination.
   426 
   427 * 2006/2007: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   428   Pure: generic code generator framework.
   429   Pure: class package.
   430   HOL: theory reorganization, code generator setup.
   431 
   432 * 2006/2007: Christian Urban, TUM and Stefan Berghofer, TUM and
   433     Julien Narboux, TUM
   434   HOL/Nominal package and related tools.
   435 
   436 * November 2006: Lukas Bulwahn, TUM
   437   HOL: method "lexicographic_order" for function package.
   438 
   439 * October 2006: Stefan Hohe, TUM
   440   HOL-Algebra: ideals and quotients over rings.
   441 
   442 * August 2006: Amine Chaieb, TUM
   443   Experimental support for generic reflection and reification in HOL.
   444 
   445 * July 2006: Rafal Kolanski, NICTA
   446   Hex (0xFF) and binary (0b1011) numerals.
   447 
   448 * May 2006: Klaus Aehlig, LMU
   449   Command 'normal_form': normalization by evaluation.
   450 
   451 * May 2006: Amine Chaieb, TUM
   452   HOL-Complex: Ferrante and Rackoff Algorithm for linear real
   453   arithmetic.
   454 
   455 * February 2006: Benjamin Porter, NICTA
   456   HOL and HOL-Complex: generalised mean value theorem, continuum is
   457   not denumerable, harmonic and arithmetic series, and denumerability
   458   of rationals.
   459 
   460 * October 2005: Martin Wildmoser, TUM
   461   Sketch for Isar 'guess' element.
   462 
   463 
   464 Contributions to Isabelle2005
   465 -----------------------------
   466 
   467 * September 2005: Lukas Bulwahn and Bernhard Haeupler, TUM
   468   HOL-Complex: Formalization of Taylor series.
   469 
   470 * September 2005: Stephan Merz, Alwen Tiu, QSL Loria
   471   Components for SAT solver method using zChaff.
   472 
   473 * September 2005: Ning Zhang and Christian Urban, LMU Munich
   474   A Chinese theory.
   475 
   476 * September 2005: Bernhard Haeupler, TUM
   477   Method comm_ring for proving equalities in commutative rings.
   478 
   479 * July/August 2005: Jeremy Avigad, Carnegie Mellon University
   480   Various improvements of the HOL and HOL-Complex library.
   481 
   482 * July 2005: Florian Zuleger, Johannes Hoelzl, and Simon Funke, TUM
   483   Some structured proofs about completeness of real numbers.
   484 
   485 * May 2005: Rafal Kolanski and Gerwin Klein, NICTA
   486   Improved retrieval of facts from theory/proof context.
   487 
   488 * February 2005: Lucas Dixon, University of Edinburgh
   489   Improved subst method.
   490 
   491 * 2005: Brian Huffman, OGI
   492   Various improvements of HOLCF.
   493   Some improvements of the HOL-Complex library.
   494 
   495 * 2005: Claire Quigley and Jia Meng, University of Cambridge
   496   Some support for asynchronous communication with external provers
   497   (experimental).
   498 
   499 * 2005: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   500   Contributions to document 'sugar'.
   501   Various ML combinators, notably linear functional transformations.
   502   Some cleanup of ML legacy.
   503   Additional antiquotations.
   504   Improved Isabelle web site.
   505 
   506 * 2004/2005: David Aspinall, University of Edinburgh
   507   Various elements of XML and PGIP based communication with user
   508   interfaces (experimental).
   509 
   510 * 2004/2005: Gerwin Klein, NICTA
   511   Contributions to document 'sugar'.
   512   Improved Isabelle web site.
   513   Improved HTML presentation of theories.
   514 
   515 * 2004/2005: Clemens Ballarin, TUM
   516   Provers: tools for transitive relations and quasi orders.
   517   Improved version of locales, notably interpretation of locales.
   518   Improved version of HOL-Algebra.
   519 
   520 * 2004/2005: Amine Chaieb, TUM
   521   Improved version of HOL presburger method.
   522 
   523 * 2004/2005: Steven Obua, TUM
   524   Improved version of HOL/Import, support for HOL-Light.
   525   Improved version of HOL-Complex-Matrix.
   526   Pure/defs: more sophisticated checks on well-formedness of overloading.
   527   Pure/Tools: an experimental evaluator for lambda terms.
   528 
   529 * 2004/2005: Norbert Schirmer, TUM
   530   Contributions to document 'sugar'.
   531   Improved version of HOL/record.
   532 
   533 * 2004/2005: Sebastian Skalberg, TUM
   534   Improved version of HOL/Import.
   535   Some internal ML reorganizations.
   536 
   537 * 2004/2005: Tjark Weber, TUM
   538   SAT solver method using zChaff.
   539   Improved version of HOL/refute.