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     4 
     5 
     6 Contributions to Isabelle2017
     7 -----------------------------
     8 
     9 * September 2017: Lawrence Paulson
    10   HOL-Analysis, e.g. simplicial complexes, Jordan Curve Theorem.
    11 
    12 * September 2017: Jasmin Blanchette
    13   Further integration of Nunchaku model finder.
    14 
    15 * November 2016 - June 2017: Makarius Wenzel
    16   New Isabelle/VSCode, with underlying restructuring of Isabelle/PIDE.
    17 
    18 * 2017: Makarius Wenzel
    19   Session-qualified theory names (theory imports and ROOT files).
    20   Prover IDE improvements.
    21   Support for SQL databases in Isabelle/Scala: SQLite and PostgreSQL.
    22 
    23 * August 2017: Andreas Lochbihler, ETH Zurich
    24   type of unordered pairs (HOL-Library.Uprod)
    25 
    26 * August 2017: Manuel Eberl, TUM
    27   HOL-Analysis: infinite products over natural numbers,
    28   infinite sums over arbitrary sets, connection between formal
    29   power series and analytic complex functions
    30 
    31 * March 2017: Alasdair Armstrong, University of Sheffield and
    32   Simon Foster, University of York
    33   Fixed-point theory and Galois Connections in HOL-Algebra.
    34 
    35 * February 2017: Florian Haftmann, TUM
    36   Statically embedded computations implemented by generated code.
    37 
    38 
    39 Contributions to Isabelle2016-1
    40 -------------------------------
    41 
    42 * December 2016: Ondřej Kunčar, TUM
    43   Types_To_Sets: experimental extension of Higher-Order Logic to allow
    44   translation of types to sets.
    45 
    46 * October 2016: Jasmin Blanchette
    47   Integration of Nunchaku model finder.
    48 
    49 * October 2016: Jaime Mendizabal Roche, TUM
    50   Ported remaining theories of session Old_Number_Theory to the new
    51   Number_Theory and removed Old_Number_Theory.
    52 
    53 * September 2016: Sascha Boehme
    54   Proof method "argo" based on SMT technology for a combination of
    55   quantifier-free propositional logic, equality and linear real arithmetic
    56 
    57 * July 2016: Daniel Stuewe
    58   Height-size proofs in HOL-Data_Structures.
    59 
    60 * July 2016: Manuel Eberl, TUM
    61   Algebraic foundation for primes; generalization from nat to general
    62   factorial rings.
    63 
    64 * June 2016: Andreas Lochbihler, ETH Zurich
    65   Formalisation of discrete subprobability distributions.
    66 
    67 * June 2016: Florian Haftmann, TUM
    68   Improvements to code generation: optional timing measurements, more succint
    69   closures for static evaluation, less ambiguities concering Scala implicits.
    70 
    71 * May 2016: Manuel Eberl, TUM
    72   Code generation for Probability Mass Functions.
    73 
    74 * March 2016: Florian Haftmann, TUM
    75   Abstract factorial rings with unique factorization.
    76 
    77 * March 2016: Florian Haftmann, TUM
    78   Reworking of the HOL char type as special case of a finite numeral type.
    79 
    80 * March 2016: Andreas Lochbihler, ETH Zurich
    81   Reasoning support for monotonicity, continuity and admissibility in
    82   chain-complete partial orders.
    83 
    84 * February - October 2016: Makarius Wenzel
    85   Prover IDE improvements.
    86   ML IDE improvements: bootstrap of Pure.
    87   Isar language consolidation.
    88   Notational modernization of HOL.
    89   Tight Poly/ML integration.
    90   More Isabelle/Scala system programming modules (e.g. SSH, Mercurial).
    91 
    92 * Winter 2016: Jasmin Blanchette, Inria & LORIA & MPII, Aymeric Bouzy,
    93   Ecole polytechnique, Andreas Lochbihler, ETH Zurich, Andrei Popescu,
    94   Middlesex University, and Dmitriy Traytel, ETH Zurich
    95   'corec' command and friends.
    96 
    97 * January 2016: Florian Haftmann, TUM
    98   Abolition of compound operators INFIMUM and SUPREMUM for complete lattices.
    99 
   100 
   101 Contributions to Isabelle2016
   102 -----------------------------
   103 
   104 * Winter 2016: Manuel Eberl, TUM
   105   Support for real exponentiation ("powr") in the "approximation" method.
   106   (This was removed in Isabelle 2015 due to a changed definition of "powr".)
   107 
   108 * Summer 2015 - Winter 2016: Lawrence C Paulson, Cambridge
   109   General, homology form of Cauchy's integral theorem and supporting material
   110   (ported from HOL Light).
   111 
   112 * Winter 2015/16: Gerwin Klein, NICTA
   113   New print_record command.
   114 
   115 * May - December 2015: Makarius Wenzel
   116   Prover IDE improvements.
   117   More Isar language elements.
   118   Document language refinements.
   119   Poly/ML debugger integration.
   120   Improved multi-platform and multi-architecture support.
   121 
   122 * Winter 2015: Manuel Eberl, TUM
   123   The radius of convergence of power series and various summability tests.
   124   Harmonic numbers and the Euler-Mascheroni constant.
   125   The Generalised Binomial Theorem.
   126   The complex and real Gamma/log-Gamma/Digamma/Polygamma functions and their
   127   most important properties.
   128 
   129 * Autumn 2015: Manuel Eberl, TUM
   130   Proper definition of division (with remainder) for formal power series;
   131   Euclidean Ring and GCD instance for formal power series.
   132 
   133 * Autumn 2015: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   134   Rewrite definitions for global interpretations and sublocale declarations.
   135 
   136 * Autumn 2015: Andreas Lochbihler
   137   Bourbaki-Witt fixpoint theorem for increasing functions on chain-complete
   138   partial orders.
   139 
   140 * Autumn 2015: Chaitanya Mangla, Lawrence C Paulson, and Manuel Eberl
   141   A large number of additional binomial identities.
   142 
   143 * Summer 2015: Daniel Matichuk, NICTA and Makarius Wenzel
   144   Isar subgoal command for proof structure within unstructured proof scripts.
   145 
   146 * Summer 2015: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   147   Generic partial division in rings as inverse operation of multiplication.
   148 
   149 * Summer 2015: Manuel Eberl and Florian Haftmann, TUM
   150   Type class hierarchy with common algebraic notions of integral (semi)domains
   151   like units, associated elements and normalization wrt. units.
   152 
   153 * Summer 2015: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   154   Fundamentals of abstract type class for factorial rings.
   155 
   156 * Summer 2015: Julian Biendarra, TUM and Dmitriy Traytel, ETH Zurich
   157   Command to lift a BNF structure on the raw type to the abstract type for
   158   typedefs.
   159 
   160 * Summer 2014: Jeremy Avigad, Luke Serafin, CMU, and Johannes Hölzl, TUM
   161   Proof of the central limit theorem: includes weak convergence,
   162   characteristic functions, and Levy's uniqueness and continuity theorem.
   163 
   164 
   165 Contributions to Isabelle2015
   166 -----------------------------
   167 
   168 * 2014/2015: Daniel Matichuk, Toby Murray, NICTA and Makarius Wenzel
   169   The Eisbach proof method language and "match" method.
   170 
   171 * Winter 2014 and Spring 2015: Ondrej Kuncar, TUM
   172   Extension of lift_definition to execute lifted functions that have as a
   173   return type a datatype containing a subtype.
   174 
   175 * March 2015: Jasmin Blanchette, Inria & LORIA & MPII, Mathias Fleury, MPII,
   176   and Dmitriy Traytel, TUM
   177   More multiset theorems, syntax, and operations.
   178 
   179 * December 2014: Johannes Hölzl, Manuel Eberl, Sudeep Kanav, TUM, and
   180   Jeremy Avigad, Luke Serafin, CMU
   181   Various integration theorems: mostly integration on intervals and
   182   substitution.
   183 
   184 * September 2014: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   185   Lexicographic order on functions and
   186   sum/product over function bodies.
   187 
   188 * August 2014: Andreas Lochbihler, ETH Zurich
   189   Test infrastructure for executing generated code in target languages.
   190 
   191 * August 2014: Manuel Eberl, TUM
   192   Generic euclidean algorithms for GCD et al.
   193 
   194 
   195 Contributions to Isabelle2014
   196 -----------------------------
   197 
   198 * July 2014: Thomas Sewell, NICTA
   199   Preserve equality hypotheses in "clarify" and friends. New
   200   "hypsubst_thin" method configuration option.
   201 
   202 * Summer 2014: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   203   Consolidation and generalization of facts concerning (abelian)
   204   semigroups and monoids, particularly products (resp. sums) on
   205   finite sets.
   206 
   207 * Summer 2014: Mathias Fleury, ENS Rennes, and Albert Steckermeier, TUM
   208   Work on exotic automatic theorem provers for Sledgehammer (LEO-II,
   209   veriT, Waldmeister, etc.).
   210 
   211 * June 2014: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   212   Internal reorganisation of the local theory / named target stack.
   213 
   214 * June 2014: Sudeep Kanav, TUM, Jeremy Avigad, CMU, and Johannes Hölzl, TUM
   215   Various properties of exponentially, Erlang, and normal distributed
   216   random variables.
   217 
   218 * May 2014: Cezary Kaliszyk, University of Innsbruck, and
   219   Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
   220   SML-based engines for MaSh.
   221 
   222 * March 2014: René Thiemann
   223   Improved code generation for multisets.
   224 
   225 * February 2014: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   226   Permanent interpretation inside theory, locale and class targets
   227   with mixin definitions.
   228 
   229 * Spring 2014: Lawrence C Paulson, Cambridge
   230   Theory Complex_Basic_Analysis. Tidying up Number_Theory vs Old_Number_Theory
   231 
   232 * Winter 2013 and Spring 2014: Ondrej Kuncar, TUM
   233   Various improvements to Lifting/Transfer, integration with the BNF package.
   234 
   235 * Winter 2013 and Spring 2014: Makarius Wenzel, Université Paris-Sud / LRI
   236   Improvements of Isabelle/Scala and Isabelle/jEdit Prover IDE.
   237 
   238 * Fall 2013 and Winter 2014: Martin Desharnais, Lorenz Panny,
   239   Dmitriy Traytel, and Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
   240   Various improvements to the BNF-based (co)datatype package,
   241   including a more polished "primcorec" command, optimizations, and
   242   integration in the "HOL" session.
   243 
   244 * Winter/Spring 2014: Sascha Boehme, QAware GmbH, and
   245   Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
   246   "SMT2" module and "smt2" proof method, based on SMT-LIB 2 and
   247   Z3 4.3.
   248 
   249 * January 2014: Lars Hupel, TUM
   250   An improved, interactive simplifier trace with integration into the
   251   Isabelle/jEdit Prover IDE.
   252 
   253 * December 2013: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   254   Consolidation of abstract interpretations concerning min and max.
   255 
   256 * November 2013: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   257   Abolition of negative numeral literals in the logic.
   258 
   259 
   260 Contributions to Isabelle2013-1
   261 -------------------------------
   262 
   263 * September 2013: Lars Noschinski, TUM
   264   Conversion between function definitions as list of equations and
   265   case expressions in HOL.
   266   New library Simps_Case_Conv with commands case_of_simps,
   267   simps_of_case.
   268 
   269 * September 2013: Nik Sultana, University of Cambridge
   270   Improvements to HOL/TPTP parser and import facilities.
   271 
   272 * September 2013: Johannes Hölzl and Dmitriy Traytel, TUM
   273   New "coinduction" method (residing in HOL-BNF) to avoid boilerplate.
   274 
   275 * Summer 2013: Makarius Wenzel, Université Paris-Sud / LRI
   276   Improvements of Isabelle/Scala and Isabelle/jEdit Prover IDE.
   277 
   278 * Summer 2013: Manuel Eberl, TUM
   279   Generation of elimination rules in the function package.
   280   New command "fun_cases".
   281 
   282 * Summer 2013: Christian Sternagel, JAIST
   283   Improved support for ad hoc overloading of constants, including
   284   documentation and examples.
   285 
   286 * Spring and Summer 2013: Lorenz Panny, Dmitriy Traytel, and
   287   Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
   288   Various improvements to the BNF-based (co)datatype package, including
   289   "primrec_new" and "primcorec" commands and a compatibility layer.
   290 
   291 * Spring and Summer 2013: Ondrej Kuncar, TUM
   292   Various improvements of Lifting and Transfer packages.
   293 
   294 * Spring 2013: Brian Huffman, Galois Inc.
   295   Improvements of the Transfer package.
   296 
   297 * Summer 2013: Daniel Kühlwein, ICIS, Radboud University Nijmegen
   298   Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
   299   Various improvements to MaSh, including a server mode.
   300 
   301 * First half of 2013: Steffen Smolka, TUM
   302   Further improvements to Sledgehammer's Isar proof generator.
   303 
   304 * May 2013: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   305   Ephemeral interpretation in local theories.
   306 
   307 * May 2013: Lukas Bulwahn and Nicolai Schaffroth, TUM
   308   Spec_Check: A Quickcheck tool for Isabelle/ML.
   309 
   310 * April 2013: Stefan Berghofer, secunet Security Networks AG
   311   Dmitriy Traytel, TUM
   312   Makarius Wenzel, Université Paris-Sud / LRI
   313   Case translations as a separate check phase independent of the
   314   datatype package.
   315 
   316 * March 2013: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   317   Reform of "big operators" on sets.
   318 
   319 * March 2013: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   320   Algebraic locale hierarchy for orderings and (semi)lattices.
   321 
   322 * February 2013: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   323   Reworking and consolidation of code generation for target language
   324   numerals.
   325 
   326 * February 2013: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   327   Sieve of Eratosthenes.
   328 
   329 
   330 Contributions to Isabelle2013
   331 -----------------------------
   332 
   333 * 2012: Makarius Wenzel, Université Paris-Sud / LRI
   334   Improvements of Isabelle/Scala and Isabelle/jEdit Prover IDE.
   335 
   336 * Fall 2012: Daniel Kühlwein, ICIS, Radboud University Nijmegen
   337   Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
   338   Implemented Machine Learning for Sledgehammer (MaSh).
   339 
   340 * Fall 2012: Steffen Smolka, TUM
   341   Various improvements to Sledgehammer's Isar proof generator,
   342   including a smart type annotation algorithm and proof shrinking.
   343 
   344 * December 2012: Alessandro Coglio, Kestrel
   345   Contributions to HOL's Lattice library.
   346 
   347 * November 2012: Fabian Immler, TUM
   348   "Symbols" dockable for Isabelle/jEdit.
   349 
   350 * November 2012: Fabian Immler, TUM
   351   Proof of the Daniell-Kolmogorov theorem: the existence of the limit
   352   of projective families.
   353 
   354 * October 2012: Andreas Lochbihler, KIT
   355   Efficient construction of red-black trees from sorted associative
   356   lists.
   357 
   358 * September 2012: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   359   Lattice instances for type option.
   360 
   361 * September 2012: Christian Sternagel, JAIST
   362   Consolidated HOL/Library (theories: Prefix_Order, Sublist, and
   363   Sublist_Order) w.r.t. prefixes, suffixes, and embedding on lists.
   364 
   365 * August 2012: Dmitriy Traytel, Andrei Popescu, Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
   366   New BNF-based (co)datatype package.
   367 
   368 * August 2012: Andrei Popescu and Dmitriy Traytel, TUM
   369   Theories of ordinals and cardinals.
   370 
   371 * July 2012: Makarius Wenzel, Université Paris-Sud / LRI
   372   Advanced support for Isabelle sessions and build management, notably
   373   "isabelle build".
   374 
   375 * June 2012: Felix Kuperjans, Lukas Bulwahn, TUM and Rafal Kolanski, NICTA
   376   Simproc for rewriting set comprehensions into pointfree expressions.
   377 
   378 * May 2012: Andreas Lochbihler, KIT
   379   Theory of almost everywhere constant functions.
   380 
   381 * 2010-2012: Markus Kaiser and Lukas Bulwahn, TUM
   382   Graphview in Scala/Swing.
   383 
   384 
   385 Contributions to Isabelle2012
   386 -----------------------------
   387 
   388 * April 2012: Johannes Hölzl, TUM
   389   Probability: Introduced type to represent measures instead of
   390   locales.
   391 
   392 * April 2012: Johannes Hölzl, Fabian Immler, TUM
   393   Float: Moved to Dyadic rationals to represent floating point numers.
   394 
   395 * April 2012: Thomas Sewell, NICTA and
   396   2010: Sascha Boehme, TUM
   397   Theory HOL/Word/WordBitwise: logic/circuit expansion of bitvector
   398   equalities/inequalities.
   399 
   400 * March 2012: Christian Sternagel, JAIST
   401   Consolidated theory of relation composition.
   402 
   403 * March 2012: Nik Sultana, University of Cambridge
   404   HOL/TPTP parser and import facilities.
   405 
   406 * March 2012: Cezary Kaliszyk, University of Innsbruck and
   407   Alexander Krauss, QAware GmbH
   408   Faster and more scalable Import mechanism for HOL Light proofs.
   409 
   410 * January 2012: Florian Haftmann, TUM, et al.
   411   (Re-)Introduction of the "set" type constructor.
   412 
   413 * 2012: Ondrej Kuncar, TUM
   414   New package Lifting, various improvements and refinements to the
   415   Quotient package.
   416 
   417 * 2011/2012: Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
   418   Various improvements to Sledgehammer, notably: tighter integration
   419   with SPASS, support for more provers (Alt-Ergo, iProver,
   420   iProver-Eq).
   421 
   422 * 2011/2012: Makarius Wenzel, Université Paris-Sud / LRI
   423   Various refinements of local theory infrastructure.
   424   Improvements of Isabelle/Scala layer and Isabelle/jEdit Prover IDE.
   425 
   426 
   427 Contributions to Isabelle2011-1
   428 -------------------------------
   429 
   430 * September 2011: Peter Gammie
   431   Theory HOL/Library/Saturated: numbers with saturated arithmetic.
   432 
   433 * August 2011: Florian Haftmann, Johannes Hölzl and Lars Noschinski, TUM
   434   Refined theory on complete lattices.
   435 
   436 * August 2011: Brian Huffman, Portland State University
   437   Miscellaneous cleanup of Complex_Main and Multivariate_Analysis.
   438 
   439 * June 2011: Brian Huffman, Portland State University
   440   Proof method "countable_datatype" for theory Library/Countable.
   441 
   442 * 2011: Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
   443   Various improvements to Sledgehammer, notably: use of sound
   444   translations, support for more provers (Waldmeister, LEO-II,
   445   Satallax). Further development of Nitpick and 'try' command.
   446 
   447 * 2011: Andreas Lochbihler, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
   448   Theory HOL/Library/Cset_Monad allows do notation for computable sets
   449   (cset) via the generic monad ad-hoc overloading facility.
   450 
   451 * 2011: Johannes Hölzl, Armin Heller, TUM and
   452   Bogdan Grechuk, University of Edinburgh
   453   Theory HOL/Library/Extended_Reals: real numbers extended with plus
   454   and minus infinity.
   455 
   456 * 2011: Makarius Wenzel, Université Paris-Sud / LRI
   457   Various building blocks for Isabelle/Scala layer and Isabelle/jEdit
   458   Prover IDE.
   459 
   460 
   461 Contributions to Isabelle2011
   462 -----------------------------
   463 
   464 * January 2011: Stefan Berghofer, secunet Security Networks AG
   465   HOL-SPARK: an interactive prover back-end for SPARK.
   466 
   467 * October 2010: Bogdan Grechuk, University of Edinburgh
   468   Extended convex analysis in Multivariate Analysis.
   469 
   470 * October 2010: Dmitriy Traytel, TUM
   471   Coercive subtyping via subtype constraints.
   472 
   473 * October 2010: Alexander Krauss, TUM
   474   Command partial_function for function definitions based on complete
   475   partial orders in HOL.
   476 
   477 * September 2010: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   478   Refined concepts for evaluation, i.e., normalization of terms using
   479   different techniques.
   480 
   481 * September 2010: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   482   Code generation for Scala.
   483 
   484 * August 2010: Johannes Hoelzl, Armin Heller, and Robert Himmelmann, TUM
   485   Improved Probability theory in HOL.
   486 
   487 * July 2010: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   488   Reworking and extension of the Imperative HOL framework.
   489 
   490 * July 2010: Alexander Krauss, TUM and Christian Sternagel, University
   491     of Innsbruck
   492   Ad-hoc overloading. Generic do notation for monads.
   493 
   494 
   495 Contributions to Isabelle2009-2
   496 -------------------------------
   497 
   498 * 2009/2010: Stefan Berghofer, Alexander Krauss, and Andreas Schropp, TUM,
   499   Makarius Wenzel, TUM / LRI
   500   Elimination of type classes from proof terms.
   501 
   502 * April 2010: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   503   Reorganization of abstract algebra type classes.
   504 
   505 * April 2010: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   506   Code generation for data representations involving invariants;
   507   various collections avaiable in theories Fset, Dlist, RBT,
   508   Mapping and AssocList.
   509 
   510 * March 2010: Sascha Boehme, TUM
   511   Efficient SHA1 library for Poly/ML.
   512 
   513 * February 2010: Cezary Kaliszyk and Christian Urban, TUM
   514   Quotient type package for Isabelle/HOL.
   515 
   516 
   517 Contributions to Isabelle2009-1
   518 -------------------------------
   519 
   520 * November 2009, Brian Huffman, PSU
   521   New definitional domain package for HOLCF.
   522 
   523 * November 2009: Robert Himmelmann, TUM
   524   Derivation and Brouwer's fixpoint theorem in Multivariate Analysis.
   525 
   526 * November 2009: Stefan Berghofer and Lukas Bulwahn, TUM
   527   A tabled implementation of the reflexive transitive closure.
   528 
   529 * November 2009: Lukas Bulwahn, TUM
   530   Predicate Compiler: a compiler for inductive predicates to
   531   equational specifications.
   532 
   533 * November 2009: Sascha Boehme, TUM and Burkhart Wolff, LRI Paris
   534   HOL-Boogie: an interactive prover back-end for Boogie and VCC.
   535 
   536 * October 2009: Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
   537   Nitpick: yet another counterexample generator for Isabelle/HOL.
   538 
   539 * October 2009: Sascha Boehme, TUM
   540   Extension of SMT method: proof-reconstruction for the SMT solver Z3.
   541 
   542 * October 2009: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   543   Refinement of parts of the HOL datatype package.
   544 
   545 * October 2009: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   546   Generic term styles for term antiquotations.
   547 
   548 * September 2009: Thomas Sewell, NICTA
   549   More efficient HOL/record implementation.
   550 
   551 * September 2009: Sascha Boehme, TUM
   552   SMT method using external SMT solvers.
   553 
   554 * September 2009: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   555   Refinement of sets and lattices.
   556 
   557 * July 2009: Jeremy Avigad and Amine Chaieb
   558   New number theory.
   559 
   560 * July 2009: Philipp Meyer, TUM
   561   HOL/Library/Sum_Of_Squares: functionality to call a remote csdp
   562   prover.
   563 
   564 * July 2009: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   565   New quickcheck implementation using new code generator.
   566 
   567 * July 2009: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   568   HOL/Library/Fset: an explicit type of sets; finite sets ready to use
   569   for code generation.
   570 
   571 * June 2009: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   572   HOL/Library/Tree: search trees implementing mappings, ready to use
   573   for code generation.
   574 
   575 * March 2009: Philipp Meyer, TUM
   576   Minimization tool for results from Sledgehammer.
   577 
   578 
   579 Contributions to Isabelle2009
   580 -----------------------------
   581 
   582 * March 2009: Robert Himmelmann, TUM and Amine Chaieb, University of
   583   Cambridge
   584   Elementary topology in Euclidean space.
   585 
   586 * March 2009: Johannes Hoelzl, TUM
   587   Method "approximation", which proves real valued inequalities by
   588   computation.
   589 
   590 * February 2009: Filip Maric, Univ. of Belgrade
   591   A Serbian theory.
   592 
   593 * February 2009: Jasmin Christian Blanchette, TUM
   594   Misc cleanup of HOL/refute.
   595 
   596 * February 2009: Timothy Bourke, NICTA
   597   New find_consts command.
   598 
   599 * February 2009: Timothy Bourke, NICTA
   600   "solves" criterion for find_theorems and auto_solve option
   601 
   602 * December 2008: Clemens Ballarin, TUM
   603   New locale implementation.
   604 
   605 * December 2008: Armin Heller, TUM and Alexander Krauss, TUM
   606   Method "sizechange" for advanced termination proofs.
   607 
   608 * November 2008: Timothy Bourke, NICTA
   609   Performance improvement (factor 50) for find_theorems.
   610 
   611 * 2008: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   612   Various extensions and restructurings in HOL, improvements
   613   in evaluation mechanisms, new module binding.ML for name bindings.
   614 
   615 * October 2008: Fabian Immler, TUM
   616   ATP manager for Sledgehammer, based on ML threads instead of Posix
   617   processes.  Additional ATP wrappers, including remote SystemOnTPTP
   618   services.
   619 
   620 * September 2008: Stefan Berghofer, TUM and Marc Bezem, Univ. Bergen
   621   Prover for coherent logic.
   622 
   623 * August 2008: Fabian Immler, TUM
   624   Vampire wrapper script for remote SystemOnTPTP service.
   625 
   626 
   627 Contributions to Isabelle2008
   628 -----------------------------
   629 
   630 * 2007/2008:
   631   Alexander Krauss, TUM and Florian Haftmann, TUM and Stefan Berghofer, TUM
   632   HOL library improvements.
   633 
   634 * 2007/2008: Brian Huffman, PSU
   635   HOLCF library improvements.
   636 
   637 * 2007/2008: Stefan Berghofer, TUM
   638   HOL-Nominal package improvements.
   639 
   640 * March 2008: Markus Reiter, TUM
   641   HOL/Library/RBT: red-black trees.
   642 
   643 * February 2008: Alexander Krauss, TUM and Florian Haftmann, TUM and
   644   Lukas Bulwahn, TUM and John Matthews, Galois:
   645   HOL/Library/Imperative_HOL: Haskell-style imperative data structures
   646   for HOL.
   647 
   648 * December 2007: Norbert Schirmer, Uni Saarbruecken
   649   Misc improvements of record package in HOL.
   650 
   651 * December 2007: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   652   Overloading and class instantiation target.
   653 
   654 * December 2007: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   655   New version of primrec package for local theories.
   656 
   657 * December 2007: Alexander Krauss, TUM
   658   Method "induction_scheme" in HOL.
   659 
   660 * November 2007: Peter Lammich, Uni Muenster
   661   HOL-Lattice: some more lemmas.
   662 
   663 
   664 Contributions to Isabelle2007
   665 -----------------------------
   666 
   667 * October 2007: Norbert Schirmer, TUM / Uni Saarbruecken
   668   State Spaces: The Locale Way (in HOL).
   669 
   670 * October 2007: Mark A. Hillebrand, DFKI
   671   Robust sub/superscripts in LaTeX document output.
   672 
   673 * August 2007: Jeremy Dawson, NICTA and Paul Graunke, Galois and Brian
   674     Huffman, PSU and Gerwin Klein, NICTA and John Matthews, Galois
   675   HOL-Word: a library for fixed-size machine words in Isabelle.
   676 
   677 * August 2007: Brian Huffman, PSU
   678   HOL/Library/Boolean_Algebra and HOL/Library/Numeral_Type.
   679 
   680 * June 2007: Amine Chaieb, TUM
   681   Semiring normalization and Groebner Bases.
   682   Support for dense linear orders.
   683 
   684 * June 2007: Joe Hurd, Oxford
   685   Metis theorem-prover.
   686 
   687 * 2007: Kong W. Susanto, Cambridge
   688   HOL: Metis prover integration.
   689 
   690 * 2007: Stefan Berghofer, TUM
   691   HOL: inductive predicates and sets.
   692 
   693 * 2007: Norbert Schirmer, TUM
   694   HOL/record: misc improvements.
   695 
   696 * 2006/2007: Alexander Krauss, TUM
   697   HOL: function package and related theories on termination.
   698 
   699 * 2006/2007: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   700   Pure: generic code generator framework.
   701   Pure: class package.
   702   HOL: theory reorganization, code generator setup.
   703 
   704 * 2006/2007: Christian Urban, TUM and Stefan Berghofer, TUM and
   705     Julien Narboux, TUM
   706   HOL/Nominal package and related tools.
   707 
   708 * November 2006: Lukas Bulwahn, TUM
   709   HOL: method "lexicographic_order" for function package.
   710 
   711 * October 2006: Stefan Hohe, TUM
   712   HOL-Algebra: ideals and quotients over rings.
   713 
   714 * August 2006: Amine Chaieb, TUM
   715   Experimental support for generic reflection and reification in HOL.
   716 
   717 * July 2006: Rafal Kolanski, NICTA
   718   Hex (0xFF) and binary (0b1011) numerals.
   719 
   720 * May 2006: Klaus Aehlig, LMU
   721   Command 'normal_form': normalization by evaluation.
   722 
   723 * May 2006: Amine Chaieb, TUM
   724   HOL-Complex: Ferrante and Rackoff Algorithm for linear real
   725   arithmetic.
   726 
   727 * February 2006: Benjamin Porter, NICTA
   728   HOL and HOL-Complex: generalised mean value theorem, continuum is
   729   not denumerable, harmonic and arithmetic series, and denumerability
   730   of rationals.
   731 
   732 * October 2005: Martin Wildmoser, TUM
   733   Sketch for Isar 'guess' element.
   734 
   735 
   736 Contributions to Isabelle2005
   737 -----------------------------
   738 
   739 * September 2005: Lukas Bulwahn and Bernhard Haeupler, TUM
   740   HOL-Complex: Formalization of Taylor series.
   741 
   742 * September 2005: Stephan Merz, Alwen Tiu, QSL Loria
   743   Components for SAT solver method using zChaff.
   744 
   745 * September 2005: Ning Zhang and Christian Urban, LMU Munich
   746   A Chinese theory.
   747 
   748 * September 2005: Bernhard Haeupler, TUM
   749   Method comm_ring for proving equalities in commutative rings.
   750 
   751 * July/August 2005: Jeremy Avigad, Carnegie Mellon University
   752   Various improvements of the HOL and HOL-Complex library.
   753 
   754 * July 2005: Florian Zuleger, Johannes Hoelzl, and Simon Funke, TUM
   755   Some structured proofs about completeness of real numbers.
   756 
   757 * May 2005: Rafal Kolanski and Gerwin Klein, NICTA
   758   Improved retrieval of facts from theory/proof context.
   759 
   760 * February 2005: Lucas Dixon, University of Edinburgh
   761   Improved subst method.
   762 
   763 * 2005: Brian Huffman, OGI
   764   Various improvements of HOLCF.
   765   Some improvements of the HOL-Complex library.
   766 
   767 * 2005: Claire Quigley and Jia Meng, University of Cambridge
   768   Some support for asynchronous communication with external provers
   769   (experimental).
   770 
   771 * 2005: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   772   Contributions to document 'sugar'.
   773   Various ML combinators, notably linear functional transformations.
   774   Some cleanup of ML legacy.
   775   Additional antiquotations.
   776   Improved Isabelle web site.
   777 
   778 * 2004/2005: David Aspinall, University of Edinburgh
   779   Various elements of XML and PGIP based communication with user
   780   interfaces (experimental).
   781 
   782 * 2004/2005: Gerwin Klein, NICTA
   783   Contributions to document 'sugar'.
   784   Improved Isabelle web site.
   785   Improved HTML presentation of theories.
   786 
   787 * 2004/2005: Clemens Ballarin, TUM
   788   Provers: tools for transitive relations and quasi orders.
   789   Improved version of locales, notably interpretation of locales.
   790   Improved version of HOL-Algebra.
   791 
   792 * 2004/2005: Amine Chaieb, TUM
   793   Improved version of HOL presburger method.
   794 
   795 * 2004/2005: Steven Obua, TUM
   796   Improved version of HOL/Import, support for HOL-Light.
   797   Improved version of HOL-Complex-Matrix.
   798   Pure/defs: more sophisticated checks on well-formedness of overloading.
   799   Pure/Tools: an experimental evaluator for lambda terms.
   800 
   801 * 2004/2005: Norbert Schirmer, TUM
   802   Contributions to document 'sugar'.
   803   Improved version of HOL/record.
   804 
   805 * 2004/2005: Sebastian Skalberg, TUM
   806   Improved version of HOL/Import.
   807   Some internal ML reorganizations.
   808 
   809 * 2004/2005: Tjark Weber, TUM
   810   SAT solver method using zChaff.
   811   Improved version of HOL/refute.
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