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     5 
     6 Contributions to Isabelle2020
     7 -----------------------------
     8 
     9 * February 2020: E. Gunther, M. Pagano and P. Sánchez Terraf
    10   Simplified, generalised version of ZF/Constructible.
    11 
    12 * January 2020: LC Paulson
    13   The full finite Ramsey's theorem and elements of finite and infinite
    14   Ramsey theory.
    15 
    16 * December 2019: Basil Fürer, Andreas Lochbihler, Joshua Schneider, Dmitriy
    17   Traytel
    18   Extension of lift_bnf to support quotient types.
    19 
    20 * November 2019: Peter Zeller, TU Kaiserslautern
    21   Update of Isabelle/VSCode to WebviewPanel API.
    22 
    23 * October..December 2019: Makarius Wenzel
    24   Isabelle/Phabrictor server setup, including Linux platform support in
    25   Isabelle/Scala. Client-side tool "isabelle hg_setup".
    26 
    27 * October 2019: Maximilian Schäffeler
    28   Port of the HOL Light decision procedure for metric spaces.
    29 
    30 * October 2019: Makarius Wenzel
    31   More scalable Isabelle dump and underlying headless PIDE session.
    32 
    33 * August 2019: Makarius Wenzel
    34   Better support for proof terms in Isabelle/Pure, notably via method
    35   combinator SUBPROOFS (ML) and "subproofs" (Isar).
    36 
    37 * July 2019: Alexander Krauss, Makarius Wenzel
    38   Minimal support for a soft-type system within the Isabelle logical
    39   framework.
    40 
    41 
    42 Contributions to Isabelle2019
    43 -----------------------------
    44 
    45 * April 2019: LC Paulson
    46   Homology and supporting lemmas on topology and group theory
    47 
    48 * April 2019: Paulo de Vilhena and Martin Baillon
    49   Group theory developments, esp. algebraic closure of a field
    50 
    51 * February/March 2019: Makarius Wenzel
    52   Stateless management of export artifacts in the Isabelle/HOL code generator.
    53 
    54 * February 2019: Manuel Eberl
    55   Exponentiation by squaring, used to implement "power" in monoid_mult and
    56   fast modular exponentiation.
    57 
    58 * February 2019: Manuel Eberl
    59   Carmichael's function, primitive roots in residue rings, more properties of
    60   the order in residue rings.
    61 
    62 * February 2019: Jeremy Sylvestre
    63   Formal Laurent Series and overhaul of Formal power series.
    64 
    65 * January 2019: Florian Haftmann
    66   Clarified syntax and congruence rules for big operators on sets involving
    67   the image operator.
    68 
    69 * January 2019: Florian Haftmann
    70   Renovation of code generation, particularly export into session data and
    71   proper strings and proper integers based on zarith for OCaml.
    72 
    73 * January 2019: Andreas Lochbihler
    74   New implementation for case_of_simps based on Code_Lazy's pattern matching
    75   elimination algorithm.
    76 
    77 * November/December 2018: Makarius Wenzel
    78   Support for Isabelle/Haskell applications of Isabelle/PIDE.
    79 
    80 * August/September 2018: Makarius Wenzel
    81   Improvements of headless Isabelle/PIDE session and server, and systematic
    82   exports from theory documents.
    83 
    84 * December 2018: Florian Haftmann
    85   Generic executable sorting algorithms based on executable comparators.
    86 
    87 * October 2018: Mathias Fleury
    88   Proof reconstruction for the SMT solver veriT in the smt method.
    89 
    90 
    91 Contributions to Isabelle2018
    92 -----------------------------
    93 
    94 * July 2018: Manuel Eberl
    95   "real_asymp" proof method for automatic proofs of real limits, "Big-O"
    96   statements, etc.
    97 
    98 * June 2018: Fabian Immler
    99   More tool support for HOL-Types_To_Sets.
   100 
   101 * June 2018: Martin Baillon and Paulo Emílio de Vilhena
   102   A variety of contributions to HOL-Algebra.
   103 
   104 * June 2018: Wenda Li
   105   New/strengthened results involving analysis, topology, etc.
   106 
   107 * May/June 2018: Makarius Wenzel
   108   System infrastructure to export blobs as theory presentation, and to dump
   109   PIDE database content in batch mode.
   110 
   111 * May 2018: Manuel Eberl
   112   Landau symbols and asymptotic equivalence (moved from the AFP).
   113 
   114 * May 2018: Jose Divasón (Universidad de la Rioja),
   115   Jesús Aransay (Universidad de la Rioja), Johannes Hölzl (VU Amsterdam),
   116   Fabian Immler (TUM)
   117   Generalizations in the formalization of linear algebra.
   118 
   119 * May 2018: Florian Haftmann
   120   Consolidation of string-like types in HOL.
   121 
   122 * May 2018: Andreas Lochbihler (Digital Asset),
   123   Pascal Stoop (ETH Zurich)
   124   Code generation with lazy evaluation semantics.
   125 
   126 * March 2018: Florian Haftmann
   127   Abstract bit operations push_bit, take_bit, drop_bit, alongside with an
   128   algebraic foundation for bit strings and word types in HOL-ex.
   129 
   130 * March 2018: Viorel Preoteasa
   131   Generalisation of complete_distrib_lattice
   132 
   133 * February 2018: Wenda Li
   134   A unified definition for the order of zeros and poles. Improved reasoning
   135   around non-essential singularities.
   136 
   137 * January 2018: Sebastien Gouezel
   138   Various small additions to HOL-Analysis
   139 
   140 * December 2017: Jan Gilcher, Andreas Lochbihler, Dmitriy Traytel
   141   A new conditional parametricity prover.
   142 
   143 * October 2017: Alexander Maletzky
   144   Derivation of axiom "iff" in theory HOL.HOL from the other axioms.
   145 
   146 
   147 Contributions to Isabelle2017
   148 -----------------------------
   149 
   150 * September 2017: Lawrence Paulson
   151   HOL-Analysis, e.g. simplicial complexes, Jordan Curve Theorem.
   152 
   153 * September 2017: Jasmin Blanchette
   154   Further integration of Nunchaku model finder.
   155 
   156 * November 2016 - June 2017: Makarius Wenzel
   157   New Isabelle/VSCode, with underlying restructuring of Isabelle/PIDE.
   158 
   159 * 2017: Makarius Wenzel
   160   Session-qualified theory names (theory imports and ROOT files).
   161   Prover IDE improvements.
   162   Support for SQL databases in Isabelle/Scala: SQLite and PostgreSQL.
   163 
   164 * August 2017: Andreas Lochbihler, ETH Zurich
   165   type of unordered pairs (HOL-Library.Uprod)
   166 
   167 * August 2017: Manuel Eberl, TUM
   168   HOL-Analysis: infinite products over natural numbers,
   169   infinite sums over arbitrary sets, connection between formal
   170   power series and analytic complex functions
   171 
   172 * March 2017: Alasdair Armstrong, University of Sheffield and
   173   Simon Foster, University of York
   174   Fixed-point theory and Galois Connections in HOL-Algebra.
   175 
   176 * February 2017: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   177   Statically embedded computations implemented by generated code.
   178 
   179 
   180 Contributions to Isabelle2016-1
   181 -------------------------------
   182 
   183 * December 2016: Ondřej Kunčar, TUM
   184   Types_To_Sets: experimental extension of Higher-Order Logic to allow
   185   translation of types to sets.
   186 
   187 * October 2016: Jasmin Blanchette
   188   Integration of Nunchaku model finder.
   189 
   190 * October 2016: Jaime Mendizabal Roche, TUM
   191   Ported remaining theories of session Old_Number_Theory to the new
   192   Number_Theory and removed Old_Number_Theory.
   193 
   194 * September 2016: Sascha Boehme
   195   Proof method "argo" based on SMT technology for a combination of
   196   quantifier-free propositional logic, equality and linear real arithmetic
   197 
   198 * July 2016: Daniel Stuewe
   199   Height-size proofs in HOL-Data_Structures.
   200 
   201 * July 2016: Manuel Eberl, TUM
   202   Algebraic foundation for primes; generalization from nat to general
   203   factorial rings.
   204 
   205 * June 2016: Andreas Lochbihler, ETH Zurich
   206   Formalisation of discrete subprobability distributions.
   207 
   208 * June 2016: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   209   Improvements to code generation: optional timing measurements, more succint
   210   closures for static evaluation, less ambiguities concering Scala implicits.
   211 
   212 * May 2016: Manuel Eberl, TUM
   213   Code generation for Probability Mass Functions.
   214 
   215 * March 2016: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   216   Abstract factorial rings with unique factorization.
   217 
   218 * March 2016: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   219   Reworking of the HOL char type as special case of a finite numeral type.
   220 
   221 * March 2016: Andreas Lochbihler, ETH Zurich
   222   Reasoning support for monotonicity, continuity and admissibility in
   223   chain-complete partial orders.
   224 
   225 * February - October 2016: Makarius Wenzel
   226   Prover IDE improvements.
   227   ML IDE improvements: bootstrap of Pure.
   228   Isar language consolidation.
   229   Notational modernization of HOL.
   230   Tight Poly/ML integration.
   231   More Isabelle/Scala system programming modules (e.g. SSH, Mercurial).
   232 
   233 * Winter 2016: Jasmin Blanchette, Inria & LORIA & MPII, Aymeric Bouzy,
   234   Ecole polytechnique, Andreas Lochbihler, ETH Zurich, Andrei Popescu,
   235   Middlesex University, and Dmitriy Traytel, ETH Zurich
   236   'corec' command and friends.
   237 
   238 * January 2016: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   239   Abolition of compound operators INFIMUM and SUPREMUM for complete lattices.
   240 
   241 
   242 Contributions to Isabelle2016
   243 -----------------------------
   244 
   245 * Winter 2016: Manuel Eberl, TUM
   246   Support for real exponentiation ("powr") in the "approximation" method.
   247   (This was removed in Isabelle 2015 due to a changed definition of "powr".)
   248 
   249 * Summer 2015 - Winter 2016: Lawrence C Paulson, Cambridge
   250   General, homology form of Cauchy's integral theorem and supporting material
   251   (ported from HOL Light).
   252 
   253 * Winter 2015/16: Gerwin Klein, NICTA
   254   New print_record command.
   255 
   256 * May - December 2015: Makarius Wenzel
   257   Prover IDE improvements.
   258   More Isar language elements.
   259   Document language refinements.
   260   Poly/ML debugger integration.
   261   Improved multi-platform and multi-architecture support.
   262 
   263 * Winter 2015: Manuel Eberl, TUM
   264   The radius of convergence of power series and various summability tests.
   265   Harmonic numbers and the Euler-Mascheroni constant.
   266   The Generalised Binomial Theorem.
   267   The complex and real Gamma/log-Gamma/Digamma/Polygamma functions and their
   268   most important properties.
   269 
   270 * Autumn 2015: Manuel Eberl, TUM
   271   Proper definition of division (with remainder) for formal power series;
   272   Euclidean Ring and GCD instance for formal power series.
   273 
   274 * Autumn 2015: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   275   Rewrite definitions for global interpretations and sublocale declarations.
   276 
   277 * Autumn 2015: Andreas Lochbihler
   278   Bourbaki-Witt fixpoint theorem for increasing functions on chain-complete
   279   partial orders.
   280 
   281 * Autumn 2015: Chaitanya Mangla, Lawrence C Paulson, and Manuel Eberl
   282   A large number of additional binomial identities.
   283 
   284 * Summer 2015: Daniel Matichuk, NICTA and Makarius Wenzel
   285   Isar subgoal command for proof structure within unstructured proof scripts.
   286 
   287 * Summer 2015: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   288   Generic partial division in rings as inverse operation of multiplication.
   289 
   290 * Summer 2015: Manuel Eberl and Florian Haftmann, TUM
   291   Type class hierarchy with common algebraic notions of integral (semi)domains
   292   like units, associated elements and normalization wrt. units.
   293 
   294 * Summer 2015: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   295   Fundamentals of abstract type class for factorial rings.
   296 
   297 * Summer 2015: Julian Biendarra, TUM and Dmitriy Traytel, ETH Zurich
   298   Command to lift a BNF structure on the raw type to the abstract type for
   299   typedefs.
   300 
   301 * Summer 2014: Jeremy Avigad, Luke Serafin, CMU, and Johannes Hölzl, TUM
   302   Proof of the central limit theorem: includes weak convergence,
   303   characteristic functions, and Levy's uniqueness and continuity theorem.
   304 
   305 
   306 Contributions to Isabelle2015
   307 -----------------------------
   308 
   309 * 2014/2015: Daniel Matichuk, Toby Murray, NICTA and Makarius Wenzel
   310   The Eisbach proof method language and "match" method.
   311 
   312 * Winter 2014 and Spring 2015: Ondrej Kuncar, TUM
   313   Extension of lift_definition to execute lifted functions that have as a
   314   return type a datatype containing a subtype.
   315 
   316 * March 2015: Jasmin Blanchette, Inria & LORIA & MPII, Mathias Fleury, MPII,
   317   and Dmitriy Traytel, TUM
   318   More multiset theorems, syntax, and operations.
   319 
   320 * December 2014: Johannes Hölzl, Manuel Eberl, Sudeep Kanav, TUM, and
   321   Jeremy Avigad, Luke Serafin, CMU
   322   Various integration theorems: mostly integration on intervals and
   323   substitution.
   324 
   325 * September 2014: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   326   Lexicographic order on functions and
   327   sum/product over function bodies.
   328 
   329 * August 2014: Andreas Lochbihler, ETH Zurich
   330   Test infrastructure for executing generated code in target languages.
   331 
   332 * August 2014: Manuel Eberl, TUM
   333   Generic euclidean algorithms for GCD et al.
   334 
   335 
   336 Contributions to Isabelle2014
   337 -----------------------------
   338 
   339 * July 2014: Thomas Sewell, NICTA
   340   Preserve equality hypotheses in "clarify" and friends. New
   341   "hypsubst_thin" method configuration option.
   342 
   343 * Summer 2014: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   344   Consolidation and generalization of facts concerning (abelian)
   345   semigroups and monoids, particularly products (resp. sums) on
   346   finite sets.
   347 
   348 * Summer 2014: Mathias Fleury, ENS Rennes, and Albert Steckermeier, TUM
   349   Work on exotic automatic theorem provers for Sledgehammer (LEO-II,
   350   veriT, Waldmeister, etc.).
   351 
   352 * June 2014: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   353   Internal reorganisation of the local theory / named target stack.
   354 
   355 * June 2014: Sudeep Kanav, TUM, Jeremy Avigad, CMU, and Johannes Hölzl, TUM
   356   Various properties of exponentially, Erlang, and normal distributed
   357   random variables.
   358 
   359 * May 2014: Cezary Kaliszyk, University of Innsbruck, and
   360   Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
   361   SML-based engines for MaSh.
   362 
   363 * March 2014: René Thiemann
   364   Improved code generation for multisets.
   365 
   366 * February 2014: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   367   Permanent interpretation inside theory, locale and class targets
   368   with mixin definitions.
   369 
   370 * Spring 2014: Lawrence C Paulson, Cambridge
   371   Theory Complex_Basic_Analysis. Tidying up Number_Theory vs Old_Number_Theory
   372 
   373 * Winter 2013 and Spring 2014: Ondrej Kuncar, TUM
   374   Various improvements to Lifting/Transfer, integration with the BNF package.
   375 
   376 * Winter 2013 and Spring 2014: Makarius Wenzel, Université Paris-Sud / LRI
   377   Improvements of Isabelle/Scala and Isabelle/jEdit Prover IDE.
   378 
   379 * Fall 2013 and Winter 2014: Martin Desharnais, Lorenz Panny,
   380   Dmitriy Traytel, and Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
   381   Various improvements to the BNF-based (co)datatype package,
   382   including a more polished "primcorec" command, optimizations, and
   383   integration in the "HOL" session.
   384 
   385 * Winter/Spring 2014: Sascha Boehme, QAware GmbH, and
   386   Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
   387   "SMT2" module and "smt2" proof method, based on SMT-LIB 2 and
   388   Z3 4.3.
   389 
   390 * January 2014: Lars Hupel, TUM
   391   An improved, interactive simplifier trace with integration into the
   392   Isabelle/jEdit Prover IDE.
   393 
   394 * December 2013: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   395   Consolidation of abstract interpretations concerning min and max.
   396 
   397 * November 2013: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   398   Abolition of negative numeral literals in the logic.
   399 
   400 
   401 Contributions to Isabelle2013-1
   402 -------------------------------
   403 
   404 * September 2013: Lars Noschinski, TUM
   405   Conversion between function definitions as list of equations and
   406   case expressions in HOL.
   407   New library Simps_Case_Conv with commands case_of_simps,
   408   simps_of_case.
   409 
   410 * September 2013: Nik Sultana, University of Cambridge
   411   Improvements to HOL/TPTP parser and import facilities.
   412 
   413 * September 2013: Johannes Hölzl and Dmitriy Traytel, TUM
   414   New "coinduction" method (residing in HOL-BNF) to avoid boilerplate.
   415 
   416 * Summer 2013: Makarius Wenzel, Université Paris-Sud / LRI
   417   Improvements of Isabelle/Scala and Isabelle/jEdit Prover IDE.
   418 
   419 * Summer 2013: Manuel Eberl, TUM
   420   Generation of elimination rules in the function package.
   421   New command "fun_cases".
   422 
   423 * Summer 2013: Christian Sternagel, JAIST
   424   Improved support for ad hoc overloading of constants, including
   425   documentation and examples.
   426 
   427 * Spring and Summer 2013: Lorenz Panny, Dmitriy Traytel, and
   428   Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
   429   Various improvements to the BNF-based (co)datatype package, including
   430   "primrec_new" and "primcorec" commands and a compatibility layer.
   431 
   432 * Spring and Summer 2013: Ondrej Kuncar, TUM
   433   Various improvements of Lifting and Transfer packages.
   434 
   435 * Spring 2013: Brian Huffman, Galois Inc.
   436   Improvements of the Transfer package.
   437 
   438 * Summer 2013: Daniel Kühlwein, ICIS, Radboud University Nijmegen
   439   Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
   440   Various improvements to MaSh, including a server mode.
   441 
   442 * First half of 2013: Steffen Smolka, TUM
   443   Further improvements to Sledgehammer's Isar proof generator.
   444 
   445 * May 2013: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   446   Ephemeral interpretation in local theories.
   447 
   448 * May 2013: Lukas Bulwahn and Nicolai Schaffroth, TUM
   449   Spec_Check: A Quickcheck tool for Isabelle/ML.
   450 
   451 * April 2013: Stefan Berghofer, secunet Security Networks AG
   452   Dmitriy Traytel, TUM
   453   Makarius Wenzel, Université Paris-Sud / LRI
   454   Case translations as a separate check phase independent of the
   455   datatype package.
   456 
   457 * March 2013: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   458   Reform of "big operators" on sets.
   459 
   460 * March 2013: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   461   Algebraic locale hierarchy for orderings and (semi)lattices.
   462 
   463 * February 2013: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   464   Reworking and consolidation of code generation for target language
   465   numerals.
   466 
   467 * February 2013: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   468   Sieve of Eratosthenes.
   469 
   470 
   471 Contributions to Isabelle2013
   472 -----------------------------
   473 
   474 * 2012: Makarius Wenzel, Université Paris-Sud / LRI
   475   Improvements of Isabelle/Scala and Isabelle/jEdit Prover IDE.
   476 
   477 * Fall 2012: Daniel Kühlwein, ICIS, Radboud University Nijmegen
   478   Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
   479   Implemented Machine Learning for Sledgehammer (MaSh).
   480 
   481 * Fall 2012: Steffen Smolka, TUM
   482   Various improvements to Sledgehammer's Isar proof generator,
   483   including a smart type annotation algorithm and proof shrinking.
   484 
   485 * December 2012: Alessandro Coglio, Kestrel
   486   Contributions to HOL's Lattice library.
   487 
   488 * November 2012: Fabian Immler, TUM
   489   "Symbols" dockable for Isabelle/jEdit.
   490 
   491 * November 2012: Fabian Immler, TUM
   492   Proof of the Daniell-Kolmogorov theorem: the existence of the limit
   493   of projective families.
   494 
   495 * October 2012: Andreas Lochbihler, KIT
   496   Efficient construction of red-black trees from sorted associative
   497   lists.
   498 
   499 * September 2012: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   500   Lattice instances for type option.
   501 
   502 * September 2012: Christian Sternagel, JAIST
   503   Consolidated HOL/Library (theories: Prefix_Order, Sublist, and
   504   Sublist_Order) w.r.t. prefixes, suffixes, and embedding on lists.
   505 
   506 * August 2012: Dmitriy Traytel, Andrei Popescu, Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
   507   New BNF-based (co)datatype package.
   508 
   509 * August 2012: Andrei Popescu and Dmitriy Traytel, TUM
   510   Theories of ordinals and cardinals.
   511 
   512 * July 2012: Makarius Wenzel, Université Paris-Sud / LRI
   513   Advanced support for Isabelle sessions and build management, notably
   514   "isabelle build".
   515 
   516 * June 2012: Felix Kuperjans, Lukas Bulwahn, TUM and Rafal Kolanski, NICTA
   517   Simproc for rewriting set comprehensions into pointfree expressions.
   518 
   519 * May 2012: Andreas Lochbihler, KIT
   520   Theory of almost everywhere constant functions.
   521 
   522 * 2010-2012: Markus Kaiser and Lukas Bulwahn, TUM
   523   Graphview in Scala/Swing.
   524 
   525 
   526 Contributions to Isabelle2012
   527 -----------------------------
   528 
   529 * April 2012: Johannes Hölzl, TUM
   530   Probability: Introduced type to represent measures instead of
   531   locales.
   532 
   533 * April 2012: Johannes Hölzl, Fabian Immler, TUM
   534   Float: Moved to Dyadic rationals to represent floating point numers.
   535 
   536 * April 2012: Thomas Sewell, NICTA and
   537   2010: Sascha Boehme, TUM
   538   Theory HOL/Word/WordBitwise: logic/circuit expansion of bitvector
   539   equalities/inequalities.
   540 
   541 * March 2012: Christian Sternagel, JAIST
   542   Consolidated theory of relation composition.
   543 
   544 * March 2012: Nik Sultana, University of Cambridge
   545   HOL/TPTP parser and import facilities.
   546 
   547 * March 2012: Cezary Kaliszyk, University of Innsbruck and
   548   Alexander Krauss, QAware GmbH
   549   Faster and more scalable Import mechanism for HOL Light proofs.
   550 
   551 * January 2012: Florian Haftmann, TUM, et al.
   552   (Re-)Introduction of the "set" type constructor.
   553 
   554 * 2012: Ondrej Kuncar, TUM
   555   New package Lifting, various improvements and refinements to the
   556   Quotient package.
   557 
   558 * 2011/2012: Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
   559   Various improvements to Sledgehammer, notably: tighter integration
   560   with SPASS, support for more provers (Alt-Ergo, iProver,
   561   iProver-Eq).
   562 
   563 * 2011/2012: Makarius Wenzel, Université Paris-Sud / LRI
   564   Various refinements of local theory infrastructure.
   565   Improvements of Isabelle/Scala layer and Isabelle/jEdit Prover IDE.
   566 
   567 
   568 Contributions to Isabelle2011-1
   569 -------------------------------
   570 
   571 * September 2011: Peter Gammie
   572   Theory HOL/Library/Saturated: numbers with saturated arithmetic.
   573 
   574 * August 2011: Florian Haftmann, Johannes Hölzl and Lars Noschinski, TUM
   575   Refined theory on complete lattices.
   576 
   577 * August 2011: Brian Huffman, Portland State University
   578   Miscellaneous cleanup of Complex_Main and Multivariate_Analysis.
   579 
   580 * June 2011: Brian Huffman, Portland State University
   581   Proof method "countable_datatype" for theory Library/Countable.
   582 
   583 * 2011: Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
   584   Various improvements to Sledgehammer, notably: use of sound
   585   translations, support for more provers (Waldmeister, LEO-II,
   586   Satallax). Further development of Nitpick and 'try' command.
   587 
   588 * 2011: Andreas Lochbihler, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
   589   Theory HOL/Library/Cset_Monad allows do notation for computable sets
   590   (cset) via the generic monad ad-hoc overloading facility.
   591 
   592 * 2011: Johannes Hölzl, Armin Heller, TUM and
   593   Bogdan Grechuk, University of Edinburgh
   594   Theory HOL/Library/Extended_Reals: real numbers extended with plus
   595   and minus infinity.
   596 
   597 * 2011: Makarius Wenzel, Université Paris-Sud / LRI
   598   Various building blocks for Isabelle/Scala layer and Isabelle/jEdit
   599   Prover IDE.
   600 
   601 
   602 Contributions to Isabelle2011
   603 -----------------------------
   604 
   605 * January 2011: Stefan Berghofer, secunet Security Networks AG
   606   HOL-SPARK: an interactive prover back-end for SPARK.
   607 
   608 * October 2010: Bogdan Grechuk, University of Edinburgh
   609   Extended convex analysis in Multivariate Analysis.
   610 
   611 * October 2010: Dmitriy Traytel, TUM
   612   Coercive subtyping via subtype constraints.
   613 
   614 * October 2010: Alexander Krauss, TUM
   615   Command partial_function for function definitions based on complete
   616   partial orders in HOL.
   617 
   618 * September 2010: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   619   Refined concepts for evaluation, i.e., normalization of terms using
   620   different techniques.
   621 
   622 * September 2010: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   623   Code generation for Scala.
   624 
   625 * August 2010: Johannes Hoelzl, Armin Heller, and Robert Himmelmann, TUM
   626   Improved Probability theory in HOL.
   627 
   628 * July 2010: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   629   Reworking and extension of the Imperative HOL framework.
   630 
   631 * July 2010: Alexander Krauss, TUM and Christian Sternagel, University
   632     of Innsbruck
   633   Ad-hoc overloading. Generic do notation for monads.
   634 
   635 
   636 Contributions to Isabelle2009-2
   637 -------------------------------
   638 
   639 * 2009/2010: Stefan Berghofer, Alexander Krauss, and Andreas Schropp, TUM,
   640   Makarius Wenzel, TUM / LRI
   641   Elimination of type classes from proof terms.
   642 
   643 * April 2010: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   644   Reorganization of abstract algebra type classes.
   645 
   646 * April 2010: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   647   Code generation for data representations involving invariants;
   648   various collections avaiable in theories Fset, Dlist, RBT,
   649   Mapping and AssocList.
   650 
   651 * March 2010: Sascha Boehme, TUM
   652   Efficient SHA1 library for Poly/ML.
   653 
   654 * February 2010: Cezary Kaliszyk and Christian Urban, TUM
   655   Quotient type package for Isabelle/HOL.
   656 
   657 
   658 Contributions to Isabelle2009-1
   659 -------------------------------
   660 
   661 * November 2009, Brian Huffman, PSU
   662   New definitional domain package for HOLCF.
   663 
   664 * November 2009: Robert Himmelmann, TUM
   665   Derivation and Brouwer's fixpoint theorem in Multivariate Analysis.
   666 
   667 * November 2009: Stefan Berghofer and Lukas Bulwahn, TUM
   668   A tabled implementation of the reflexive transitive closure.
   669 
   670 * November 2009: Lukas Bulwahn, TUM
   671   Predicate Compiler: a compiler for inductive predicates to
   672   equational specifications.
   673 
   674 * November 2009: Sascha Boehme, TUM and Burkhart Wolff, LRI Paris
   675   HOL-Boogie: an interactive prover back-end for Boogie and VCC.
   676 
   677 * October 2009: Jasmin Blanchette, TUM
   678   Nitpick: yet another counterexample generator for Isabelle/HOL.
   679 
   680 * October 2009: Sascha Boehme, TUM
   681   Extension of SMT method: proof-reconstruction for the SMT solver Z3.
   682 
   683 * October 2009: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   684   Refinement of parts of the HOL datatype package.
   685 
   686 * October 2009: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   687   Generic term styles for term antiquotations.
   688 
   689 * September 2009: Thomas Sewell, NICTA
   690   More efficient HOL/record implementation.
   691 
   692 * September 2009: Sascha Boehme, TUM
   693   SMT method using external SMT solvers.
   694 
   695 * September 2009: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   696   Refinement of sets and lattices.
   697 
   698 * July 2009: Jeremy Avigad and Amine Chaieb
   699   New number theory.
   700 
   701 * July 2009: Philipp Meyer, TUM
   702   HOL/Library/Sum_Of_Squares: functionality to call a remote csdp
   703   prover.
   704 
   705 * July 2009: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   706   New quickcheck implementation using new code generator.
   707 
   708 * July 2009: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   709   HOL/Library/Fset: an explicit type of sets; finite sets ready to use
   710   for code generation.
   711 
   712 * June 2009: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   713   HOL/Library/Tree: search trees implementing mappings, ready to use
   714   for code generation.
   715 
   716 * March 2009: Philipp Meyer, TUM
   717   Minimization tool for results from Sledgehammer.
   718 
   719 
   720 Contributions to Isabelle2009
   721 -----------------------------
   722 
   723 * March 2009: Robert Himmelmann, TUM and Amine Chaieb, University of
   724   Cambridge
   725   Elementary topology in Euclidean space.
   726 
   727 * March 2009: Johannes Hoelzl, TUM
   728   Method "approximation", which proves real valued inequalities by
   729   computation.
   730 
   731 * February 2009: Filip Maric, Univ. of Belgrade
   732   A Serbian theory.
   733 
   734 * February 2009: Jasmin Christian Blanchette, TUM
   735   Misc cleanup of HOL/refute.
   736 
   737 * February 2009: Timothy Bourke, NICTA
   738   New find_consts command.
   739 
   740 * February 2009: Timothy Bourke, NICTA
   741   "solves" criterion for find_theorems and auto_solve option
   742 
   743 * December 2008: Clemens Ballarin, TUM
   744   New locale implementation.
   745 
   746 * December 2008: Armin Heller, TUM and Alexander Krauss, TUM
   747   Method "sizechange" for advanced termination proofs.
   748 
   749 * November 2008: Timothy Bourke, NICTA
   750   Performance improvement (factor 50) for find_theorems.
   751 
   752 * 2008: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   753   Various extensions and restructurings in HOL, improvements
   754   in evaluation mechanisms, new module binding.ML for name bindings.
   755 
   756 * October 2008: Fabian Immler, TUM
   757   ATP manager for Sledgehammer, based on ML threads instead of Posix
   758   processes.  Additional ATP wrappers, including remote SystemOnTPTP
   759   services.
   760 
   761 * September 2008: Stefan Berghofer, TUM and Marc Bezem, Univ. Bergen
   762   Prover for coherent logic.
   763 
   764 * August 2008: Fabian Immler, TUM
   765   Vampire wrapper script for remote SystemOnTPTP service.
   766 
   767 
   768 Contributions to Isabelle2008
   769 -----------------------------
   770 
   771 * 2007/2008:
   772   Alexander Krauss, TUM and Florian Haftmann, TUM and Stefan Berghofer, TUM
   773   HOL library improvements.
   774 
   775 * 2007/2008: Brian Huffman, PSU
   776   HOLCF library improvements.
   777 
   778 * 2007/2008: Stefan Berghofer, TUM
   779   HOL-Nominal package improvements.
   780 
   781 * March 2008: Markus Reiter, TUM
   782   HOL/Library/RBT: red-black trees.
   783 
   784 * February 2008: Alexander Krauss, TUM and Florian Haftmann, TUM and
   785   Lukas Bulwahn, TUM and John Matthews, Galois:
   786   HOL/Library/Imperative_HOL: Haskell-style imperative data structures
   787   for HOL.
   788 
   789 * December 2007: Norbert Schirmer, Uni Saarbruecken
   790   Misc improvements of record package in HOL.
   791 
   792 * December 2007: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   793   Overloading and class instantiation target.
   794 
   795 * December 2007: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   796   New version of primrec package for local theories.
   797 
   798 * December 2007: Alexander Krauss, TUM
   799   Method "induction_scheme" in HOL.
   800 
   801 * November 2007: Peter Lammich, Uni Muenster
   802   HOL-Lattice: some more lemmas.
   803 
   804 
   805 Contributions to Isabelle2007
   806 -----------------------------
   807 
   808 * October 2007: Norbert Schirmer, TUM / Uni Saarbruecken
   809   State Spaces: The Locale Way (in HOL).
   810 
   811 * October 2007: Mark A. Hillebrand, DFKI
   812   Robust sub/superscripts in LaTeX document output.
   813 
   814 * August 2007: Jeremy Dawson, NICTA and Paul Graunke, Galois and Brian
   815     Huffman, PSU and Gerwin Klein, NICTA and John Matthews, Galois
   816   HOL-Word: a library for fixed-size machine words in Isabelle.
   817 
   818 * August 2007: Brian Huffman, PSU
   819   HOL/Library/Boolean_Algebra and HOL/Library/Numeral_Type.
   820 
   821 * June 2007: Amine Chaieb, TUM
   822   Semiring normalization and Groebner Bases.
   823   Support for dense linear orders.
   824 
   825 * June 2007: Joe Hurd, Oxford
   826   Metis theorem-prover.
   827 
   828 * 2007: Kong W. Susanto, Cambridge
   829   HOL: Metis prover integration.
   830 
   831 * 2007: Stefan Berghofer, TUM
   832   HOL: inductive predicates and sets.
   833 
   834 * 2007: Norbert Schirmer, TUM
   835   HOL/record: misc improvements.
   836 
   837 * 2006/2007: Alexander Krauss, TUM
   838   HOL: function package and related theories on termination.
   839 
   840 * 2006/2007: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   841   Pure: generic code generator framework.
   842   Pure: class package.
   843   HOL: theory reorganization, code generator setup.
   844 
   845 * 2006/2007: Christian Urban, TUM and Stefan Berghofer, TUM and
   846     Julien Narboux, TUM
   847   HOL/Nominal package and related tools.
   848 
   849 * November 2006: Lukas Bulwahn, TUM
   850   HOL: method "lexicographic_order" for function package.
   851 
   852 * October 2006: Stefan Hohe, TUM
   853   HOL-Algebra: ideals and quotients over rings.
   854 
   855 * August 2006: Amine Chaieb, TUM
   856   Experimental support for generic reflection and reification in HOL.
   857 
   858 * July 2006: Rafal Kolanski, NICTA
   859   Hex (0xFF) and binary (0b1011) numerals.
   860 
   861 * May 2006: Klaus Aehlig, LMU
   862   Command 'normal_form': normalization by evaluation.
   863 
   864 * May 2006: Amine Chaieb, TUM
   865   HOL-Complex: Ferrante and Rackoff Algorithm for linear real
   866   arithmetic.
   867 
   868 * February 2006: Benjamin Porter, NICTA
   869   HOL and HOL-Complex: generalised mean value theorem, continuum is
   870   not denumerable, harmonic and arithmetic series, and denumerability
   871   of rationals.
   872 
   873 * October 2005: Martin Wildmoser, TUM
   874   Sketch for Isar 'guess' element.
   875 
   876 
   877 Contributions to Isabelle2005
   878 -----------------------------
   879 
   880 * September 2005: Lukas Bulwahn and Bernhard Haeupler, TUM
   881   HOL-Complex: Formalization of Taylor series.
   882 
   883 * September 2005: Stephan Merz, Alwen Tiu, QSL Loria
   884   Components for SAT solver method using zChaff.
   885 
   886 * September 2005: Ning Zhang and Christian Urban, LMU Munich
   887   A Chinese theory.
   888 
   889 * September 2005: Bernhard Haeupler, TUM
   890   Method comm_ring for proving equalities in commutative rings.
   891 
   892 * July/August 2005: Jeremy Avigad, Carnegie Mellon University
   893   Various improvements of the HOL and HOL-Complex library.
   894 
   895 * July 2005: Florian Zuleger, Johannes Hoelzl, and Simon Funke, TUM
   896   Some structured proofs about completeness of real numbers.
   897 
   898 * May 2005: Rafal Kolanski and Gerwin Klein, NICTA
   899   Improved retrieval of facts from theory/proof context.
   900 
   901 * February 2005: Lucas Dixon, University of Edinburgh
   902   Improved subst method.
   903 
   904 * 2005: Brian Huffman, OGI
   905   Various improvements of HOLCF.
   906   Some improvements of the HOL-Complex library.
   907 
   908 * 2005: Claire Quigley and Jia Meng, University of Cambridge
   909   Some support for asynchronous communication with external provers
   910   (experimental).
   911 
   912 * 2005: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   913   Contributions to document 'sugar'.
   914   Various ML combinators, notably linear functional transformations.
   915   Some cleanup of ML legacy.
   916   Additional antiquotations.
   917   Improved Isabelle web site.
   918 
   919 * 2004/2005: David Aspinall, University of Edinburgh
   920   Various elements of XML and PGIP based communication with user
   921   interfaces (experimental).
   922 
   923 * 2004/2005: Gerwin Klein, NICTA
   924   Contributions to document 'sugar'.
   925   Improved Isabelle web site.
   926   Improved HTML presentation of theories.
   927 
   928 * 2004/2005: Clemens Ballarin, TUM
   929   Provers: tools for transitive relations and quasi orders.
   930   Improved version of locales, notably interpretation of locales.
   931   Improved version of HOL-Algebra.
   932 
   933 * 2004/2005: Amine Chaieb, TUM
   934   Improved version of HOL presburger method.
   935 
   936 * 2004/2005: Steven Obua, TUM
   937   Improved version of HOL/Import, support for HOL-Light.
   938   Improved version of HOL-Complex-Matrix.
   939   Pure/defs: more sophisticated checks on well-formedness of overloading.
   940   Pure/Tools: an experimental evaluator for lambda terms.
   941 
   942 * 2004/2005: Norbert Schirmer, TUM
   943   Contributions to document 'sugar'.
   944   Improved version of HOL/record.
   945 
   946 * 2004/2005: Sebastian Skalberg, TUM
   947   Improved version of HOL/Import.
   948   Some internal ML reorganizations.
   949 
   950 * 2004/2005: Tjark Weber, TUM
   951   SAT solver method using zChaff.
   952   Improved version of HOL/refute.
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