Dines Bjørner

Professor Dines Bjørner (born 4 October 1937, in Odense) is a Danish computer scientist.

Dines Bjørner
Born	(1937-10-04) 4 October 1937 (age 86) Odense, Denmark
Nationality	Danish
Alma mater	Technical University of Denmark
Known for	Vienna Development Method, RAISE specification language
Awards	Order of the Dannebrog (1985); FME Fellowship (2021); IFIP Fellow (2023)^[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Technical University of Denmark United Nations University

He specializes in research into domain engineering, requirements engineering and formal methods.^[2] He worked with Cliff Jones and others on the Vienna Development Method (VDM) at IBM Laboratory Vienna (and elsewhere). Later he was involved with producing the RAISE (Rigorous Approach to Industrial Software Engineering) formal method with tool support.

Bjørner was a professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) from 1965–1969 and 1976–2007, before he retired in March 2007. He was responsible for establishing the United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST), Macau, in 1992 and was its first director. His magnum opus on software engineering (three volumes) appeared in 2005/6.^[3]

To support VDM, Bjørner co-founded VDM-Europe, which subsequently became Formal Methods Europe, an organization that supports conferences and related activities. In 2003, he instigated the associated ForTIA Formal Techniques Industry Association.

Bjørner became a knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1985. He received a Dr.h.c. from the Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic in 2004. In 2021, he obtained a Dr. techn. from the Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.^[4] He is a Fellow of the IEEE (2004) and ACM (2005). He has also been a member of the Academia Europaea since 1989.

In 2007, a Symposium was held in Macau in honour of Dines Bjørner and Zhou Chaochen.^[5] In 2021, Bjørner was elected to a Formal Methods Europe (FME) Fellowship.^[6][7]

Bjørner is married to Kari Bjørner, with two children and five grandchildren.^[8]

Selected books

• Domain Science and Engineering: A Foundation for Software Development, Bjørner, D. Monographs in Theoretical Computer Science, An EATCS Series, Springer Nature. Hardcover ISBN 978-3-030-73483-1; softcover ISBN 978-3-030-73486-2; eBook ISBN 978-3-030-73484-8 (2021).
• Software Engineering 1: Abstraction and Modelling, Bjørner, D. Texts in Theoretical Computer Science, An EATCS Series, Springer-Verlag. ISBN 3-540-21149-7 (2005).
• Software Engineering 2: Specification of Systems and Languages, Bjørner, D. Texts in Theoretical Computer Science, An EATCS Series, Springer-Verlag. ISBN 3-540-21150-0 (2006).
• Software Engineering 3: Domains, Requirements, and Software Design, Bjørner, D. Texts in Theoretical Computer Science, An EATCS Series, Springer-Verlag. ISBN 3-540-21151-9 (2006).
• Formal Specification and Software Development, Bjørner, D. and Jones, C.B. Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-329003-4 (1982).
• The Vienna Development Method: The Meta-Language, Bjørner, D. and Jones, C.B. (editors). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 61, Springer-Verlag. ISBN 3-540-08766-4 (1978).

See also

• International Journal of Software and Informatics

References

1. . IFIP. 26 October 2023. Archived from the original on 2023-11-03. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
2. Dines Bjørner at DBLP Bibliography Server  
3. Bjørner, Dines, Software Engineering, 3 volumes. Texts in Theoretical Computer Science, An EATCS Series, Springer-Verlag (2005–6).
4. "Årsfest" (in Danish). Denmark: Technical University of Denmark. 26 April 2021. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
5. Jones, Cliff B.; Liu, Zhiming; Woodcock, Jim, eds. (2007). Formal Methods and Hybrid Real-Time Systems: Essays in Honor of Dines Bjørner and Chaochen Zhou on the Occasion of Their 70th Birthdays. Papers presented at a Symposium held in Macao, China, September 24–25, 2007. LNCS. Vol. 4700. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-75221-9. ISBN 978-3-540-75220-2. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
6. "FME Fellowship Awarded to Prof. Dines Bjørner". Formal Methods Europe. 24 November 2021. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
7. Bjørner, Dines (20 September 2021). "The 2021 FME Fellowship Acceptance Speech". YouTube. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
8. Bjørner, Dines (16 April 2016). "Biography". Denmark: Technical University of Denmark. Retrieved 18 August 2019.

External links

• Home page
• Biographical information
• RAISE information
• Dines Bjørner at DBLP Bibliography Server  
• Dines Bjørner publications indexed by Microsoft Academic