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The second international conference<ref>http://www.sigmod.org/dblp/db/conf/fm/vdme1988.html</ref> was held in Dublin, Ireland, September 11-16, 1988.
The second international conference<ref>http://www.sigmod.org/dblp/db/conf/fm/vdme1988.html</ref> was held in Dublin, Ireland, September 11-16, 1988.



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==The Danish School==
==The Danish School==

Revision as of 11:54, 5 May 2008

Meta-IV stands for Metaphor. Dines Bjørner coined it in the very beginning of the Vienna Development Method. The first occurrence of Meta-IV in print was probably the monograph[1]:

Dines Bjørner and C.B. Jones, editors.
The Vienna Development Method: The Meta-Language, volume 61 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Springer-Verlag, 1978.

Since the VDM has become standardized, then one may use Meta-IV for the three specific Schools of the VDM[2] which existed (and to some extent still do) from the 1970's onwards:

  • the Danish School — founded by Dines Bjørner
  • the British School — founded by Cliff Jones
  • the Irish School[3] — founded by Micheal Mac an Airchinnigh

An account of where these different Schools is given in the text "Mathematical Approaches to Software Quality"[4]

VDM Europe

The three Schools were brought under a common organizational structure called VDM Europe[5] which held it first international conference in Brussels, Belgium, March 23-26, 1987.

The second international conference[6] was held in Dublin, Ireland, September 11-16, 1988.


The Danish School

The British School

The Irish School