Jan Willem Klop

Jan Willem Klop (born 1945) is a professor of applied logic at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematical logic from Utrecht University. Klop is known for his work on the Algebra of Communicating Processes, co-author of TeReSe[2] and his fixed point combinator[3]

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Jan Willem Klop
Born(1945-12-19)December 19, 1945
Gorinchem
Spouse(s)Marianne Leicher
ChildrenMaartje (1976)[1]
AwardsUniversity of East Anglia honorary doctorate (2002), IFIP WG 1.6 honorary member (2011)
Scientific career
ThesisCombinatory Reduction Systems (1980)
Doctoral advisorDirk van Dalen, Henk Barendregt
Doctoral studentsMassimo Marchiori

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Klop became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.[4]

Selected publications
  • Jan Willem Klop (1980). Combinatory Reduction Systems (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). Utrecht University.
  • J.C.M. Baeten, Jan Bergstra, Jan Willem Klop (1987). "Term Rewriting Systems with Priorities". In Lescanne, Pierre (ed.). Rewriting Techniques and Applications, 2nd Int. Conf., RTA-87. LNCS. 256. Springer. pp. 83–94.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) — preceding technical report FVI 86-03
  • Y. Toyama, Jan Willem Klop, Henk Barendregt (1989). "Termination for the Direct Sum of left-Linear Term Rewriting Systems -Preliminary Draft-". In Nachum Dershowitz (ed.). Rewriting Techniques and Applications, 3rd Int. Conf., RTA-89. LNCS. 355. Springer. pp. 477–491.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) — preceding technical report IEICE COMP 88-90
  • N. Dershowitz, Jean-Pierre Jouannaud, Jan Willem Klop (1991). "Open Problems in Rewriting". In Ronald V. Book (ed.). Rewriting Techniques and Applications, 4th Int. Conf., RTA-91 (PDF). LNCS. 488. Springer. pp. 445–456.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Kennaway, R. and Klop, J.W. and Sleep, M.R. and de Vries, F.-J. (1991). "Transfinite Reductions in Orthogonal Term Rewriting Systems (Extended Abstract)". In Book, Ronald V. (ed.). Rewriting Techniques and Applications, 4th Int. Conf., RTA-91 (PDF). LNCS. 488. Springer. pp. 1–12.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Dershowitz, N. and Jouannaud, J.-P. and Klop, J.W. (1993). "More Problems in Rewriting". In Kirchner, Claude (ed.). Rewriting Techniques and Applications, 5th Int. Conf., RTA-93 (PDF). LNCS. 690. Springer. pp. 468–487.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Kennaway, R. and Klop, J.W. and Sleep, M.R. and de Vries, F.-J. (1995). "Infinitary Lambda Calculi and Böhm Models". In Hsiang, Jieh (ed.). 6th Int. Conf. on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA). LNCS. 914. Springer. pp. 257–270.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Klop, J.W. (1998). "Origin Tracking in Term Rewriting (invited lecture)". In Tobias Nipkow (ed.). Rewriting Techniques and Applications, 9th Int. Conf., RTA-98. LNCS. 1379. Springer. p. 1.

References
  1. Curriculum vitae
  2. Marc Bezem; Jan Willem Klop; Roel de Vrijer, eds. (2003). Terese — Term Rewriting Systems. Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science. 55. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  3. Jan Willem Klop (2007). "New Fixed Point Combinators From Old" (PDF). In Erik Barendsen; Herman Geuvers; Venanzio Capretta; Milad Niqui (eds.). Reflections on Type Theory, Lambda Calculus, and the Mind — Essays Dedicated to Henk Barendregt on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday]. University Nijmegen. pp. 197–210. ISBN 978-90-9022446-6. Here: nr.1.3, p.198
  4. "Jan Willem Klop". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 8 February 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2016.


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