My BSc degree is in Mathematics, where I specialized in theoretical Computer Science, and my PhD degree is in Computer Science. My PhD thesis was on automated theorem-proving (ATP), a hard and important area within logic and artificial intelligence. After my PhD I was a Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Essex, moving from there to being a Lecturer in Computer Science at QMW (formerly QMC) in the University of London. I moved to Waikato in January 1994 and am currently a Professor in Computer Science.
Having worked on ATP for my PhD, I continued that work myself, along with
my PhD students, for some years. As time went on I came across other,
connected, topics that were interesting and important and I gradually
expanded my research into theorem-proving which required some
user-interaction and also into non-standard logics which can be used to
support programming. This led to work in the area of constructive
type-theory, which involved a single logical system for specifying and
implementing programs.
That work has, more recently, grown into developing a whole new basis
for the formal specification language Z: the work is being done jointly
with Martin Henson from the University of Essex, U.K.
I also have research interests, and a grant funded by the New Zealand government, to do with micro-charts (rather like UML Statecharts). That work is described
here .
You can find much more information about my work (teaching and research) on my personal home page.
Selected Publications
Reeves, S. and Streader, D. (2006) “Stepwise refinement of processes.” Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 160, 275-289.
Bowen, J. and Reeves, S. (2006) “Formal refinement of informal GUI design artefacts.” Han, J. and Staples, M. (eds), Proc 2006 Australian Software Engineering Conference, Sydney, Australia, 221-230. IEEE Computer Society, USA.
Reeve, G. and Reeves, S. (2006) “Logic and refinement for charts.” Estivill-Castro, V. and Dobbie, G. (eds), Proc Twenty-nineth Computer Science Conference (ACSC 2006), Hobart, Australia, 13-23. Australian Computer Society Inc., Australia.
Henson, M. C., Reeves, S. and Bowen, J. (2003) Z Logic and its Consequences. Computing and Informatics, vol. 22, no. 4.
Henson, M. C. and Reeves, S. (2003) A logic for schema-based program development. Formal Aspects of Computing, vol. 15, no. 1, Springer-Verlag.
Deutsch, M., Henson, M. and Reeves, S. (2003) An analysis of total correctness refinement models for partial relation semantics: part 1. The Logic Journal of the IGPL, Oxford University Press, vol. 11, no. 3, May 2003, pp. 285-316.
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