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IFIP TC2 (Software: Theory and Practice) Community Website

The [IFIP TC2] committee has been established in 1962. Its aims and scope were revised twice: in 1982, and in 1990.

Aims

To obtain a deeper understanding of programming concepts in order to improve the quality of software by studying all aspects of the software development process, both theoretical and practical.

Scope

The scope of the committee encompasses all aspects of the software development process including the specification, design, implementation and validation of software systems. Areas of present activity are:

• formal models of software concepts
• programming languages and techniques
• models for information storage and processing
• program support environments
• user interfaces to software systems
• software quality

Contact

tc2@domain -- Replace "domain" by lists.kit.edu

News

In July 2023, Dr. Jacques Carette was elected as Chair, and Dr. Peter Höfner as Vice-Chair. We thank past Chair Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ina Schaefer and Vice-Chair Ao. Univ.Prof. Dr. Stefan Biffl for their dedicated years of service.

Older news

IFIP Outstanding Service Awards were awarded for 2013 to Prof. Anthony Finkelstein (WG 2.9), Prof. Brian Ford (WG 2.5), and Prof. Chris Lengauer (WG 2.11).

An IFIP Outstanding Service Award was awarded to Prof. Davide Sangiorgi on September 28, 2012. Prof. Davide Sangiorgi chaired IFIP Working Group 2.2, "Formal Description of Programming Concepts", for two consecutive terms (2006-2011). During his term the Working Group was very active. For instance they organized a well attended Amir Pnueli Memorial Symposium in 2010. The group was also involved in organization of the well-known CONCUR conferences. Prof. Davide Sangiorgi is also a highly recognized scientist in his own right. He is the author of a well-known book on the pi-calculus which has over 1200 citations (Google Scholar).

The IFIP TC2 Manfred Paul Award for Excellence in Software: Theory and Practice

The Award

Technical Committee 2 of IFIP annually recognizes excellence in its area by means of an award made to an outstanding researcher in software, theory are practice.

1. The award is known as the IFIP TC2 Manfred Paul Award.
2. The award consists of a certificate and an amount of money to the value of 1024 euro.
3. The award is issued annually to a natural person, or group, for a single (possibly joint) paper published in the proceedings of a suitable conference yearly so assigned by IFIP TC2.
4. The selection is done by the Program Committee Chair(s) of the conference, and the award must be personally and publicly issued to the laureate at the event.
5. The motto of the prize is "For excellence in Software: Theory and Practice" according to the scope of the TC2 working groups, see www.ifiptc2.org.
6. Members of TC2 are not eligible, when member is taken as on 1st of January of the award year, but members of Working Groups are eligible.
7. At the discretion of the committee members, there may be no award or more than one award in each year.

More details as well as the list of awardees can be found on the Manfred Paul Award page.

Details of TC2 (Meeting Minutes, Members, Officers, Working Groups)

Minutes of Meetings

• July 2025
• July 2024
• July 2023
• July 2022
• December 2020
• May 2019
• May 2018
• July 2017
• July 2016
• May 2015

Members

More detailed membership information is maintained by IFIP.

Officers

• Chair: Dr. Jacques Carette
• Vice-Chair: Prof. Michael GOEDICKE, Dr. Peter Hoefner
• Secretary: Dr. Julia LAWALL

Working groups

• WG 2.1 - Algorithmic Languages and Calculi
  Chair: Prof. Peter HÖFNER, Vice chair: Patrick JANSSON, Secretary: Prof. Tom SCHRIJVERS
• WG 2.2 - Formal Description of Programming Concepts
  Chair: Prof. Barbara KÖNIG, Vice Chair: Prof. Ugo DAL LAGO, Secretary: Prof. Dr. Markus MÜLLER-OLM
• WG 2.3 - Programming Methodology
  Chair: Dr. Rajeev JOSHI, Vice-chair: Prof. Sophia DROSSOPOULOU, Secretary: Dr. Alberto GRIGGIO
• WG 2.4 - Software Implementation Technology
  Chair: Prof. Anders MOELLER, Vice Chair: Prof. Michael PRADEL, Secretary: Dr. Tucker TAFT
• WG 2.5 - Numerical Software
  Chair: Dr. Andrew DIENSTFREY, Vice-Chair: Prof. Amparo GIL, Secretary: TBA
• WG 2.6 - Database
  Chair: Prof. Robert WREMBEL, Vice-Chair: Prof. Paolo CHERAVOLO, Secretary: Prof. Sven GROPPE
• WG 2.7/13.4 - User Interface Engineering
  Chair: Prof. Davide SPANO, Vice-Chair: Prof. Anke DITTMAR, Secretary: Prof. Sophie DUPUY-CHESSA
• WG 2.8 - Functional Programming
  Chair: Prof. Peter THIEMANN, Secretary: Prof. John REPPY
• WG 2.9 - Software Requirements Engineering
  Chair: Prof. Andrea ZISMAN, Vice-chair: Prof. Travis D. BREAUX, Secretary: Prof. Liliana PASQUALE
• WG 2.10 - Software Architecture
  Being reformed. Contact: Prof. Michael GOEDICKE
• WG 2.11 - Program Generation
  Chair: Prof. Jacques CARETTE, Vice-Chair: Prof. Jeremy YALLOP
• WG 2.14/6.12/8.10 - Service-Oriented Systems
  Chair: Prof. Stefan SCHULTE, Vice Chairs: Prof. Jacopo SOLDANI, Secretary: Damian Andrew TAMBURRI
• WG 2.15/1.9 - Verified Software
  Chair: Prof. Tiziana MARGARIA, Vice Chair: Dr. Jean-Christophe FILLIATRE, Secretary: Dr. Natarajan SHANKAR
• WG 2.16 – Programming Language Design
  Chair: Dr. Tijs VAN DER STORM, Vice Chair: Dr. Heather MILLER, Secretary: Mr. Jonathan EDWARDS
• WG 1.11/2.17 - Foundations of Quantum Computation
  Chair: Prof. Aleks KISSINGER, Secretary: Luís Manuel Dias Coelho Soares-Barbosa

National representatives

• Marcelo Frias (AR)
• Stefan Biffl (AT)
• Jo Dalvean (AU)
• Sylvia Ilieva (BG)
• Julio Leite (BR)
• Peter Knopf (CH)
• Emilio Insfran (CLEI)
• Přemek Brada (CZ)
• Michael Goedicke (DE)
• Fritz Henglein (DK)
• Reima Suomi (FI)
• Julia Lawall (FR)
• Bhanumati Shekhar (IN)
• Paolo Ciancarini (IT)
• Atsushi Igarashi (JP)
• Wouter Swierstra (NL)
• Elizabeth A. Kemp (NZ, SEARCC)
• Robert Wrembel (PL)
• Fernando Brito e Abreu (PT)
• Nenad Stefanović (RS)
• Marko Bajec (SI)
• Maria Bielikova (SK)
• Nikolay Sidorov (UA)
• Bruce Watson (ZA)
• Will Tracz (US, ACM)