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Gary Leavens

Professor

Department: Computer Science
Email: Leavens@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-4758
Office: Harris Engineering Center (bldg. 116) 437D
Website: http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/~leavens/
Resume: N/A

Research Interests: Programming and specification language design and semantics, formal methods (program specification and verification), aspect-oriented languages, object-oriented languages, distributed languages, type theory, programming methodology, software engineering, information assurance, computer science education.

  • Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Philosophy
  • M.S. University of Southern California Computer Science
  • B.S. University of Michigan Computer and Communication Sciences
ucf
  • Professor
editorial
  • Co-editor in chief for Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (Springer-Verlag), from May 2011 to March 2013.
  • Editorial board member for Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (Springer-Verlag), since November 2009.
  • Associate Editor for Journal of Object Technology (online), since May 2010.
  • Assistant editor for Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM) (published by Springer-Verlag), since 2001.
leadership
  • Chair of Computer Science

  • Mehdi Bagherzadeh, Hridesh Rajan, Gary T. Leavens, and Sean Mooney. Translucid Contracts: Expressive Specification and Modular Verification for Aspect-Oriented Interfaces. In Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Aspect-oriented software development, Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco, Brazil, ACM, 2011, pp. 141-152.

  • C.A.R. Hoare, Jayadev Misra, Gary T. Leavens, and Natarajan Shankar. The Verified Software Initiative: A Manifesto. ACM Computing Surveys, 41(4):22:1-22:8, October, 2009.

  • John Hatcliff, Gary T. Leavens, K. Rustan M. Leino, Peter Müller, and Matthew Parkinson. Behavioral Interface Specification Languages. ACM Computing Surveys, 44(3):16:1-16:58, June, 2012.

  • Hridesh Rajan and Gary T. Leavens. Ptolemy: A Language with Quantified, Typed Events. In Jan Vitek (ed.), ECOOP 2008 -- Object-Oriented Programming: 22nd European Conference, pages 155-179. Volume 5142 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, July, 2008.

  • Curtis Clifton, Gary T. Leavens, and James Noble. MAO: Ownership and Effects for more Effective Reasoning about Aspects. In ECOOP 2007 -- Object-Oriented Programming: 21st European Conference, pages 451-475. Volume 4609 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, July, 2007.