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Spouse
  
Marianne Leicher

Education
  
Utrecht University

Role
  
Author


Name
  
Jan Klop

Children
  
Maartje (1976)

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Born
  
December 19, 1945 Gorinchem (
1945-12-19
)

Thesis
  
Combinatory Reduction Systems (1980)

Doctoral students
  
Jorg Endrullis, Clemens Grabmayer, Jeroen Ketema, Massimo Marchiori, Aart Middeldorp, Robert Jan van Glabbeek, Vincent van Oostrom, Femke van Raamsdonk

Notable awards
  
University of East Anglia honorary doctorate (2002), IFIP WG 1.6 honorary member (2011)

Books
  
Diagram Techniques for Confluence, A Geometric Proof of Confluence by Decreasing Diagrams

Doctoral advisor
  
Dirk van Dalen, Henk Barendregt

Similar People
  
Jan Bergstra, Henk Barendregt, Massimo Marchiori

Notable students
  
Massimo Marchiori

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 and his fixed point combinator

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

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Rewriting Techniques and Applications, 9th Int. Conf., RTA-98. LNCS. 1379. Springer. p. 1. 
  • References

    Jan Willem Klop Wikipedia