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50
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18772
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5481
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Overview

Nikolaj Bjørner is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Computer Science, publishing 39 papers in various subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Software, Information Systems, and Hardware and Architecture.

Their research addresses a broad range of topics, with a focus on Formal Methods in Verification, Logic, Programming, and Type Systems, Software Testing and Debugging Techniques, Software Engineering Research, Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques, Embedded Systems Design Techniques, and Blockchain Technology Applications and Security.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Laura Kovács, Clemens Eisenhofer, Lev Nachmanson, Maxwell Levatich, and Shuo Chen.

Typical venues for their publications are diverse and include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Formal Aspects of Computing
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • Artifact Digital Object Group
  • Formal Methods in System Design

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Nikolaj Bjørner include:

  • SpEQ: Translation of Sparse Codes using Equivalences (2024), Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • Algebra-Based Reasoning for Loop Synthesis (2022), Formal Aspects of Computing
  • dZ3: Artifact for "Symbolic Boolean Derivatives for Efficiently Solving Extended Regular Expression Constraints" (2021), Artifact Digital Object Group
  • Preface of the special issue on the conference on formal methods in computer aided design 2018 (2021), Formal Methods in System Design
  • An Ethereum-compatible blockchain that explicates and ensures design-level safety properties for smart contracts (2023), arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

  • Z3: an efficient SMT solver

    Leonardo De Moura;Nikolaj Bjørner

  • Satisfiability modulo theories: introduction and applications

    Leonardo De Moura;Nikolaj Bjørner

  • Efficient E-Matching for SMT Solvers

    Leonardo Moura;Nikolaj Bjørner

  • Generalized property directed reachability

    Kryštof Hoder;Nikolaj Bjørner

  • Universal naming scheme for peer-to-peer resources

    Dan Teodosiu;Nikolaj S. Bjorner;Markus M. Breunig

  • Horn Clause Solvers for Program Verification

    Nikolaj Bjørner;Arie Gurfinkel;Kenneth L. McMillan;Andrey Rybalchenko

  • vZ - An Optimizing SMT Solver

    Nikolaj BjØrner;Anh-Dung Phan;Lars Fleckenstein

  • Satisfiability Modulo Theories: An Appetizer

    Leonardo Moura;Nikolaj Bjørner

  • STeP: The Stanford Temporal Prover

    Zohar Manna;Nikolaj Bjørner;Anca Browne;Edward Y. Chang

  • VeriCon: towards verifying controller programs in software-defined networks

    Thomas Ball;Nikolaj Bjørner;Aaron Gember;Shachar Itzhaky

  • Path Feasibility Analysis for String-Manipulating Programs

    Nikolaj Bjørner;Nikolai Tillmann;Andrei Voronkov

  • STeP: Deductive-Algorithmic Verification of Reactive and Real-Time Systems

    Nikolaj Bjørner;Anca Browne;Eddie Chang;Michael Colón

  • Automatic generation of invariants and intermediate assertions

    Nikolaj Bjørner;Anca Browne;Zohar Manna

  • Checking beliefs in dynamic networks

    Nuno P. Lopes;Nikolaj Bjørner;Patrice Godefroid;Karthick Jayaraman

  • Automated Deduction - CADE-23 : 23rd International Conference on Automated Deduction

    Nikolaj Bjørner;Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans

  • Symbolic finite state transducers: algorithms and applications

    Margus Veanes;Pieter Hooimeijer;Benjamin Livshits;David Molnar

  • Generalized, efficient array decision procedures

    Leonardo de Moura;Nikolaj Bjorner

  • On Solving Universally Quantified Horn Clauses

    Nikolaj Bjørner;Kenneth L. McMillan;Andrey Rybalchenko;Andrey Rybalchenko

  • Verifying Temporal Properties of Reactive Systems: A STeP Tutorial

    Nikolaj S. Bjørner;Anca Browne;Michael A. Colón;Bernd Finkbeiner

  • µZ: an efficient engine for fixed points with constraints

    Kryštof Hoder;Nikolaj Bjørner;Leonardo De Moura

  • Locator and tracking service for peer to peer resources

    Dan Teodosiu;Nikolaj S. Bjorner;Markus M. Breunig

Frequent Co-Authors

Leonardo de Moura
Leonardo de Moura Microsoft (United States)
Margus Veanes
Margus Veanes Microsoft (United States)
Yuri Gurevich
Yuri Gurevich University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Zohar Manna
Zohar Manna Stanford University
Andrey Rybalchenko
Andrey Rybalchenko Microsoft (United States)
Mooly Sagiv
Mooly Sagiv Tel Aviv University
Wolfram Schulte
Wolfram Schulte Microsoft (United States)
Kenneth L. McMillan
Kenneth L. McMillan Microsoft (United States)
Arie Gurfinkel
Arie Gurfinkel University of Waterloo
Henny B. Sipma
Henny B. Sipma Aarno Labs

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