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Institute Name: University of NANTES, Faculté des SciencesDescription: Equipe de Recherche en Technologie Objet (ERTO) is a research team affiliated to University of Nantes. It runs jointly with a Master program called DESS, one of the first programs completely dedicated to object technology,started in 1989. The DESS of Nantes welcomes up to 24 students each year. The program covers OO concepts and languages (Smalltalk, Eiffel, C++, CLOS), OO modeling, specification, analysis and design (OMT, Objectory, Object Z, etc..), OO concurrency, OO GUI and graphics and OO data bases (O2). After 6 months of study, making them completely operational in using OO technology, students have to spend a period of 6 months working in a lab or a company.
Our research and industrial partners in the past years include: INRIA Rocquencourt, CNET Lannion, CNET Issy, ISE Santa Barbara, OTI Ottawa, UTS Sydney, Georg Heeg Dortmund, CGE Marcoussis, SEPT Caen, SRTP Nantes, Cap Sesa, SOL, Matra, Maintech, and many others.
ERTO has been involved with the building of a research prototype called OSMOSIS. This is an experimental platform intended to study new forms of the software lifecycle characterized by the usage of object technology. One particular area of concern is the introduction of a requirements model in the object-oriented lifecycle. The notion of "requirement script" has been proposed as an extension of the concept of Use Case (Jacobson). In order to support the various models in a lifecycle. A particular kind of semantic network called sNets has been also defined and used as the core representation formalism for requirement engineering research and other relevant projects.
Researchers associated with the project:
Prof. J. Bezivin Mr. R. Berteaud several Master students
Brief CVs of Key Researchers:
Name: J. Bezivin
Nationality: French
Academic Qualifications & Experience: Jean Bezivin is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Nantes, France where he teaches Operating Systems and Software Engineering. He is also the Director of the DESS of Genie Informatique de Nantes and of the ERTO research team. Prior to his current post, he has been an assistant professor at the Universities of Rennes and Brest and a research assistant at the Queen's University of Belfast and the Concordia University.
He studied in Grenoble, France. His research interests include object-oriented requirement engineering and test techniques, reverse engineering and re-engineering, simulation and modeling, concurrent programming, design and analysis techniques and methods and software development environments.
Prof. Bezivin together with P. Cointe were the initiators of the European Conference on Object Oriented Programming(ECOOP). Also, he initiated, together with B. Meyer the TOOLS conferences. He participates the editorial boards of several journals and the program committees of several conferences.
Selected Publications:
Barbier, F. & Bezivin, J. (1993) Object-Oriented Design: the OSM scheme TOOLS'USA, Santa Barbara, Prentice Hall, pp. 57-68.
Bezivin, J. & Lanneluc, J. & Lemesle, R. (1994) Representing Knowledge in the Object-Oriented Lifecycle TOOLS Pacific'94, Melbourne, Australia, Prentice Hall.
Bezivin, J. & Lanneluc, J. & Lemesle, R. (1994) Un reseau semantique au coeur d'un AGL Conference LMO, Langages et Modeles a Objets, Grenoble, France
Bezivin, J. (1995) Object-oriented Requirement Elicitation in the OSMOSIS Project IEEE International Symposium and Workshop on Systems Engineering of Computer Based Systems, Tucson, Arizona.
Contact Details:
Principal Investigator: Prof. Jean Bezivin,
Address:Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Nantes, 2 Rue de la Houssiniere, Nantes Cedex 03, 44072, FRANCE
Telephone number: + 33 2 51 12 58 13
Telefax number: + 33 2 51 12 58 12
EMail: Jean.Bezivin@Sciences.Univ-Nantes.fr
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