Computer Science Department
Robert B. France
Professor
- Voice: (970) 491-6356, Fax: (970) 491-2466
- Email: france At cs . colostate . edu
Computer Science Department
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1873- Office location:
Room 225;
Announcements
Journal of Software and System Modeling
(SoSyM)
Papers to SoSyM can now be submitted online. To submit a paper, go to the SoSyM Online Submission System
2008 CSU Workshop on Engineering Research Software
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Courses
Fall 2008
- CS614AV: Advanced Software Engineering
– Model-Driven Development of Complex Software Systems – Tuesdays &
Thursdays 8-9:15AM, Room 310B, USC.
Spring 2008
- CS517: Software Specification and Design (on-campus)
- CS517DL: Software Specification and Design (online)
Career Overview
First year at CSU: August 1998
1992-1998: Assistant\Associate Professor, Florida Atlantic University,
Boca Raton, Florida
1990-1992: Post-doctoral research at UMIACS, University of Maryland at
College Park
1990: PhD, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
1984: BSc (First Class Honours), University of the West Indies, Trinidad
Current Research
- Model
Driven Engineering Research: Aspect Oriented Modeling (AOM), model
composition, testing models
- MATT
Equipe Associee: INRIA/CSU Collaboration on Models, Aspects,
Transformation and Tests: PI:
Benoit Baudry, INRIA, Rennes, France; CSU Collaborators: R. France, S.
Ghosh
- The Repository for Model Driven
Development (REMODD) Project.
Planning grant funded by the National Science Foundation. PI:
- International Collaboration on
Aspect-Based Modeling of Complex Software Systems.
Planning grant funded by the National Science Foundation. PI:
- Testing
UML Models.
Research funded by the National Science Foundation. PI:
- Aspect-Oriented
Approach to Policy Specification.
Funded by AFOSR (Air Force Office of Scientific Research); PI: I. Ray; CO-PI:
Past Research Activities
· The Precise UML Project (pUML)
· Papers on
Formalizing OO Models
Recent MDE/MDD Overview Papers
·
Model-driven Development of Complex Software: A
Research Roadmap
R. France, B. Rumpe; Proceedings of the ICSE 2007 Future of Software
Engineering, May 2007.
·
Model-Driven
Development using UML 2.0: Promises and Pitfalls
R. France, S. Ghosh , T. Dinh-Trong, A.
Solberg; IEEE Computer, 39(2); February 2006; 59-66.
Conferences and Workshops
- ICSE Workshop on Models in Software Engineering (MISE 08)
Organizers: Jo Atlee, Robert France, Geri Georg, Ana Moreira, Bernhard Rumpe, Steffen Zschaler. - MODELS
2008; PC Member
Toulouse, France, 28 Sept. – 3 Oct. 2008. - ICECCS 2008 (International Conference on Engineering of Complex
Computer Systems); PC Member
Belfast, Northern Ireland, 31 March – 4 April 2008. - ICMT 2008 (International Conference on Model Transformation); PC Member
Zurich, Switzerland, 1-2 July, 2008. - Models@run.time (Workshop on use of models to support software adaptation and
runtime evolution);
in conjunction with MoDELS/UML 2008: Organizers: Nelly Bencomo, Gordon Blair, Robert France
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MEMSE '08 (Workshop on
Maintenance and Evolution in Model-Based Software Engineering); PC Member
co-located with VL/HCC'08, Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany; September 20th,
2008
Editorial Activities
Software and
System Modeling: Founding EICs: Robert France and Bernhard Rumpe
Publisher:
Springer
First issue launched at UML 2002, October 2, 2002.
Attendees at the First
SoSyM Editorial Board Meeting, UML 2002, October 2002 -
Back (top stair, left to right): Michael Jackson, Steve Cook, Bran Selic,
Jean-Marc Jezequel, Jean-Michel Bruel, Bernhard Rumpe, Martin Gogolla, Heinrich
Hussmann.
Front (bottom stair and below, left to right): Stuart Kent, Robert France, Geri
Georg, Perdita Stevens, Hermann Engesser (Springer).
Journal
of Software Testing, Verification, and Reliability: Member of editorial
board
EIC: Jeff Offutt
Publisher: Wiley
Past Research Projects
- Using Models to Manage
Large Integrated Systems.
Projects with Qwest and John Deere. - An
Research funded by Qwest and the Colorado Advanced Software Institute, July 2001-August 2002. - Formalizing Object
Oriented Modeling Concepts.
Research funded by the National Science Foundation, 1998-2002. - Methods Integration Research.
Research funded by the National Science Foundation, 1994-1997. - Rigorous Object-Oriented
Development using SDL.
Research carried out in collaboration with Motorola, Boynton Beach, Florida, 1996-1997
Past Doctoral Students
Emanuel Grant: University of North Dakota
Dae-Kyoo Kim: Oakland University
Raghu Reddy: Rochester Institute of Technology
Devon Simmonds: University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Eunjee Song: Baylor University
Trung Dinh Trong: Avaya Labs
Scholarships for students, in particular, students from underrepresented groups in the Sciences
Caribbean Sites of Interest
St. Vincent & The Grenadines
Jamaica
Guyana
Trinidad & Tobago
University of the West
Indies (St. Augustine)
"I am always worried by the word `encourage'. Too
often it means that with the best of intentions we praise what is third rate
and omit to point out that Art requires talent … real talent and not mere
literacy in any medium. I see no substitute for passion, internally generated,
and hard work."
Martin Wylde Carter, Guyanese poet, 1927-1997.
"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and accept
without forgetting." Elizabeth Bibesco
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small
people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can
become great." Mark Twain
"Freedom to be your best means nothing unless you're willing to do
your best." Colin Powell
"The secret to success is to learn to accept the impossible, to do
without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable."
Nelson Mandela, Former President of
Last modified: February, 2008