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 458, 4th floor, Computer Science Building
Courses
Spring 2009
- CS517/CS517DL: Software Specification and Design (on-campus, online)
- CS314: Software Development Methods
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
Awards
2008: Ten Year Most Influential Paper
Award – MODELS 2008
MODELS marked its
ten year anniversary in 2008 by awarding its first “Ten Year Most
Influential” paper award. A paper I co-authored with other founding members
of the pUML (precise UML) group received the award.
- The UML as a Formal Modeling Notation - Andy Evans, Robert
B. France, Kevin Lano, Bernhard Rumpe
2007: A Best Paper
Award - MODELS 2007 Workshop on Aspect Oriented Modeling (AOM)
·
A Generic
Approach For Automatic Model Composition – F. Fleurey, B.
Baudry, R. France, and S. Ghosh
2002: Best Paper
Award - International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems
(ICECCS 2002)
·
Using Aspects to Design a
Secure System
- Geri Georg, Indrakshi Ray, Robert France
1999: Best Paper
Award - The Tel-isphere'99 Commonwealth of Learning Conference
·
Towards an Internet-Based
Education Model for Caribbean Countries - Emanuel Grant, Robert France
1998: Best Paper
Award - The Ninth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
(ISSRE'98)
·
Incorporating a Formal
Design Technique in an Industrial Setting - Robert France, Robert Busser, Maha
Boughdadi
Research Activities
- Selected
Publications
- Recent
Invited Talks
- 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:
- Other Research Activities (pUML, Testing UML Designs)
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
Journal & Conference Activities
Software and System Modeling (SoSyM):
Founding EICs: Robert France and Bernhard Rumpe
Publisher:
Springer
Papers to SoSyM can now be submitted online. To submit a paper, go to the SoSyM Online Submission System
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).
IEEE
Computer Software Area Editor
Journal
of Software Testing, Verification, and Reliability: Member of
editorial board
EIC: Jeff Offutt
Publisher: Wiley
Announcements
MODELS
2009 will be held in Denver, CO; Oct. 3 – 9, 2009
Workshop on
Modeling in Software Engineering
@ ICSE 2009
Vancouver, Canada (Date TBA)
Organizers: Robert Baillargeon (General Motors); Robert France(CSU); Geri Georg (CSU);
Bernhard Rumpe (Braunschweig University of Technology); Steven Völkel,
(Braunschweig University of Technology);
Steffen Zschaler (Lancaster University)
2008 CSU
Workshop on Engineering Research Software
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: November, 2008