Óscar Pastor (born 3 March 1962 in

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) is a Spanish

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of software production methods at the Department of Information Systems and Computing of

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, and the director of the Research Centre in Software Production Methods (PROS).

Biography

Óscar ended high school in Instituto Benlliure (

) in 1980. In 1985, he received a bachelor's degree on Physics from

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, where he specialised in Electronics and Computer Science. In 1992, he received a PhD from

with his thesis ''Diseño y Desarrollo de un Entorno de Producción Automática de Software basado en el Modelo Orientado a Objetos'', supervised by Isidro Ramos. Former researcher at HP Labs (Bristol, UK), in 1986 he became an associate professor at the Faculty of Computer Science of

. From 1996 to 2002 he was a tenured professor. From 2002 to date, he is

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Work

His main research interests include

Software Engineering Software engineering is a systematic engineering approach to software development. A software engineer is a person who applies the principles of software engineering to design, develop, maintain, test, and evaluate computer software. The term '' ...

Conceptual modeling A conceptual model is a representation of a system. It consists of concepts used to help people know, understand, or simulate a subject the model represents. In contrast, physical models are physical object such as a toy model that may be assem ...

Model-driven development Model-driven engineering (MDE) is a software development methodology that focuses on creating and exploiting domain models, which are conceptual models of all the topics related to a specific problem. Hence, it highlights and aims at abstract re ...

, genomic information systems (for

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, Translational bioinformatics,

Health informatics Health informatics is the field of science and engineering that aims at developing methods and technologies for the acquisition, processing, and study of patient data, which can come from different sources and modalities, such as electronic hea ...

, etc.), and

Empirical software engineering Empirical software engineering (ESE) is a subfield of software engineering (SE) research that uses empirical research methods to study and evaluate an SE phenomenon of interest. The phenomenon may refer to software development tools/technology, pra ...

. He received the ER Fellow Award in 2010 for his contributions to the conceptual modeling area, and has been keynote speaker at a dozen of international conferences. He has also been strongly committed to technology transfer activities through the creation of spin-off companies such as Integranova and GEM Biosoft. Within the area of

model-driven software development Model-driven engineering (MDE) is a software development methodology that focuses on creating and exploiting domain models, which are conceptual models of all the topics related to a specific problem. Hence, it highlights and aims at abstract re ...

, he advocates a full-model driven software lifecycle. He authored the OO-Method, an object-oriented, model-driven method for enterprise information systems, that is currently supported by the Integranova Software Solutions technology. The OO-Method covers the

Platform-independent model A platform-independent model (PIM) in software engineering is a model of a software system or business system that is independent of the specific technological platform used to implement it. The term platform-independent model is most frequently ...

layer (according to the

Model-driven architecture Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is a software design approach for the development of software systems. It provides a set of guidelines for the structuring of specifications, which are expressed as models. Model Driven Architecture is a kind of doma ...

paradigm). To tackle with modelling layers that are closer to the business stakeholders, he has explored several requirements engineering methods and languages (ranging from

use cases In software and systems engineering, the phrase use case is a polyseme with two senses: # A usage scenario for a piece of software; often used in the plural to suggest situations where a piece of software may be useful. # A potential scenario i ...

BPMN Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is a graphical representation for specifying business processes in a business process model. Originally developed by the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), BPMN has been maintained by the Ob ...

). Among them, he co-authored Communication Analysis, a business process modelling and requirements engineering method with a communicational orientation, as well as its integration with the OO-Method, in a way that Communication Analysis covers the Computation-independent model layer.

Awards

* 2016: Peter P. Chen Award,

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Publications

Óscar Pastor is author of over 200 scientific publications in conference proceedings, journals and books, among which the following stand out: * 2007. ''Model-Driven Architecture in Practice: A Software Production Environment Based on Conceptual Modeling''. With Juan Carlos Molina. Springer.

References

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