Axel van Lamsweerde (born 1947) is a Belgian
computer scientist
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and Professor of Computing Science at the
Universite catholique de Louvain, known for his work on
requirements engineering
Requirements engineering (RE) is the process of defining, documenting, and maintaining requirements in the engineering design process. It is a common role in systems engineering and software engineering.
The first use of the term ''requirement ...
and the development of the
KAOS goal-oriented modeling language.
Biography
Van Lamsweerde received his MS in Mathematics from the
Université catholique de Louvain
The Université catholique de Louvain (also known as the Catholic University of Louvain, the English translation of its French name, and the University of Louvain, its official English name) is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. It ...
and his PhD in computing science from the
Université libre de Bruxelles.
Van Lamsweerde started his career as research associate at
Philips Research Labs in 1970. In 1980 he was appointed Professor at the
Université de Namur
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, and later also professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles, and research fellow at the University of Oregon and Stanford. From 1988 to 1990 he directed the ESPRIT ICARUS project. Late 1990s he was appointed Professor of Computing Science at the
Universite catholique de Louvain, where he also directed the Software Engineering group in the "Departement d'Ingenierie Informatique".
Van Lamsweerde chaired several international software engineering conferences, such as ESEC'91 and ICSE'94, was Editor-in-Chief of the ''ACM Transactions in Software Engineering and Methodology,'' and founding member of the
IFIP WG2.9 Working Group on
Requirements Engineering
Requirements engineering (RE) is the process of defining, documenting, and maintaining requirements in the engineering design process. It is a common role in systems engineering and software engineering.
The first use of the term ''requirement ...
. In 2000 Van Lamsweerde was elected
ACM Fellow
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, in 2000 he was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award, and in 2008 the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award.
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at INGI Home Page. Accessed 10. 2014.
Work
The research interests of Van Lamsweerde are in the fields of "precise techniques for requirements engineering, system modeling, high assurance systems, lightweight formal methods, process modeling and analysis, medical safety, and knowledge-based software development environments."
Since the 1990s he has been developing modeling language for
goal modeling A goal model is an element of requirements engineering that may also be used more widely in business analysis. Related elements include stakeholder analysis, context analysis, and scenarios, among other business and technical areas.
Principles
Go ...
, named the
KAOS goal-oriented modeling language.
Selected publications
Books:
* Axel Lamsweerde, Pierre Dufour. ''Current issues in expert systems.'' 1987.
* Axel van Lamsweerde, Alfonso Fuggetta (eds.) ''ESEC '91: 3rd European Software Engineering Conference, ESEC '91, Milan, Italy, October 21–24, 1991. Proceedings.'' Springer Science & Business Media, 9 okt. 1991.
* Axel van Lamsweerde. ''Requirements Engineering: From System Goals to UML Models to Software Specifications.'' Wiley, 9 feb. 2009
Articles a selection:
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* Dardenne, Anne, Axel Van Lamsweerde, and Stephen Fickas.
Goal-directed requirements acquisition
" ''Science of computer programming'' 20.1 (1993): 3-50.
* Van Lamsweerde, Axel.
Requirements engineering in the year 00: A research perspective
" Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering. ACM, 2000.
* Van Lamsweerde, Axel.
http://courses.cs.ut.ee/2010/sem/uploads/Main/04RE-reading-goals.pdf Goal-oriented requirements engineering: A guided tour
" Requirements Engineering, 2001. Proceedings. Fifth IEEE International Symposium on. IEEE, 2001.
References
External links
Axel van Lamsweerde
at INGI
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1947 births
Living people
Belgian computer scientists