Colette Rolland (born 1943, in Dieupentale,

Tarn-et-Garonne Tarn-et-Garonne (; ) is a Departments of France, department in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania Regions of France, region in Southern France. It is traversed by the rivers Tarn (river), Tarn and Garonne, from which it takes its n ...

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) is a French

computer scientist A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...

and Professor of Computer Science in the department of Mathematics and Informatics at the

University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Uni ...

. She is a leading researcher in the area of information and knowledge systems, known for her work on

meta-modeling A metamodel is a model of a model, and metamodeling is the process of generating such metamodels. Thus metamodeling or meta-modeling is the analysis, construction, and development of the frames, rules, constraints, models, and theories applica ...

, particularly goal modelling and situational method engineering.

Biography

In 1966 she studied applied mathematics at the

University of Nancy A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Uni ...

, where she received her PhD in 1971. In 1973, she was appointed Professor at the University of Nancy, Department of Computer Science. In 1979 she became professor at

Department of Mathematics and Informatics. She has been involved in numerous European research projects and has led cooperative research projects with companies. She is currently Professor Emeritus of Computer Science in the department of Mathematics and Informatics. Rolland serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including ''Journal of Information Systems'', ''Journal on Information and Software Technology'', ''Requirements Engineering Journal'', ''Journal of Networking and Information Systems'', ''Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal'', ''Journal of Data Base Management'' and ''Journal of Intelligent Information Systems''. She is the French representative in IFIP TC8 on Information Systems and has been the co chair and chairperson of the IFIP WG8.1 during nine years.Short biography
. Accessed 4 Feb 2009. Rolland received numerous awards including the IFIP Silver Core, IFIP service award, the Belgium prize ‘de la Fondation Franqui’ and the European prize of ‘Information Systems’.

Work

Roland's research interests are in the areas of

information modeling An information model in software engineering is a representation of concepts and the relationships, constraints, rules, and Operation (mathematics), operations to specify Semantic data model, data semantics for a chosen domain of discourse. Typica ...

databases In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and ana ...

, temporal

data modeling Data modeling in software engineering is the process of creating a data model for an information system by applying certain formal techniques. It may be applied as part of broader Model-driven engineering (MDE) concept. Overview Data modeli ...

, object-oriented analysis and design,

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 ''requiremen ...

and specially change engineering,

method engineering Method engineering in the "field of information systems is the List of academic disciplines, discipline to construct new methods from existing methods".F. Harmsen & M. Saeki (1996). "Comparison of four method engineering languages". In: Sjaak ...

CASE Case or CASE may refer to: Instances * Instantiation (disambiguation), a realization of a concept, theme, or design * Special case, an instance that differs in a certain way from others of the type Containers * Case (goods), a package of relate ...

and CAME tools,

change management Change management (CM) is a discipline that focuses on managing changes within an organization. Change management involves implementing approaches to prepare and support individuals, teams, and leaders in making organizational change. Change mana ...

and enterprise knowledge development.

Publications

Rolland is the co-author of 7 textbooks; editor of 25 proceedings and author or co-author of over 280 invited and referred papers.Colette Rolland
List of publications from the DBLP Bibliography Server. Accessed 4 Feb 2009.

Colette Rolland : Professeur Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Google Scholar profile. Books, a selection: * 1991. ''Automatic Tools for Designing Office Information Systems: The Todos Approach''. Research Reports ESPRIT, Project 813, Todos, Vol. 1. With B. Pernici. * 1992. ''Information System Concepts: Improving the Understanding, Proceedings.'' With Eckhard D. Falkenberg. IFIP Transactions a, Computer Science and Technology. * 1993. ''Advanced Information Systems Engineering''. With F. Bodart. Springer. * 1994. ''A Natural Language Approach For Requirements Engineering''. With C. Proix. * 1996. ''Facilitating "Fuzzy to Formal" Requirements Modelling''. With Janis Bubenko, P. Loucopoulos and V. Deantonellis. * 1988. ''Temporal Aspects in Information Systems''. With F. Bodart. Elsevier Science Ltd. * 1998.
A framework of information system concepts. The FRISCO report
'. With Eckhard D. Falkenberg, Paul Lindgreen, Björn E. Nilsson, J.L. Han Oei, Ronald Stamper, Frans J M Van Assche, Alexander A. Verrijn-Stuart and Klaus Voss. * 1998
"A proposal for a scenario classification framework"
With others. In: ''Journal of. Requirements Engineering''. vol. 3 pp. 23–47 – Springer Verlag, 1998 * 2000. ''Engineering information systems in the Internet context: IFIP TC8/WG8.1''. With Sjaak Brinkkemper and Motoshi Saeki. * 2005
"Modeling Goals and Reasoning with Them"
with Camille Salinesi, in ''Engineering and Managing Software Requirements'', edited by Aybüke Aurum and Claes Wohlin, Springer:Berlin/Heidelberg, p. 189‑217. * 2005
"Measuring the fitness relationship"
with Anne Etien, ''Requirements Engineering'', vol. 10, p. 184‑197, 2005. Papers, a selection: * 1998
"A proposal for a scenario classification framework"
With others. In: ''Journal of. Requirements Engineering''. vol. (3) pp. 23–47 – Springer Verlag, 1998 * 2005
"Map-driven Modular Method Re-engineering: Improving the RESCUE Requirements Process"
CAiSE Short Paper Proceedings 2005 with Jolita Ralyté et al. * 2006
"Intentional Cognitive Models with Volition"
With Ammar Qusaibaty, Newton Howard * 2007
"Capturing System Intentionality with Maps"
in ''Conceptual Modelling in Information Systems Engineering'', edited by

John Krogstie John Krogstie (born 23 May 1967) is a Norwegian computer scientist, professor in information systems at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, and an expert in the field of enterprise modelling. Biography ...

, Andreas Opdahl and Sjaak Brinkkemper, Springer:Berlin/Heidelberg, p. 141‑158. * 2007
"On the Adequate Modeling of Business Process Families"
With Naveen Prakash. Paper 8th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support. * 2008. ''Requirements engineering: foundation for software quality : 14th international working conference, REFSQ 2008, Montpellier, France, June 16–17, 2008 : proceedings''. With Barbara Paech (eds.). * 2008
"Towards Engineering Purposeful Systems: A Requirements Engineering Perspective"
in ''Database and Expert Systems Applications'', edited by S. S. Bhowmick, J. Küng and R. Wagner, ''

Lecture Notes in Computer Science ''Lecture Notes in Computer Science'' is a series of computer science books published by Springer Science+Business Media since 1973. Overview The series contains proceedings, post-proceedings, monographs, and Festschrifts. In addition, tutorials ...

'', vol. 5181, Springer:Berlin/Heidelberg, p. 1‑4. * 2009
"Exploring the Fitness Relationship between System Functionality and Business Needs"
in ''Design Requirements Engineering: A Ten-Year Perspective'', edited by Kalle Lyytinen, Pericles Loucopoulos,

John Mylopoulos John Mylopoulos (born 12 July 1943) is a Greek-Canadian computer scientist, Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada, and at the University of Trento, Italy. He is known for his work in the field of conceptual modeling, specifically the de ...

and Bill Robinson, Lecture Notes in Business Information processing, Springer:Berlin/Heidelberg, p. 305‑326. * 2009
"Method engineering: towards methods as services"
''Software Process: Improvement and Practice'', vol. 14, no 3, p. 143‑164. * 2010
"An Intentional Approach to Service Engineering"
with Manuele Kirsch-Pinheiro and Carine Souveyet, ''IEEE Transactions on Services Computing'', vol. 3, p. 292‑305, 2010. * 2013. ''Seminal Contributions to Information Systems Engineering: 25 Years of CAiSE''. With Janis Bubenko,

, Óscar Pastor, Barbara Pernici, Colette Rolland, Arne Sølvberg (eds.).

References

External links

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REMORA by Colette Rolland
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