Colette Rolland (born 1943, in Dieupentale,

Tarn-et-Garonne Tarn-et-Garonne (; oc, Tarn e Garona ) is a department in the Occitania region in Southern France. It is traversed by the rivers Tarn and Garonne, from which it takes its name. The area was originally part of the former provinces of Quercy and ...

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...

) is a French computer scientist 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 higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, th ...

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

meta-modeling A metamodel or surrogate model 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 ...

, 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 higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, th ...

, 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 a large number of European research projects and used to lead cooperative research projects with companies. She is currently Professor Emeritus of Computer Science in the department of Mathematics and Informatics. Rolland is in the editorial board of a number of 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 has been awarded a number of prizes 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 operations to specify data semantics for a chosen domain of discourse. Typically it specifies relations between kinds of t ...

databases In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases spa ...

, temporal data modeling, 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 discipline to construct new methods from existing methods".F. Harmsen & M. Saeki (1996). "Comparison of four method engineering languages". In: Sjaak Brinkkemper et al. (eds.) '' ...

, CASE and CAME tools,

change management Change management (sometimes abbreviated as CM) is a collective term for all approaches to prepare, support, and help individuals, teams, and organizations in making organizational change. It includes methods that redirect or redefine the use of ...

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 Jacobus Nicolaas (Sjaak) Brinkkemper (born Monnickendam, 18 January 1958) is a Dutch computer scientist, and Full Professor of organisation and information at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University. Biography B ...

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. Biograp ...

, Andreas Opdahl and

, 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, tutorial ...

'', 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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