Franck Barbier wrote his Computer Science (CS) thesis about the executability of object-oriented finite state machines at the University of Chambery (France) in 1991. He was an associate professor at the University of Nantes (France) from 1991-1999 and has been a full professor at the University of Pau (France) since 2000. Professor Barbier was the head of the CS research department of the University of Pau from 2000-2004 and deputy head of the Information and Communication Technologies department of the French Research Agency (ANR, ""The French NSF"") from 2009-2012.
In the 1990s, Professor Barbier carried out three software realizations: PauWare (main author), BLU AGE (participation only), and Intelligent Software Factory (main author), sold by the Reich Technologies company. Over the last two decades, he has had approximately 50 large-scale responsibilities (training, consultancy, etc.) in international companies, including acting as a scientific consultant to Reich Technologies, one of the 17 companies that built UML 1.1 at the OMG in 1997. To that extent, he was also co-author of the documents submitted by the Australian DSTC consortium for the building of UML 2 in 2003, and from 2006-2015 he was a scientific consultant at Netfective Technology, the editor of the BLU AGE modeldriven development tool suite.
Professor Barbier has supervised 15 computer science theses in France, Spain, and Sweden; published 6 books (as editor or author); and written approximately 140 articles in refereed journals, books, conference proceedings, and professional magazines, including e-magazines. His research activities and interests include object/component/service modeling through UML and the State Chart XML W3 standard, model-driven development, software design, test and runtime management for mobile and Internet software, software adaptation, executable models, and models at runtime.
"If I may harken back to my initial disclaimer, namely, that I'm not an Internet programmer, I wish to say that in 1988 (in an aerospace venue) I urged my employer to purchase Harel's StateMate tool. The proverbial bean counters did their job in rejecting the request. I'm happy to see this excellent book's arrival, along with its open-source superstructure. It is very much worth reading, both for theory and for real-world application to complex event-driven systems." - George Hacken for ACM Computing Reviews
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