Professor Colette Rolland
Visiting ProfessorMSIS Research Group |
Colette Rolland is Professor at the University Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne in the Informatics & Mathematics department since 1979; Director of the CRI (Centre de Recherche en Informatique: http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/); and Visiting Professor at the School of Business and Economics, Loughborough.
Her research interests lie on topics such as conceptual modelling, methodologies and CASE tools, method engineering and CAME tools, requirements engineering, business process modelling, IS and business alignment and change management. She has been involved in a large number of European research projects and used to lead cooperative research projects with companies. Colette has an extensive experience in supervising PhD theses (96); she published about 300 reviewed papers in Journals and Conferences, has been editor of 25 Conference Proceedings, is member of the board of 15 International and has delivered more than 50 keynote talks in International Conferences.
She is an IFIP officer, IEEE fellow and received several awards such as IFIP Silver Core, IFIP service Award, Franqui’s Foundation award (Belgium) and European award of ‘Information Systems’. She is Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Geneva. Colette is also a visiting academic at Loughborough where she cooperates with the research group on enterprise modelling and IT alignment.
These are as examples of two recent publications: ‘An Intentional Approach to Service Engineering’, to be published in TSC, 2010, ‘Exploring the Fitness Relationship between System Functionality and Business Needs’, in Design Requirements Engineering – A Ten-Year Perspective, Kalle Lyytinen, Pericles Loucopoulos, John Mylopoulos, William Robinson (eds), MIT press, 2009.

