Université de Nantes, LRSG

Postal Address	2, rue de la Houssinière, B.P. 92208 44322 Nantes France
Telephon	(03) 02 51 12 58 13
E-mail	Jean.Bezivin@sciences.univ-nantes.fr

Jean Bézivin - Jean Bézivin is professor of Computer Science at the University of Nantes, France. He got his Master degree from the University of Grenoble and Ph.D. from the University of Rennes. Since 1980 he has been very active in Europe in the object-oriented community, starting the ECOOP series of conference (with Pierre Cointe), the TOOLS series of conferences (with Bertrand Meyer), the Objet'9X industry meeting (with Sylvie Caussarieu and Yvan Gallison), and more recently the "UML" series of conferences (with Pierre-Alain Muller). He founded in 1979, at the University of Nantes, one of the first Master programs in Software Engineering entirely devoted to Object Technology (Data Bases, Concurrency, Languages and Programming, Analysis and Design, etc.). His present research interests include object-oriented analysis and design, reverse engineering, knowledge-based software engineering, product and process modelling