Colette ROLLAND is currently Professor of Computer Science in the department of Mathematics and Informatics at the University of PARIS-1 Panthéon Sorbonne where she has worked since 1979. She leads a Master degree in ‘Information & knowledge Systems’ and a PhD curriculum in ‘Information & decision systems’ jointly with CNAM and ESSEC.

Her research interests lie in the areas of information modeling, databases, temporal data modeling, object-oriented analysis and design, requirements engineering and specially change engineering, method engineering , CASE and CAME tools, change management and enterprise knowledge development. She is Director of the Centre de Recherche en Informatique and supervises a team of 12 full time Associate Professors and 25 research students that are active in these areas. She has supervised 84 PhD theses and has an extensive experience in leading research projects and conducting co-operative projects with the industry. Her research work has been supported by funding of the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), INRIA (Institut National de la Recherche en Informatique et Automatisme), MRT (Ministry of Research and Technology) and by the Commission of the European Communities under the ESPRIT & STI programs (TODOS, BUSINESS CLASS, FROM FUZZY TO FORMAL, RENOIR, ELEKTRA, ELKD, E-UTILITIES) and the Basic research program (NATURE, CREWS).

Professor Colette ROLLAND is the originator of the REMORA methodology for the analysis, design and realization of information systems that is one of the precursors of object-oriented methodologies. She is the co-author of 7 textbooks; editor of 25 proceedings and author or co-author of over 280 invited and referred papers. She is in the editorial board of a number of journals including the Journal of Information Systems, the Journal on Information and Software Technology, the Requirements Engineering Journal, the Journal of Networking and Information Systems, Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal, Journal of Data Base Management and the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems. She is member of about twelve international program committees per year and has been chairperson of 20. 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.

Colette has been awarded a number of prices including the IFIP Silver Core, IFIP service award, the Belgium price ‘de la Fondation Franqui’ and the European price of ‘Information Systems’.