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Iulian Ober

Associate professor (Maître de Conférences), PhD, HDR

IRIT (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse), MACAO team.
My teaching activity is mainly concentrated at IUT Blagnac, Toulouse-Mirail University.

Mailing address:
 IRIT (Équipe MACAO)
 Université Paul Sabatier
 118 Route de Narbonne
 F-31062 TOULOUSE CEDEX 9
E-mail: iulian [dot] ober [at] irit [dot] fr
Personal certificate (issued by the CNRS authority) : X.509 [.cer] PKCS#7 [.p7b]

News - Current/recent events

Open positions

M2R internship (stage de M2 recherche) : Modeling and validation of Standard Operating Procedures in the field of home assistance.

Research

List of publications

Research topics (present to past)

  • Formal Model-Based System Engineering. Applications in ambient and embedded system design.
  • Model-driven design of safety critical and embedded systems. Check out the website of the IFx-OMEGA tool :
  • Design and verification of real-time systems: IF language and tool-set.
  • Semantics of real-time and distributed systems.
  • Formalisation of object oriented languages. Analysis and design languages. Computer aided software engineering tools.

Program committees

  • 3rd International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies, 2012
  • 19th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, 2012
  • 7th System Analysis and Modelling Workshop (SAM), 2012
  • 4th Workshop on Model-Based Verification and Validation From Research to Practice (MVV), 2012
  • International Workshop on Model-Driven Engineering for Networked Ambient Systems (MDE4NAS), 2012
  • 15th International Conference on System Design Languages (SDL Forum), 2011 (co-chair)
  • 18th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, 2011
  • 13th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 2010
  • 3rd International Workshop on the Certification of Safety-Critical Software Controlled Systems (SafeCert), 2010
  • 3rd International Workshop on Model Based Architecting and Construction of Embedded Systems (ACESMB), 2010
  • 2nd International Workshop on the Certification of Safety-Critical Software Controlled Systems (SafeCert), 2009
  • 2nd International Workshop on Model Based Architecting and Construction of Embedded Systems (ACESMB), 2009
  • MODELS Doctoral Symposium 2009,
  • 1st International Workshop on the Certification of Safety-Critical Software Controlled Systems (SafeCert), 2008
  • 1st International Workshop on Model Based Architecting and Construction of Embedded Systems (ACESMB), 2008 (co-chair)
  • MODELS Research Project Symposium 2008 (chair)
  • 2nd International Workshop on Modeling and Analysis of Real-Time Embedded Systems (MARTES), 2006
  • 1st International Workshop on Modeling and Analysis of Real-Time Embedded Systems (MARTES), 2005

Reviewer for: Journal of Control Engineering Practice, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.

Organized events

Projects (ongoing and past)

FullMDE
European Space Agency Project "Full Model Driven Development for On-Board Software." (2009-2011)
Omega UML2
European Space Agency Activity 3-12639 (2009-2010)
SoCKET
French DGE Project "System on Chip toolKit for critical Embedded sysTems" (2008-2011)
DOMINO
French ANR Project "DOMaINes et prOcessus méthodologique" (2007-2009)
ASSERT
IST Integrated Project "Automated proof based System and Software Engineering for Real-Time" (2004-2007)
OMEGA
IST Project "Correct Development of Real-Time Embedded Systems in UML" (2002-2005)
INTERVAL
IST Project "Formal design, validation and testing of real-time telecommunication systems" (1999-2001)

PhD Students

Iulia Dragomir (2010 - )
Co-advised with C. Percebois
Subject: System to software level refinement of embedded system designs.
El Arbi Abussoror (2010 - )
Co-advised with Ileana Ober
Subject: Advanced diagnostic methods in formal model validation.
Hong-Viet Luong (graduated in October, 2010)
Co-advised with C. Percebois, A-L. Courbis, T. Lambolais
Subject: Incremental construction and verification of system specifications.
Younes Lakhrissi (graduated in July, 2010)
Co-advised with B. Coulette
Subject: Integration of behavior models in view-based analysis and design.

M.Sc. Students

Julien Hadba (graduated in July, 2010)
Subject: Modeling, simulation and verification of ATV's solar panel deployment sub-system with Omega SysML.
Iulia Dragomir (graduated in July, 2010)
Subject: Semantic formalization and verification of composite structures.
Ouzzin Ben Haddou (graduated in July, 2009)
Co-advised with Philippe Dhaussy (ENSIETA, Brest)
Subject: A case study on formal modeling and validation of a space application from CNES.
Tristan Faure (graduated in July, 2007)
Co-advised with Maurice Heitz (CS)
Subject: Integration of the Omega UML profile and tools in the ASSERT IDEA framework.

Short Vitae

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Undergraduate studies (1997)
Licence (BSc/Bac+4), School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Master degree in Computer Science (1998)

School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babes-Bolyai University,Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Research topic : Design and implementation of a UML CASE tool.

PhD (2001)

Specification and validation of timed systems using formal description languages.

École Nationale Supérieure d´Électrotechnique, d'Électronique, d'Informatique, d'Hydraulique et des Télécommunications, Toulouse, France.

Defense committee:

  • Prof. Joseph Sifakis (reviewer),
  • Dr. Roland Groz (reviewer),
  • Dr. Susanne Graf,
  • Dr. Alain Kerbrat,
  • Prof. Zoubir Mammeri (president of the jury),
  • Prof. Bernard Coulette (PhD advisor).

Work supported by Telelogic Technologies Toulose (former Verilog), within the IST Interval project.

[Download thesis (PDF)]

Post-doc - Expert engineer (2002-2005)

VERIMAG laboratory, Grenoble, France.

Research topic : Specification and validation of timed systems using UML

Work performed within the OMEGA project.

Assistant professor (since 2005)
Tenured position at Toulouse-2 University. I conduct my research at IRIT.
Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (13 December, 2010)

Observer pour vérifier, contraindre et interagir. Applications de l'observation à la construction et à la validation des systèmes logiciels.

Université Toulouse 2, France.

Defense committee:

  • Prof. Yves LEDRU, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (reviewer)
  • Prof. Elie NAJM, Télécom-ParisTech, Paris (reviewer)
  • Prof. Dorina PETRIU, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (reviewer)
  • Prof. Jean-Michel BRUEL, Université Toulouse 2 (advisor)
  • Prof. Bernard COULETTE, Professeur, Université Toulouse 2 (president of the jury)
  • Dr. Susanne GRAF, Directrice de recherches, CNRS, VERIMAG, Grenoble