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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)

  • Model-driven development 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

MARTES'05,   MARTES'06,   SafeCert'08,   ACESMB 2008 (chair),   MODELS Research Projects Symposium 2008 (chair),   SafeCert'09,   ACESMB 2009 (steering),   MODELS'09 Doctoral Symposium,   ACESMB 2010 (steering),   MODELS 2010,   SDL 2011 (PC co-chair),   ANT 2012,   MDE4NAS 2012 (co-chair)

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

Organized events

Projects (ongoing and past)

FullMDE (website not yet available)
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 (website not yet available)
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. Applications to systems-on-chip (SoC).
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

(download full CV)

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