FRANCH, Xavier
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Xavier Franch is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). He received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Informatics from the UPC. His current lines of research include modelling non-functional software requirements, selection of COTS components, component-based software development, and software process modelling. He is an author or co-author of many technical papers presented in conferences in those fields. He is also author of a book on data structures used as basic reference in many Spanish universities. Neil Maiden is a Reader and Head of the Centre for Human-Computer Interface Design, an independent research department in City University's School of Informatics. He received a PhD in Computer Science from City University in 1992. He is and has been a principal and co-investigator of several EPSRC- and EU-funded research projects including SIMP, CREWS and BANKSEC. He is also founder and manager of City University's SAP R/3 Laboratory. His research interests include scenario-based systems development, component-based software engineering, ERP packages, requirements reuse and more effective transfer of academic research results into software engineering practice. Neil has over 80 journal and conference publications. He is also co-founder of the British Computer Society Requirements Engineering Specialist Group.