Industrial members

Program committee industrial chair

Francis Bretaudeau

Francis Bretaudeau was born in 1954. In 1978 he obtained his engineer diploma from Ecole Centrale de Lille (IDN). He entered in 1979 into ONERA (Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales). From 1979 until 1989, he successively held the following posts: research engineer in automatics, head of the research group in image processing, head of the research subdivision in image processing and optical processing devices. During this period he published about 20 articles in the areas of automatics, image processing, information processing with optical means, and he guided numerous theses. In 1989 he entered in "Matra Sep Imagerie and Informatique" (MS2I), becoming successively "Matra Cap Système" (MCS), then "Matra Système & Information" (MSI), then EADS Systems & Defence Electronics, then EADS Defence & Communication Systems. During this period, he held successively the following posts: deputy manager of the Laboratory for Image and Signal Processing (LTIS), head of the Recce systems design department, deputy manager of the Advanced Programs management, business developer of the Recce systems department, commercial manager of the C2 department, head of the Commercial department of the Economic Interest Group between MSI and Dassault Electronique for Joint C3I information systems, head of the Logistics Information department, head of the Logistics and Planning Systems department, and right now, head of the Security & Logistics Projects department and also head of the Val de Reuil site. In 2009 he was the head of the jury that has awarded the 6 best theses for the CNRS – GDR MACS and the best thesis for the EEA Club.

Other industrial members of the program committee

Henning Butz

Henning Butz works as Senior Manager in the domain of “Avionic Platforms and Electrical Systems” at Airbus Operations GmbH in Hamburg. With his well-staffed team of system- and software-engineers he is responsible for the development and integration of flight critical airborne IT systems. The subjects range from flight data recording and diagnostics to Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) and cockpit avionic conversions of civil Airbus aircraft for military missions. Being with Airbus since 23 years Mr. Butz had worked as a manager in the in the fields of flight control and avionics, processes, methods and tools, and as head of the pre-development of basic aircraft systems. Before entering at Airbus Henning Butz spent several years working at the engineering division for naval systems of MBB GmbH (EADS predecessor), and as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Duisburg where he also was technical adviser for different companies of German engineering and process industry with projects and prototypes in the field of applied system science. Henning Butz studied Electric & Control Engineering at the Universities of Bochum and Karlsruhe, Germany.

Yves Caseau

Dr. Yves Caseau is Bouygues Telecom’s Executive Vice-President in charge of Service Architecture and Innovation. He was Bouygues Telecom’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) from 2001 until 2006. Bouygues Telecom is the third mobile phone operator in France. His new assignment includes the development of new telecommunication services, research & development and total quality management, which includes sustainable development, security and business process management. As CIO, Yves Caseau was in charge of the overall strategy and development of the IT divisions of Bouygues Telecom. Yves Caseau started his career as a research scientist in the fields of software engineering and object-oriented programming at Alcatel’s research lab. He then turned to operations research, while he was working for Bellcore (USA) and then as research director for the Bouygues Group. Yves Caseau graduated from the Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris), holds a PhD in computer science and a MBA from the "College des Ingénieurs". He is a member of the National Academy of Technologies.

Jim Clevenger

Jim Clevenger is President of Silverglobe, Inc. 
Silverglobe is the US based R&D arm of Silverlake System, the premier banking software provider in Asia with over 85 customer sites in Asia including 40% of the Top 20 Largest Banks in South East Asia. 
His 35-year career spans Banking IT/Operations management, consulting, and various design and management positions in banking software companies. His hardware expertise includes IBM mainframes, IBM Iseries including all predecessors beginning with the System/3, and both PC and Mac platforms. His software expertise includes operating systems associated with those hardware platforms and various programming languages including Assembler, ILE/RPG, J2EE, Pascal, C++, C, and associated scripting languages. He has designed and/or written virtually all applications and support systems running in a banking environment during his career.

Claude Feliot

Dr. Claude Feliot has a Phd in Complex Systems Modeling and Engineering. After six years of academic research in the System Engineering field including four years at the C.E.A (the French Nuclear Agency), he acted as a senior expert consultant for the major companies and operators of the french railway industry, on system engineering and process improvement, before joining ALSTOM Transport. He is currently the Core Competence Network (CCN) Leader in charge of ALSTOM Transport system engineering process improvement. He is chairing a national group related to MBSE (Model-Based Systems Engineering).

Hans-Georg Frischkorn

Hans-Georg Frischkorn has joined General Motors in April 2006 as Executive Director of Global Electrical Systems, Controls and Software. He was responsible for design, engineering and release of electrical systems, controls, and vehicle software, enabling the operation of functions on all GM vehicles globally. Including designing the global electrical architectures. Previously he was Senior Vice President of Architecture and Systems Integration at BMW AG, where he had responsibility for electronics and software systems in all vehicle domains in pre- and series development. In 1997 he began his career at BMW as Vice President of In-House Consulting in Development. He was responsible for the re-design of the product development process, including implementation of virtual methods, test and validation strategy, as well as launch readiness and quality. From 1999 to 2001 he was the project leader of the Z4 vehicle program. Prior to his work at BMW, Hans-Georg Frischkorn spent 2 years at McKinsey & Company. He began his career in 1978 with IBM Germany, working his way through positions in Product Development, Systems Engineering, Business Development and IBM Management Consulting.

Rudolf Haggenmüller

Rudolf Haggenmüller, born in 1950, studied mathematics at the universities of Munich and Zurich. From 1974 to 1984 he held several positions at the Institute of Mathematics of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 1995, Rudolf was appointed Professor for Informatics and Mathematics.

From 1984 to 1994 Rudolf worked at Siemens, mainly in the area of Software Engineering. In 1994, he became managing director of FAST, the “Research Institute for Applied Software Technology”, jointly founded by Siemens, BMW and Bayerische Landesbank. On January 1st 2008 FAST together with 4 other IT-subsidiaries of BMW has been merged to Cirquent GmbH. Rudolf since then is a Member of Cirquent’s Executive Board.

Since 14 October 2005 Rudolf Haggenmüller is Chairman of ITEA 2. He is a member of ISTAG, the IST Advisory Group to the European Commission and of the Board of Directors of the Development Gateway Foundation, Washington, USA.

Anthony Hall

Anthony Hall is a systems and software engineer specialising in requirements engineering and in the specification and design of software intensive systems. He has pioneered the use of formal methods of software development in large industrial systems, where he has led the development of operational systems for critical applications in fields such as air traffic control and finance. He has published widely on the practical aspects of formal methods including metrics from industrial projects on their costs and benefits. With colleagues in Praxis he created the REVEAL requirements engineering method, which has been applied to numerous projects ranging from banking security to large-scale infrastructure projects. Anthony is currently an independent consultant and works mainly in industry. He has also taught graduate courses at Carnegie Mellon University and University College London and was for three years Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of York. Anthony has a doctorate from the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the British Computer Society.

Cecilia Haskins

Cecilia is an American living and working in Norway and she holds international certifications as a computer and systems engineering professional. Her 35 year career includes jobs with large and small firms, commercial and government projects, as employee and entrepreneur. Her educational background includes a BSc in Chemistry from Chestnut Hill College, and an MBA from Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, both in the USA and a PhD from NTNU.

Matthew Hause

Matthew Hause is Artisan’s Chief Consulting Engineer, is a member of the OMG SysML specification team, and the co-chair of the UPDM group. He has been developing complex systems for over 30 years. He started out working in the Power Systems Industry, and has been involved in Process Control, Communications, SCADA, Distributed Control, military systems and many other areas of real-time systems. His roles have varied from project manager to developer. His role at Artisan includes mentoring, sales presentations, standards development and training courses. He has written a series of white papers on project management, systems engineering, architectural modeling and systems development with UML, SysML and Architectural Frameworks. He has been a regular presenter at INCOSE, the IEEE, BCS, the IET and other conferences. Matthew studied Electrical Engineering at the University of New Mexico and Computer Science at the University of Houston, Texas.

Jon Lee

Jon Lee is a Research Staff member at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, where he manages the Mathematical Programming group. His current research focus is on nonlinear discrete optimization, including MINLP (mixed-integer nonlinear programming). Jon has over 75 publications, he has been involved in the development of the COIN-OR projects Bonmin (for MINLP) and Couenne (for global optimization), and he is author of "A First Course in Combinatorial Optimization," Cambridge University Press. Jon is currently Chair of the Executive Committee of the Mathematical Programming Society, Chair-Elect of the INFORMS Optimization Society, an Associate Editor of the journal Discrete Applied Mathematics, an Adjunct Professor at New York University (since ’02), a Permanent Member of DIMACS, and a Full Member of the COIN-OR Foundation. Jon received his Ph.D. in Operations Researchh (’86) from Cornell University. He has been a faculty member at Yale University and the University of Kentucky, and he has held visiting fellowships at CORE (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) for ’91-’92 and ’99-’00.

Dominique Luzeaux

Dominique Luzeaux graduated from École Polytechnique (1987) and École Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées (1989) as an armament engineer. His first position was a research engineer in theoretical computer science and robotics. He defended his PhD thesis at the University of Paris XI (1991), and was a visiting research scientist at the University of California at Berkeley (1991-1992). Back to France, he occupied various positions within the Ministry of Defense, successively as an expert, a manager, head of department and technical director, in the fields of robotics, optoelectronics and observation systems. Since April 2009 he is Director of the Division in charge of the procurement of Land Systems.

Besides, he defended in 2001 his Professor thesis, has directed a dozen of PhD students in robotics and computer science, and has published over sixty articles in conferences and international journals. He teaches robotics, theoretical computer science, system engineering, at graduate level in various universities and engineering schools.

Dominique Luzeaux also coauthored with Thierry Puig a book “À la conquête du nanomonde : nanotechnologies et microsystèmes” published March 2007 by Éditions du Félin. He has coauthored two books with Jean-René Ruault, “Systèmes de systèmes : concepts et illustrations pratiques” and “Ingénierie des systèmes de systèmes : méthodes et outils”, published June 2008 by Éditions Lavoisier Hermes Science, and to be published in English by Wiley in 2010 as “Systems of systems: concepts, illustrations, standards and methods”. He has also coauthored one book with Pascal Cantot, “Simulation et modélisation des systèmes de systèmes : vers la maîtrise de la complexité”, published 2009 by Éditions Lavoisier Hermes Science. He is currently working on another book on case studies of systems of systems, to be published by Éditions Lavoisier Hermes in 2010.

Michel Morvan

Michel Morvan joined the group Veolia Environment in January 2009 as its Scientific Director, being in particular in charge of watching and innovation. He is also External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA). He was formerly Professor of computer science at the Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon, Research Director (“directeur d’études”) at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris (chair “Modelling of Complex Systems”) and member of the Institut universitaire de France.

Hillary Sillitto

Hillary Sillitto is Chief Systems Architect for Thales Land & Joint Systems Division in the UK. He graduated in Physics from St Andrews University in 1976, and was awarded an MSc in Applied Optics by Imperial College in 1979. He started his career as an optical engineer working on laser-based products and systems, and on advanced studies for specialist detection systems. He moved to what is now Thales Optronics in Glasgow in 1993, where he contributed to the strategy and early system definition for many of its current products. He subsequently held appointments as Chief Systems Engineer and Chief Engineer, and as Thales UK’s Engineering Director Prime Contract Support, making important inputs into major bids and programmes and to systems engineering process definition. He was seconded to UK MOD from 2005 to 2008 as head of the Integration Authority , responsible for managing system-of-systems interoperability assurance, architecture and interventions across the whole of the MOD’s acquisition programme, and for promoting the development of systems engineering skills and culture. On his return to industry the Integration Authority became the core of the new Systems Engineering and Integration group. He has published 9 successful patent applications in electro-optics, and several papers on systems engineering topics at international conferences, is a Thales Expert, a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol. He is a Past President of the UK Chapter of INCOSE and was elected an INCOSE Fellow in 2009.

David Walden

David D. Walden, CSEP, is co-owner and principal consultant for Sysnovation, LLC, a Systems Engineering consulting and education firm based out of Shakopee, Minnesota, USA. He has served as an independent reviewer, major review (e.g., PDR, CDR) coordinator, Systems Engineering Subject Matter Expert (SME), and process consultant. He has created and taught numerous Systems Engineering courses and tutorials, including a distance learning on-line variant of a Systems Engineering Principles course. Previously, Mr. Walden was with General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems for 13 years and McDonnell Aircraft Company for 10 years. Mr. Walden is currently the Program Manger of the International Council on Systems Engineering’s (INCOSE’s) Certification Program and also serves as the INCOSE liaison to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 Working Groups 10, 20, and 22. He has an M.S. in Management of Technology (MOT) from the University of Minnesota, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Valparaiso University in Indiana.