Robert Bertrand France (October 8, 1960 to February 15, 2015) was a Jamaica-born American computer scientist who researched model-driven software development, formal software modeling languages, and analysis tools, becoming a full professor of computer science at Colorado State University. He was co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Software and Systems Modeling journal from 1999 to 2015, and received the Ten Year Most Influential Paper Award at the MODELS 2008 conference for his 1998 paper The UML as a Formal Modeling Notation.
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What approach did Robert France's 1998 paper on the UML propose?
It used formal specification techniques to clarify what UML diagrams mean.
The paper The UML as a Formal Modeling Notation, which Robert France wrote with co-authors, proposed formalizing the UML by using formal specification techniques to gain insight into the semantics of UML notations and diagrams, and it described a roadmap for that approach. Its authors also started the Precise UML group to develop a precise semantic model for UML diagrams.
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Robert Bertrand France (October 8, 1960 – February 15, 2015) was a Jamaica-born American computer scientist.
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born in Jamaica on October 8, 1960
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Robert France died on February 15, 2015
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Jamaica-born American computer scientist
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