Oscar Nierstrasz

Who is Oscar Nierstrasz?

Oscar Marius Nierstrasz, born October 15, 1957, is a Professor at the Computer Science Institute at the University of Berne, and a specialist in software engineering and programming languages. He is active in the field of

programming languages and mechanisms to support the flexible composition of high-level, component-based abstractions, and

tools and environments to support the understanding, analysis and transformation of software systems to more flexible, component-based designs.

He has led the Software Composition Group at the University of Bern since 1994 to date.

CyberChair, an Online Submission and Reviewing System, is based on Oscar Nierstrasz's publication called Identify the champion, where he described the peer review process for contributions to scientific conferences using an organizational pattern language.

Nierstrasz co-authored several books such as Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns and Pharo by Example. He was editor of the Journal of Object Technology from 2010 to 2013, succeeding the founding editor, Richard Wiener.