Oscar Marius Nierstrasz, born October 15, 1957, is a Professor at the Computer Science Institute (IAM) at the University of Berne

University of Berne

The University of Bern is a university in the Swiss capital of Bern and was founded in 1834. It is regulated and financed by the Canton of Bern. It is a comprehensive university offering a broad choice of courses and programmes in eight faculties and some 160 institutes. The university is an...

. 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 (September 2010).

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

Pattern language

A pattern language, a term coined by architect Christopher Alexander, is a structured method of describing good design practices within a field of expertise. Advocates of this design approach claim that ordinary people of ordinary intelligence can use it to successfully solve very large, complex...

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Nierstrasz co-authored several books such as Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns and Pharo by Example.

External references

• Personal page at the University of Berne