Jolita Ralyté is currently a senior researcher and lecturer in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Geneva. She obtained a Master degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Vilnius, Lithuania in 1993, a Master degree in Information Systems from the University of Paris 1 – Sorbonne in 1995 and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Paris 1 – Sorbonne in 2001 The research areas of Dr. Ralyté include situational method engineering and CAME tool development, requirement engineering, information systems evolution and interoperability and distributed information system development. She has participated in diverse European research projects (TOOBIS, CREWS, INTEROP) and Franco-Tunisian research projects and currently she is in charge of the International Method Engineering Task Group within the IFIP WG 8.1 and the task group TG6 dealing with methods and method engineering techniques supporting various systems interoperability issues within the European NoE INTEROP. Her work had been published in various international conferences (CAISE, ER, ICSP, ISD, IFIP WG8.1 EISIC'02) and international journals (Requirement Engineering, Knowledge-Based Systems). Dr Ralyté has been involved in the organisation of international conferences OOIS'03 and Interop-ESA'05 and international workshops: EMSISE'03 in Geneva (with OOIS'03), SREP’05 in Paris (with RE'05) and Doctoral Symposium in Bordeaux (with I-ESA’06). She co-edited a special issue of Software Process: Improvement and Practice with revised best papers from SREP’05. Dr. Ralyté was a program chair of the IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference ME07 held in Geneva in September 2007. |