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Xavier Franch is associate professor at the Computer Science Department of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (U.P.C.), Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). He teaches courses of data structures, programming with abstract data types and introductory programming. He has written a book on data structures in 1993, which is a basic reference at many spanish universities. He currently leads a group of six people involved in many aspects of component programming: definition of a notation to state non-functional issues of components, automatic synthesis of non-functional attributes, integration of functional specifications and imperative code and definition of software processes. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the U.P.C. in 1996.

Xavier Franch
Sept. 2, 1997