Yves Caseau is currently Bouygues Telecom's EVP in charge of Services and Innovation, since January 1st, 2007. He was Bouygues Telecom's CIO from 2001 until 2006. Bouygues Telecom is the third mobile phone operator in France. As the Chief Information Officer, Yves Caseau was in charge of the overall strategy and development of the IT divisions of Bouygues Télécom. His new assignment includes the development of new telecommunication services, research & development and total quality management, which includes sustainable development, security and business process management.
His main scientific interests are open system architecture, complex systems and business activity models (from cost forecast to market simulation), including stochastic and game-theoretical models. From a more general perspective, his themes of interest include organization theory, social networks, CMC (computer-mediated communication) and information flows.
Until November 1st, 2001, Yves Caseau was the corporate Director of New Technologies at Bouygues (Corporate Headquarters) and Director of the Bouygues
"e-Lab", providing key technologies and vision to Broadcast and Telecom subsidiaries of the Bouygues Group. Dr. Caseau has been a major contributor to strategic tasks such as the re-engineering of the IT systems architecture of Bouygues
Telecom or the on-line optimization of advertising revenue.
Prior to joining Bouygues in 1994, Dr. Caseau was a Research Director at Telcordia (formerly Bellcore). He is a worldwide reputation expert on hybrid algorithms for combinatorial optimization. His work has led to two patents and many world-class
optimization software, such as workforce and routing optimization. He has taught several
courses about optimization and constraint programming.
Yves Caseau lead several research programs at Bellcore and Alcatel Telecom R&D center where he started his career. He published more than 40 papers on various scientific innovations, covering a large field from combinatorial
optimization to compiler design. He is also the designer of the CLAIRE programming language, a language for solving
optimization problems which is used in different research laboratories as well as software companies.
A former student of the "Ecole Normale
Supérieure" (82), he holds a PhD in Computer Science from Paris XI University
(87) and an "habilitation" from Paris VII University (95), as well as a MBA from the
"College des Ingénieurs".
Yves Caseau is a member of the National Academy of Technologies
A more detailed bio may be found here.
An almost complete bibliography is compiled on the DBPL site. From it, you may derive my historical list of topics of interest. For instance, I have a strong interest on topics such as rule-based languages and object-oriented programming. More recent papers deals with enterprise architecture, application integration and "autonomic middleware".
I wrote a first book on "Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Management" in 2005 (Dunod), which has turned to be an exciting adventure.
I wrote a second book "Information System Performance" (Dunod) that came out in February 2007. Part of this book deals about enterprise organization and information flows, a topic for which I have opened a blog (a summary in French may be found here). I currently plan to translate this book into English this summer.
This is my research agenda. Since I have much less free time than in the past, I have restricted myself to a few "active" subjects.
 | Social (Affiliation) Networks : understanding and optimizing the structure of a corporate meeting systems (CMS) |
| Organizational Architecture (Organization Theory from the information flow angle) |
| Enterprise Architecture, Middleware and Optimization of Quality of Service (OAI), which I have recently embedded into the larger topic called "Biology of Distributed Information Systems". |
| Self-optimizing optimization algorithms (formerly the CECILE project, has evolved into the GETS framework) |
I still participate to the ROADEF challenge as an "amateur". I am also becoming more and more interested about autonomic computing and intelligent autonomous distributed systems. Hence, I have opened a second blog on this topic (the "biology of distributed systems"). Contrary to my first blog, this one is written in English. I will probably evolve more slowly now that I am no longer a CIO.
hobby: the CLAIRE language. My main job, at this stage of the CLAIRE project, is fixing bugs ... fortunately, there are few. I am more into finite-event simulations and various kinds of weird models these days (see my research agenda). I have a few non-technical hobbies such as cooking or playing (poorly) the piano. I like sports (mountain bike, swimming, skiing, jogging) but my back disagrees with me ... so I had to stop martial arts which I really loved.
family page: www.caseau.com