List of Tutorials

Here is the first list of the tutorials which will be presented at SETIT 2012 toghether will a short biography of the participating professors


Data Mining with Computational Intelligence

Lipo WANG
SINGAPORE
Dr. Lipo WANG’s research interest is computational intelligence with applications to bioinformatics, data mining, optimization, and image processing. He is (co-)author of over 200 papers and holds a U.S. patent. He has co-authored 2 monographs and (co-)edited 15 books. He has been keynote speaker for several international conferences. He is/was Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member of 20 international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. He is an elected member of the AdCom (Board of Governors, 2010-2012) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) and served as IEEE CIS Vice President for Technical Activities (2006-2007). He is an elected member of the Board of Governors of the International Neural Network Society (2011-2013). He was President of the Asia-Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA) in 2002/2003 and received the 2007 APNNA Excellent Service Award.


AN OVERVIEW ON VEHICULAR AD HOC NETWORKS : TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS

Mohamed ESSAAIDI
MOROCCO
Mohamed Essaaidi is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Morocco, an IEEE Senior Member, and the Chairman of the IEEE Morocco Section. He has authored and co-authored several publications such as books and papers in international journals in the field of Electrical, Communication and Computer Technologies. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal on Information and Communication Technologies since 2007. He has also founded and he is the General Chair of the Mediterranean Microwave Symposium since the year 2000, Information and Communication Technologies International Symposium in 2005 and 2007, and the Co-General Chair of International Conference on Multimedia Systems and Computing in 2009, 2011 and 2012. He has also been involved in the Organizing and Scientific Committees of other several international conferences held worldwide during the last decade. Prof. Essaaidi holds four patents on antennas for very high data rate UWB and multi-band wireless communication networks and high resolution medical imaging systems He was also a member of the IEEE 802.16 Sponsor Ballot Pool of IEEE Standard Association that defined the technical specifications for WiMmax. Moreover, he has supervised several PhD and Masters Theses and has been the principal investigator and the project manager for several international research projects.

ROBUST LINK WEIGHT OPTIMIZATION UNDER DEMAND UNCERTAINTY

Jean-Marie GARCIA
FRANCE
Jean-Marie Garcia obtained his Engineer degree in. He then got a "Master of Applied Sciences" degree from the University of Montreal in 1978, and conducted research activities at Hydro-Québec research center. He obtained his PhD at LAAS in 1980. Then he became in turn research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and research associate with France Telecom R&D at CNET. He then joined LAAS as a CNRS research staff member in 1981, where he was successively responsible for the research groups Parallel Algorithms in Control, Optimisation-Filtering and Parallelism and Telecommunication Networks and Systems. Subsequently, he became Scientific Director of the Delta Parners company. Since 2004, he is the founding director of the startup company QoS Design that was awarded several Innovation prizes. Jean-Marie Garcia is currently a Research Director with CNRS. His research interests encompass stochastic modeling, traffic and queuing theory, telecommunications, optimization and control of large scale systems, autonomic networks, parallelism on clusters and grids. He is the author of more than 120 papers and advised about twenty PhD thesis. He conducted numerous academic and industrial collaborative research projects with telecommunication research centers such as ATT, Vodafone, British Telecom, France Telecom R&D, SFR, Maroc Telecom, Tunisie Telecom, as well as with several key players in the field (Alcatel, Nortel, Ericsson, Samsung...).

THE CONTRIBUTION OF ONTOLOGIES FOR DESIGNING HIGH QUALITY INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR TRACKING CHRONIC DISEASES

Amir HAJJAM EL HASSANIE
FRANCE
Dr. Amir HAJJAM received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Haute-Alsace (UHA) in 1990. He joined the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM) in 2002 and performs research activity at the Systems and Transportation (SeT) Laboratory. His current research interest includes heuristic mechanisms and Artificial Intelligence applied in a distributed dynamic framework to networks, telecommunications, intelligent transportation services and e-Health. He is responsible for the research area of e-Health. He is Editorial Board Member of many international journals. He is the author/co-author of 3 books and many international publications in refereed journals and conferences. He was Co-Chair of the first conference eTelemed 2009 and advisory Chair of eTelemed since 2010. He is/was member of the Science Steering Committee for the Annual Conferences IADIS e-Health, eHealth, eTelemed, S2ES, WMSCI, E-MEDISYS, ISIAC, NTMS, SETIT and UML. He has organized many conferences and chaired several technical sessions. He is an expert for various organizations such as the Association Nationale de la Recherche et de la Technologie (ANRT), Agence Régionale de l'Innovation d'Alsace (ARI Alsace) and Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique du Maroc (CNRST). .
He then devoted his efforts to create, with others, a Cooperative Laboratory in Telecommunications for Space and Aeronautics, involving 9 laboratories, 2 major industries and 2 institutions in this domain. Prof. Castanie is now the Director of this Laboratory (TeSA) which started his activity in 1999. Together with this activity in TeSA, he joined the CNRS Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT) in 2002, where his heading the Signal and Communication Group.
From the beginning of his career, he has been involved in Signal Processing, mainly in Digital Signal Processing and Parametric Signal Modeling, with a particular attention to Automatic Recognition. His research interests have moved to Wavelet decomposition with application to change detection in Stochastic Processes, and to Neural Network processing, with a special emphasis on time series and signal modeling. A today's major application domain of his activity in this latter theme is the Satellite Mobile Communication Domain, with a special involvement in Identification and Equalization of Non Linear and Time Varying Communication Channels. For his activity in Mobile Communications, Prof. F. Castanie has been a coordinator in European Research project (ACTS program) and has served as an Expert of the EEC in various programs.
He has several responsibilities in research societies at the national level (SEE) and at the international level : he had been Chairman of the French Chapter of Signal Processing of the IEEE, from 1992 to 2002.

AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION AND SEMANTIC CLASSIFICATION OF PRODUCT REVIEWS FROM WEB DOCUMENTS

Shishir K. SHANDILYA
INDIA
Prof. Shishir K. SHANDILYA is an excellent academician and active researcher with proven record of teaching and research. Prof. Shandilya is awarded by the title of Young Scientist for consecutive two years (2005 & 2006) by Indian Science Congress & MP Council of Science & Technology for Computer Engineering. He also carries various awards like Computer Wizard-2002 and Excellent Mentor-2008. Prof. Shandilya has written five international-fame books and published over 50 quality research papers in international & national journals & conferences. Prof. Shandilya is actively steering the international conferences as Conference Chair and international journals as Reviewer & Coordinator. Prof Shandilya is an active member of over 20 international professional bodies. Prof. Shandilya is working as Principal Investigator on various research projects sponsored by Govt. of M.P. Prof. Shandilya achieved excellent result in all the subjects he has taught till date and renowned as best faculty of NRI Group of Institutes. He is also an excellent programmer and credited various software projects in his account. He is giving consultancy in IT to various MNC’s as Sr. Consultant. Apart from his technical & social achievements, he has coordinated and organized various national events which have provided the organization, a standard of repute. The All-India Youth Engineers Conference, AICTE sponsored Staff Development Program and National Children’s Science Congress are few among various technical events.

SECURITE ET SURETE DE FONCTIONNEMENT DES SYSTEMES DE TRANSPORT FERROVIAIRES

Habib HADJ-MABROUK
FRANCE
Habib HADJ-MABROUK a obtenu la thèse de doctorat en automatique industrielle et humaine en 1992 à l’Université de Valenciennes et la thèse d’Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) en 1998 à l’Université de technologie de Compiègne. Depuis janvier 1993, il est chargé de recherche 1ere classe à IFSTTAR : Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux(ex.INRETS). Il est le fondateur de trois Masters en "Sécurité et sûreté de fonctionnement des Systèmes Industriels" Il a contribué avec la Direction des transports terrestres du Ministère des transports à l’élaboration d’un nouveau décret relatif à « la sécurité du réseau ferré national » qui a été publié au Journal Officiel du 1er avril 2000. Depuis janvier 2004, il a été désigné « Expert évaluateur » auprès de l’agence européenne de certification ferroviaire CERTIFER. Spécialité : “analyse de risques, facteurs humains et réglementation en matière de sécurité ”. En juillet 20011, il vient de fonder l'association des jeunes chercheurs Tunisiens en sécurité des transports "ACTSET".

NATURAL COMPUTING AND BIOINFORMATICS

Francesco MASULLI
ITALY
Prof. Francesco MASULLI is the recipient of the Pattern Recognition Society Award for 2008 and Senior member of IEEE. Associate Professor of Computer Science with the University of Genoa (Italy) and Adjunct Associate Professor with the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia (PA, USA). His past appointments include the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics, the Ansaldo Automazione Co., and the University of Pisa (Italy). He has been also a visiting scientist at University of Nijmegen (Holland), at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley (California), and at the Nice Sophia Antipolis University (France). Author of more than 140 scientific papers on Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems and Bioinformatics. Chair the Task Force on Neural Networks of the Technical Committee on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Co-Chair of the Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics of the International Neural Network Society, Vice-Chair of The Italian Chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

IMAGE PROCESSING VS RFID

Christos LIAMBAS
GREECE
Christos LIAMBAS

TV WHITE SPACES SPECTRUM: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS, OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

Rashid A. SAEED
SPAIN
Rashid A. SAEED received BSc in Electronics from SUST, 1999; MSc. from Karary University, 2002, Sudan and PhD in wireless communications from UPM, 2007, Malaysia. He served as senior researcher in MIMOS Berhad, TMR&D and IIUM in 2007, 2009 and 2010, respectively, where he has been awarded the “Golden and then platinum badges” as best researcher in MIMOS. Since 1999, Dr. Rashid is an TE, Lecturer and then assistant professor in Sudan University of science and Technology (SUST), Electronics Engineering school. He published over 100 research papers in the area of UWB, cognitive radio and radio resources management. He is also successfully awarded 2 U.S and 10 local patents. Rashid is WiMAX RF engineer and core network Engineer certified from WiMAX forum. He published three books about TVWS, femtocell and UWB. He is also Six Sigma™, certified Black Belt based on DMAIC++ from Motorola University. He is a senior IEEE memebr, IEM Malaysia and Sigma Xi member.

THE « FORGET-ME-NOT » ENERGY

Jacques ROTURIER
FRANCE
Prof. Jacques ROTURIER, retired from University of Bordeaux (France), is nowadays an independent scientist yet involved in energy issues. From early 1960’s and during about 20 years, he used to be a nuclear physicist. Very deeply concerned with the impact of 1970’s oil shocks, he moved to energy efficiency sciences in early 1980’s to build and implement European Energy–Efficient Office Technologies and Ecocampus (conscious environmental management of university campuses) R-D programmes. At the moment, he continues to be concerned with Sustainable Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technologies, a very promising and exciting part of the SETIT.

METODA DIFERENTELOR FINITE

Florin CONSTANTINESCU
ROMANIA
Prof. Florin CONSTANTINESCU
EDUCATION: Engineer (M.Sc. equivalent), Faculty of Electronics, Bucharest Polytechnic Institute, domain: industrial electronics. Dr. ing., Bucharest Polytechnic Institute, domain: circuit theory (synthesis of nonlinear circuits).
POSITION: professor of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, "POLITEHNICA" University, Bucharest. SCIENTIFIC COMPETENCE AREAS Circuit Theory (qualitative properties of nonlinear circuits, symbolic analysis of linear circuits, synthesis of nonlinear resistive circuits, fast computation of the periodic steady state in nonlinear circuits, reduced order circuit models, two-rate time domain analysis of RF circuits, transient analysis algorithms, envelope following algorithms). Modeling and simulation of power BAW resonators and filters. Analog circuit design. Stationary field computation in nonlinear materials.

MULTI-DIMENSIONAL WI-MAX SECURITY PROTOCOL

K. Kokula Krishna Hari
INDIA
Dr. K. Kokula Krishna Hari, Founder & President ofthe Techno Forum Group, Pondicherry- India & Chief Patron & General Chair - ICCA '12

HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION IN TRANSPORT: PERSONALIZATION, TRAVELER INFORMATION, USER-CENTERED DESIGN

Christophe KOLSKI
FRANCE
Pr. Christophe KOLSKI has obtained his Ph.D in 1989. He is professor in Computer Science at the University of Valenciennes (France) and head of the “Human-Computer Interaction and Automated Reasoning” research group in the LAMIH.
He is involved in several research networks, projects and associations and is a referee for many scientific journals and conferences. He was the president of the organization committee of the CADUI'2002 conference, co-president of the scientific committee of the IHM'2003 & ERGO-IA'2006 conferences, co-organizer of the Ergo-IA’2009 and 2011 workshops. He is specialized in human-computer interaction, software engineering for interactive systems and intelligent system design. He is author or (co-)editor of several books, author or co-author of more than 50 articles in journals and numerous communications in conferences.
He has edited recently two books: “Interaction homme-machine dans les transports - personnalisation, assistance et informations du voyageur » (in French, Hermes Science Publications, Paris, ISBN 978-2-7462-3010-1, 2010) and “Human-Computer Interactions in Transport (ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc., ISBN 978-1848212794, 2011).