Liste des conférenciers invités

Titre de la conférence: " How to Deliver a Successful Thesis in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) research".

Dr Driss Benhaddou, Dr. Driss Benhaddou is an Associate Professor at the University of Houston (UH), Texas, and is currently a Fulbright visiting Professor at Al Akhawayn University, School of Science and Engineering, conducting research and teaching activities in the application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in distributed solar energy in smart grid. He is actively involved in optical networking and wireless sensor networks research activities. He developed state of the art wireless and optical networking research lab (www.tech.uh.edu/won) at UH. Dr. Benhaddou has an extensive industrial experience with Lambda Optical Systems and Sprint, where he played a key role in protocol development and systems integration activities. He holds two doctoral degrees in optoelectronics and telecommunication networking from the University of Montpellier II, France, in 1995, and the University of Missouri in 2002. Imagine a building capable of turning up the heat, activating the air-conditioning and even sending surplus solar energy it generated to the main power grid. As the current power grid is evolving toward a “smart grid” concept with power generation and distribution will involve small scale renewable energy technologies, such as solar energy (i.e. photovoltaic (PV)), intelligent buildings will have the capabilities to autonomously decide and act what to do with its environment and with the extra energy it produces. A typical scenario to consider is a customer implementing a solar energy system that will be used to deliver electricity to its needs while interacting with the smart grid for optimum operation of the building. This is a typical Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) that requires a deep integration of computation, communication, and control into physical systems. The presentation will talk about the research process and how to deliver a successful thesis in Cyber-Physical System (CPS).
Imagine a building capable of turning up the heat, activating the air-conditioning and even sending surplus solar energy it generated to the main power grid. As the current power grid is evolving toward a “smart grid” concept with power generation and distribution will involve small scale renewable energy technologies, such as solar energy (i.e. photovoltaic (PV)), intelligent buildings will have the capabilities to autonomously decide and act what to do with its environment and with the extra energy it produces. A typical scenario to consider is a customer implementing a solar energy system that will be used to deliver electricity to its needs while interacting with the smart grid for optimum operation of the building. This is a typical Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) that requires a deep integration of computation, communication, and control into physical systems. The presentation will talk about the research process and how to deliver a successful thesis in Cyber-Physical System (CPS).

Titre de la conférence: " Evolving Smart Information Systems".
Pr. Ajith Abraham Monash University, Melbourne, Australia received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is currently the Director of Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), Scientific Network for Innovation and Research Excellence, USA, which has members from more than 85 countries. He has a worldwide academic and industrial experience of over 20 years. He works in a multidisciplinary environment involving machine intelligence, network security, various aspects of networks,
e-commerce, Web intelligence, Web services, computational grids, data mining, and their applications to various real-world problems. He has numerous publications / citations (h-index 40) and has also given more than 50 plenary lectures and conference tutorials in these areas. Since 2008, he is the Chair of IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Soft Computing and a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Computer Society representing Europe (since 2011). Dr. Abraham is a Senior Member of the IEEE, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK) and the Institution of Engineers Australia (Australia), etc. He is the founder of several IEEE sponsored annual conferences, which are now annual events. More information at: http://www.softcomputing.net.

Titre de la conférence: " Du protocole expérimental à la rédaction scientifique".
Pr. Ahmed Aarab, Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Tanger Maroc. Du protocole expérimental à la rédaction scientifique a pour objectifs : - De sensibiliser le jeune chercheur au savoir et au savoir-faire méthodologique nécessaire tout au long de sa recherche scientifique depuis le développement et élaboration des hypothèses et des protocoles de travail à  la rédaction de son mémoire de thèse ou de ses articles, avec toutes les rigueurs que la norme scientifique exige ; - De susciter le jeune chercheur à développer un esprit scientifique pour mener à bien son travail de recherche. Le jeune chercheur saura ainsi, comment discuter ses propres résultats, comment les situer par rapport à ceux obtenus ailleurs et comment les mettre en valeur ; enfin - De motiver nos étudiants-chercheurs à bien présenter leurs résultats sous forme de communications orale et affichée. Les 3 axes abordés seront les suivants :
AXE 1: Développement des hypothèses et de la mise en place du protocole de travail, ainsi que le traitement des résultats, à leur discussion ainsi qu’aux conclusions qui en découlent. AXE 2: Différentes règles et normes exigées pour une rédaction scientifique rigoureuse.
AXE 3: Règles et techniques de la communication scientifique aussi bien orale qu’affichée.