Section: Dissemination

Teaching

University

The Edelweiss project is a welcoming team of the École doctorale STIC of the Nice - Sophia Antipolis University (UNSA) .

The members of the project gave the following courses:

• Olivier Corby, Catherine Faron-Zucker, Fabien Gandon and Alain Giboin are in charge of a course on Knowledge Engineering & Semantic Web. It is a one semester course during the last year of the curriculum at EPU (Ecole Polytechnique Universitaire de Nice - Sophia Antipolis, Master 5), 45 hours. They also supervised several student projects.

• Olivier Corby, Catherine Faron-Zucker and Fabien Gandon taught a course on Semantic Web at the Licence professionnelle, IUT, Nice Sophia Antipolis.

• Olivier Corby and Catherine Faron-Zucker taught a course on Semantic Web and Description Logics in a Research Master at UNSA.

• Rose Dieng-Kuntz is responsible for:

  • the course on Knowledge Capitalization and Economic Intelligence (20h) in the framework of the Masters “Audit Informationnel et Stratégique” at the Institut d'Administration d'Entreprises, UNSA,

  • the course on Knowledge Management at ENSI, Tunis.

• Fabien Gandon

  • Two weeks of courses and seminars at Gaston Berger University in St Louis (Senegal) from the 31st of January to the 14 of February on Web technologies with an emphasis on semantic Web frameworks.

  • Ingénierie des Connaissances et Web Sémantique, Master Pro Course, Polytech'Nice Master Pro.

  • Design and maintenance of online tutorials on Corese and Sewese.

• Alain Giboin gave the following courses:

  • EPU, ESSI 3rd year, Module "Interfaces graphiques homme-machine" (GUI), Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis ( http://www.essi.fr/~pinna/MODULEIHM/ ): contribution to the organization of the module, lectures, participation to tutorials, and assessment of students' GUI projects. Supervising the collaboration between the EPU-SI students and the ergonomics students who contribute also to the GUI projects.

  • Master "Ergonomie des Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (ErgoNTIC)", Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis ( http://www.unice.fr/master-ErgoNTIC/ ): in charge of the « EPU Project » with Anne-Marie Pinna-Déry (EPU-SI). The EPU project allows ergonomics students from ErgoNTIC and software engineering students from the EPU-SI to work together as early as the learning phase, so preparing future collaborations when working together in enterprise.

  • EPU (With Olivier Corby, Catherine Faron-Zucker, and Fabien Gandon) ESSI, Knowledge engineering applied to the Semantic Web course": lectures and tutoring of students projects.

• Noureddine Mokhtari : Practical courses on Programming and Web Security at University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Master 3, 24 hours.

Theses

Defended theses:

1. Sylvain Dehors: Semantic Web and Knowledge Management for E-learning , université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis,

Current theses:

1. Phuc-Hiep Luong: Management of a Corporate Semantic Web Evolution , Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris,

2. Noureddine Mokhtari: Extraction and exploitation of contextual, evolving semantic annotations for a virtual community , université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis,

3. Freddy Limpens: Semantic Annotation of Usages and Persons , university of Nice-Sophia Antipolis,

4. Guillaume Erétéo: Detection of emerging communuties of practice and support to their life cycle through semantic annotation of activities, uses and persons

Olivier Corby was reviewer of the PhD thesis of Stéphane Jean from University of Poitiers on OntoQL, un langage d'exploitation des bases de données à base ontologique , december 2007.

Training

We welcomed the following trainees:

• Ouassim Akabbal from Polytech'Nice-Sophia Antipolis: Towards an automatic detection of spatiotemporal relations ,

• Carine Colombo from Polytech'Nice-Sophia Antipolis : Evaluation of collaborative ontology editors ,

• Ibrahima Diop from University Saint-Louis, Senegal : Approximate Matching in an Engineering Memory ,

• Cheikh Niang from University Saint-Louis, Senegal: Distributed Memory Servers ,

• Bassem Makni from ENSI, Tunisie: Semi-automatic Creation of an Ontology and of Semantic Annotations from a Discussion Forum of a Community of Practice ,

• Nizar Ghoula from ENSI, Tunisie: Patent Mining for Generation of Semantic Annotations ,

• Yassine Mrabet from ENSI, Tunisie: Personalization of a Biomedical Website Browsing through User Profile Learning ,

• Minh Tuan Nguyen from IFI, Vietnam: Towards a generic platform for automatic semantic annotations of multimedia documents .