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WELCOME TO THE BIANNUAL 23th WORKSHOP ON INTELLIGENT

MACHINES: THEORY & APPLICATIONS IN SOUSSE-TUNISIA!

Dear WIMTA Participant,

On behalf of the Workshop committee, it is our great pleasure to welcome you to the

twenty third Intelligent Machines: Theory & Applications Workshop (WIMTA’23). Intelligent

machines and/or technologies remain among the main technological cornerstones of

emerging applications of the twenty-first century.

The biannual REGIM-Lab Workshop is thus an excellent opportunity for the

dissemination and exchange of latest PhD student research results and for the presentation

of technical innovation on all aspects of machine intelligence and linked data. The workshop

will mainly feature plenary talks, practical sessions, PhD student presentations (oral and

poster) and exhibition of developed applications. Four awards will be announced in the

closing session for respectively the best poster, the best oral presentation, the best poster

and the best demo.

Putting together such a massive event requires an outstanding and hard-working

team. We owe all members of the workshop Committee our gratitude for doing such an

excellent job. Our sincere thanks go also to the PhD students as well as the speakers for their

valuable efforts that have made this meeting a resounding success.

We hope you find both the workshop and its location enjoyable and that you take

benefit of the interactions with the amazing and interesting people that you will meet here!

General Chairs: Adel M. ALIMI - Chokri BEN AMAR - Mounir BEN AYED - Mourad ZAID – Moncef CHARFI Mohamed Fadhel SAAD

Workshop Chair: Fadoua DRIRA

Program Chair: Mohamed NEJI

Finance Chair: Habib KAMMOUN

Program Committee:

Boudour AMMAR - Leila BACCOUR - Nesrine BAKLOUTI - Najib BEN AOUN - Mohamed BEN HLIMA - Souhir BOUAZIZ - Habib DHAHRI - Ridha EJBALI - Walid ELLOUMI - Akram ELKEFI - Olfa JEMAI - Hanen GUESMI - Ilhem KALLEL - Hichem KARRAY – Zied KECHAOU - Amel KSIBI- Héla LAJMI - Mahmoud MEJDOUB - Ikram MOALLA - Sourour NJEH - Hanene TRICHILI - Ahlem WALHA - Ali WALI

Local organizing Committee: Yassine ARIBI - Raja FDHILA - Wael OUARDA - Houssem TURKI

23th Workshop on Intelligent Machines: Theory & Applications (WIMTA’23)

Program at a Glance, December 25-28, 2014, El Ksar Hotel, Sousse – Tunisia

25 December 2014 26 December 2014 27 December 2014 28 December 2014

08:30-09:00

Registration Cloud Computing

Pr. Samir Tata

PSO tutorial Dr. Nizar Rokbani

Strategic Monitoring : Issues on Research Quality and Meeting Researcher’s Needs

Dr. Ilhem Kallel

09:00-09:15

Round Table and Closing Session

09:15-09:30 Python Tutorial Dr. Habib Dhahri

09:30-09:45

Orientation Session

Pr. Adel M. Alimi iPerception Oral Session

09:45-10:00

10:00-10:15 Data fusion Dr. Hanen Guesmi

10:15-10:30

10:30-10:45

10:45-11:15 Steps To a successful conference

Dr. Hela Lajmi

BigData tools Dr. Walid Elloumi & Mr. Abdelkarim

Ben Ayed

11:15-11:30 Break Break Break

11:30-12:00 Presentation of IR2M Laboratory Pr. Abdelkarim Haqiq

iPerception + iRobotics Teasers P1,P2,P3,P4,P5,P6,P7,P8,P9,P10,P11,P12, P13, P14 P15, P16, R1,R2

New trends in Google tools Mr. Houssem Eddine Lassoued

12:00-12:15

iPerception Demos and Posters

P1,P2,P3,P4,P5,P6,P7,P8 P9,P10,P11 P12, P13, P14, P15, P16

iRobotics Demos and Posters

R1, R2

12:15-12:45 New trends in TIC Pr. Aoued Boukelif

Automated Negotiation Mme. Fatma Ben Said

12:45-13:00 Closing session for PhD Students

13:00-14:30 Lunch Lunch

14:30-15:00 Welcome Session

Dr. Fadoua Drira & Dr. Mohamed Neji iData Oral Session

Excursion /

Free Session

15:00-15:15 Teams Presentation iPerception: Dr. Ali Wali

iRobotics: Dr. Nizar Rokbani iComputation: Dr. Souhir Bouaziz

iData: Dr. Mounir Ben Ayed

15:15-15:30

iComputation Oral Session

15:30-15:45

15:45-16:00

16:00-16:15 Break Break

16:15-17:15 GPU with openCV/Matlab

Dr. Ahlem Walha & Dr. Souhir Bouaziz

iData + iComputation Teasers D1,D2,D3,D4,D5,D6,D7,D8,D9,D10,D11,D12,D13,D14, C1,C2

C3,C4,C5,C6,C7,C8,C9,C10,C11,C12,C13,C14,C15,C16

17:15-18:15 ISO9001 REGIM-Lab Certification

Dr.Mehdi Ellouze and all pilots process

iData Demos and Posters

D1,D2,D3,D4,D5,D6,D7,D8D9,D10,D11D12,D13, D14

iComputation Demos and Posters

C1,C2,C3,C4,C5,C6,C7,C8 C9,C10,C11,C12,C13,C14,C15,C16

18:15-19:00

21:00-23:30 Social Activity Social Activity

Thursday, December 25, 2014

08:30-09:30 Registration

09:30-10:45 Orientation Session

Pr. Adel M. Alimi (Director of the REGIM-Lab, Univ. of Sfax)

Biography: (IEEE Student Member’91, Member’96, Senior Member’00) He graduated in Electrical Engineering in 1990. He obtained a PhD and then an HDR both in Electrical & Computer Engineering in 1995 and 2000 respectively. He is full Professor in Electrical Engineering at the University of Sfax, ENIS, since 2006. Prof. Alimi is founder and director of the REGIM-Lab. on intelligent Machines. He was advisor of 52 PhD Thesis. He is the holder of 15 Tunisian patents. He served also as Expert evaluator for the European Agency for Research since 2009. He managed funds for national scientific projects and 22 international scientific projects. His research interests include iBrain (Evolutionary computing, Swarm intelligence, Artificial immune systems, Fuzzy Sets, Uncertainty analysis, Fractals, Support vector machines, Artificial neural networks, Case Based, Reasoning, Wavelets, Hybrid intelligent systems, Nature inspired computing techniques, Machine learning, Ambient intelligence, Hardware implementations, Multi-Agent Systems) & iPerception (Classification, Classifiers Combination, Features Extraction, High Dimension Classification Problems, Handwriting Recognition, Handwriting Modeling, Motor Control, Perception, OCR, Arabic Script, Historical Documents Analysis, iDocument, iVision, Remote Sensing, Affective Computing) & iData (Big Data, iWeb, Biometry,Data Mining, Web Mining, Cloud Computing) & iRobotics (Robotics, Multi-Robot, Autonomous Robots, Complex and Distributed Systems, Parallel and Distributed Architectures, Intelligent Control, Embedded Systems) Prof. Alimi served as associate editor and member of the editorial board of many international scientific journals (e.g. "IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Systems", "Pattern Recognition Letters", "NeuroComputing", "Neural Processing Letters", "International Journal of Image and Graphics", "Neural Computing and Applications", "International Journal of Robotics and Automation", "International Journal of Systems Science", etc.). He was guest editor of several special issues of international journals (e.g. Fuzzy Sets & Systems, Soft Computing, Journal of Decision Systems, Integrated Computer Aided Engineering, Systems Analysis Modelling and Simulations). He organized many international conferences: ICDAR’2015, SoCPaR’2014, ICALT’2014&2013, ICBR’2013, HIS’2013, IAS’2013, ISI’12, NGNS’11, LOGISTIQUA’11, ACIDCA-ICMI’05, SCS’04ACIDCA’2000. For more information, see http://members.regim.org/adelalimi/

10:45-11:15 Steps to a successful conference

Chairs: Pr. Adel M. Alimi (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia) & Dr. Hichem Karray (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia)

Dr. Hela Lajmi (Univ. Of Sfax, Tunisia)

Abstract: Conferences are very important manifestations where the researchers could promote their studies. The

choice of the suitable conference is a crucial task to guarantee the acceptation of the submitted papers. However, having an accepted paper is not limited to this task but there are several steps to validate. In this presentation, we will describe the key steps to succeed a conference.

Biography: Hela Lajmi was born in 1985. She received the Graduate degree in computer science

and the Master degree in new technologies of dedicated computing systems from the National

School of Engineers of Sfax, in 2008 and 2010, respectively. She has a doctorate in computer

engineering from 2014. Her research interest includes V, V2V and V2I communication, network

analysis, and industrial processes.

http://members.regim.org/adelalimi/


11:30-12:15 Presentation of IR2M Laboratory


Pr. Abdelkarim Haqiq (IR2M Laboratory, Morocco)

Biography: Dr. Abdelkrim HAQIQ has a High Study Degree (DES) and a PhD, both in

the field of modeling and performance evaluation of computer communication

networks, from the University of Mohamed V, Agdal, Faculty of Sciences, Rabat, Morocco. Since

September 1995 he has been working as a Professor at the department of Mathematics and Computer

at the Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Settat, Morocco. He is the Director of Computer, Networks,

Mobility and Modeling laboratory and the responsible for engineering education in Computer

Engineering at the same Faculty. He is also the General Secretary of the electronic Next Generation

Networks (e-NGN) Research Group, Moroccan section.

Dr. Abdelkrim HAQIQ is actually Co-Director of a NATO multi-year project and Co-Director of a

Moroccan Tunisian research project. Dr. Abdelkrim HAQIQ's interests lie in the areas of modeling and

performance evaluation of communication networks, cloud computing and security. He is the author

and co-author of more than 80 papers (international journals and conferences/workshops). He was a

publication co-chair of the NGNS’2014. He was also an International Steering Committee Chair and TPC

Chair of the international conference on Engineering Education and Research 2013, iCEER’2013 and a

TPC co-chair of the NGNS’2012. Dr. Abdelkrim HAQIQ was the Chair of the NGNS’2010. He is also a TPC

member and a reviewer for many international conferences. He was also a Guest Editor of a special

issue on Next Generation Networks and Services of the International Journal of Mobile Computing and

Multimedia Communications (IJMCMC’2012), and a special issue of the Journal of Mobile Multimedia

(JMM’2014).

12:15-13:00 New trends in TIC


Pr. Aoued Boukelif (Univ. of SBA, Algeria)

Abstract: This last decade, the ICT attracted a great number of teachers and students, but did this means that the ICT represents a real advantage to the education process? The scope of this talk is to introduce the current and emerging trends of ICT in education. The case of the Algerian educative system will be presented.

Biography: Pr. Aoued Boukelif obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Sidi Bel Abbes University and his master degree from the Louis Pasteur University. His research interests include image processing, information and communication technologies (ICT), Current and emerging trends and usages of ICT, networking, Multimedia, social and collaborative Media and E-Learning. Pr. Aoued Boukelif is the director of the team “réseaux et mobiles” of the laboratory “Réseaux de Communications, Architectures et Multimédia” of the SBA university.

13:00-14:30 Lunch


14:30-15:00 Welcome Session

Dr. Fadoua Drira (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia) & Dr. Mohamed Neji (Univ. of Gabes, Tunisia)

15:00-16:00 Teams presentation

Chairs: Dr. Fadoua Drira (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia) & Dr. Mohamed Neji (Univ. of Gabes, Tunisia)

iPerception team : Dr. Ali Wali

iRobotics team : Dr. Nizar Rokbani

iComputation team : Dr. Souhir Bouaziz

iData team : Dr. Mounir Ben Ayed

16:00-16:15 Break

16:15-17:15 GPU with OpenCV/Matlab

Chairs: Dr. Ilhem Kallel (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia) & Dr. Nizar Rokbani (Univ. of Sousse, Tunisia)

Dr. Ahlem Walha (Univ. of Sousse, Tunisia) & Dr. Souhir Bouaziz (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia)

Abstract: The objective of this presentation is to introduce GPU and its advantages compared to CPU. In addition, two workshops will be presented OpenCV in C ++ and OpenCL toolbox / Parallel Computing Toolbox in Matlab with some examples for each workshops.

Biography: Ahlem WALHA was born on 1985 in Sfax. She has her PhD degree in Computer Engineering in the National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS), since October 2014. She received the M.S. degree in 2010 from ENIS. She is currently a member of the REsearch Group on Intelligent Machines (REGIM). Her research interests include Computer Vision, Video surveillance analysis. She is a graduate PhD member of IEEE.

Souhir Bouaziz was born in Sfax (Tunisia) in 1984. She is graduated in Computer Engineering in 2008 and obtained a PhD Computer Engineering in 2014 from the National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS). She is currently assistant in the National Engineering School of Gabes (ENIG), and a member of the REsearch Groups in Intelligent Machines (REGIM). Her research interest includes computational intelligence: neural network, evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence.


17:15-19:00 ISO9001 REGIM-Lab Certification

Chairs: Pr. Adel M. Alimi (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia) & Dr. Mounir Ben Ayed (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia)

Friday, December 26, 2014

08:30-09:30 Cloud Computing

Chairs: Pr. Adel M. Alimi (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia) & Pr. Chokri Ben Amar (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia)

Pr. Samir Tata (Telecom Sud-Paris, France)

Abstract: Cloud Computing is an emerging paradigm in Information Technologies. It is increasingly used for hosting, executing and managing applications in general and service-based applications in particular. One of the major assets of Cloud Computing is the provisioning of resources based on pay-as-you-go model. On one hand, Cloud platform facilities cannot always satisfy application requirements especially when their components are heterogeneous as it is the case for service-based applications. On the other hand, deployed applications come with functional properties and may not offer non-functional properties such as monitoring and reconfiguration.

To address these issues, the deployment mechanisms must be flexible enough to support the strong application components heterogeneity and requires no modification and/or adaptation on the Cloud provider side. They should also support automatic provisioning procedures.

In this work, we propose an approach called SPD to provision service-based applications in the Cloud. The SPD approach is composed of 3 steps: (1) slicing the service-based application into a set of elementary and autonomous services, (2) packaging the obtained services in micro-containers and (3) deploying the micro-containers in the Cloud. To manage deployed applications, we have extend Open Cloud Computing Interface standards to dynamically add monitoring and reconfiguration facilities to Cloud resources while remaining agnostic to their level. Monitoring and reconfiguration facilities are coupled in order to add self-management capabilities to service-based applications and Cloud resources.

Biography: Samir TATA is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at TELECOM SudParis, part of Institut Mines-Télécom, France. His current research area includes distributed application and systems, business process management, service oriented computing and their applications in virtual enterprises and cloud environments. He is the responsible of the ACMES research group (CNRS Samovar Lab). He was chair of several international conference and workshops. He was/is member of the steering or the program committee of several international conferences.

For more information, see http://www-inf.it-sudparis.eu/~tata

http://www-inf.it-sudparis.eu/~tata


09:30-11:15 iPerception Oral Session

Chairs: Dr. Mourad Zaied (Univ. of Gabes, Tunisia) & Dr. Mahmoud Mejdoub (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia)

1. Extraction of Association Rules used for Assessing Web Sites Quality from a

Set of Criteria

Rim Walha, Fadoua Drira, Frank Lebourgeois, Cristophe Garcia and Adel M. Alimi

2. Enhancement of Image Representation

Mouna Dammak, Mahmoud Mejdoub and Chokri Ben Amar

3. Modular framework for customizing Software Components in Android

Operating System

Nouha Ghribi, Boudour Ammar and Adel M. Alimi

4. Smart Tablet Based On Human’s Ways of Communication And User’s

Behaviour

Hanene Elleuch, Ali Wali and Adel M. Alimi

11:15-11:30 Break


11:30-12:00 iPerception and iRobotics Teasers (2 mins/poster)

Chairs: Dr. Ilhem Kallel (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia) & Dr. Olfa Jemai (Univ. of Gabes, Tunisia)

12:00-13:00 iPerception and iRobotics Demos and Posters

Chairs: Dr. Ikram Moalla (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia) & Dr. Nizar Rokbani (Univ. of Sousse, Tunisia)

13:00-14:30 Lunch

iPerception Teasers

P.01. Olfa Ben Said, Ali Wali and Adel M. Alimi. Enhancement of TV programs with extra-pedagogical contents

P.02. Rim Walha, Fadoua Drira, Frank Lebourgeois, Cristophe Garcia and Adel M. Alimi. Resolution Enhancement of Textual Images

P.03. Naziha Dhibi, Elkefi Akram and Ben Amar Chokri. 3D Triangular mesh at high resolution : Approximation and modeling

P.04. Ramzi Benali, Ridha Ejbali and Mourad Zaied. Analysis of dental radiographs and anomalies detection

P.05. Ameni Sassi and Chokri Ben Amar. Towards the Identification of Natural Elements in Urban Landscape

P.06. Maroua Tounsi, Ikram Moalla, Adel M. Alimi and Frank Lebourgeois. Localization based Recognition of Text in Natural Scenes

P.07. Mejda Chihaoui, Akram Elkefi, Wajdi Bellil and Chokri Ben Amar. SphereTree regular Mesh

P.08. Amal Ben Hmida, Mohamed Koubaa, Chokri Ben Amar and Henri Nicolas. Real-Time Video Pre-Analyzing for Video Surveillance Applications

P.09. Salma Kssibi, Mahmoud Mejdoub and Chokri Ben Amar. Ré-identification des personnes dans les flux vidéos, basée sur les extensions des méthodes d’encodage d’histogrammes

P.10. Mouna Dammak, Mahmoud Mejdoub and Chokri Ben Amar. Enhancement of Image Representation

P.11. Raouia Frikha and Mourad Zaied Simulation of heart disease using augmented reality

P.12. Nouha Ghribi, Boudour Ammar and Adel M. Alimi. A Programmable Interface for Extending Android ROM

P.13. Hanene Elleuch, Alimi. Smart Tablet Based On Human’s Ways of Communication And User’s Behaviour poster

P.14. Majdi Ben Dhkil, Ali Wali and Adel M. Alimi. Development of a multimodal control in a smart car

P.15. Manel Sekma ,Mahmoud Mejdoub and Chokri Ben Amar.Video action recognition

P.16. Slim Abdelhédi, Ali Wali and Adel M. Alimi. Human activity and behavior analysis in intelligent video surveillance

iRobotics Teasers

R.01. Khaled Salhi and Adel Alimi. Autonomous navigation of a wheelchair using muli-robot System

R.02. Sonia Kefi, Ilhem Kallel and Adel M. Alimi. Towards a new evolving and distributed planning method for multiRobot System


14:30-15:00 iData Oral Session

Chairs: Dr. Mounir Ben Ayed (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia) & Dr. Mohamed Ben Hlima (Univ. of Gabes, Tunisia)

1. Herarchical Traceability of multimedia documents

Faten Chaabene, Maha Charfeddine, Chokri Ben Amar

2. Towards Integration of Soft Biometrics into Face Recognition Systems

Wael Ouarda, Hanene Trichili, Adel M. Alimi and Basel Solaiman

15:00-16:00 iComputation Oral Session

Chairs: Dr. Habib Dhahri (Univ. of Kairouan, Tunisia) & Dr. Abdelkarim El Baati (Univ. of Monastir, Tunisia)

1. Fuzzy Reasoning for Video Semantic Indexing

Mohamed Zarka, Anis Ben Ammar and Adel M. Alimi

2. Wavelet Networks for Drowsiness Detection by Merging Visual

and Emotional Driver's Signs

Ines Tayeb, Olfa Jemai and Mourad Zaied

3. Extraction of Association Rules used for Assessing Web Sites Quality from a

Set of Criteria

Rim Rekik, Ilhem Kallel and Adel M. Alimi

4. Swarm-ants approaches for data clustering problem

Amira Hamdi, Nicolas Monmarché, Mohamed Slimane and Adel M. Alimi

16:00-16:15 Break


16:15-16:45 iData Teasers (2 mins/poster)

Chairs: Dr. Fadoua Drira (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia) & Dr. Souhir Bouaziz (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia)

iData Teasers

D.01. Mahmoud Ahmadi, Ahlem Walha, Ali Wali and Adel M. Alimi. Advanced Network Coding & Security Mechanisms for Multicast Intelligent Video Surveillance

D.02. Nadia B.M Karmani and Adel M. Alimi. Commercial Internet supervision plateform for Arabic tunisian textual Web using cloud computing

D.03. Asma Eladel, Ridha Ejbali, Mourad Zaied and Chokri Ben Amar. A CBIR system based on Wavelet Network

D.04. Wael Ouarda, Hanene Trichilli, Adel M. Alimi and Basel Solaiman. Towards Integration of Soft Biometrics into Face Recognition Systems

D.05. Rim Fakhfakh, Anis Ben Ammar and Chokri Ben Amar. Enhancing image retrieval System by social networking and semantic web techniques

D.06. Ghada Feki, Anis Ben Ammar and Chokri Ben Amar. Ambiguous Query Understanding to Improve Diversity for Semantic-Based Image Retrieval

D.07. Nesrine Charfi, Hanene Trichili, Adel M. Alimi and Basel Solaiman. Individual Recognition based on Hand Shape and Dynamic Signature

D.08. Faten Chaabane, Maha Charfeddine and Chokri Ben Amar. hierarchical traceability for multimedia documents

D.09. Eya Mezghani, Maha Charfeddine and Chokri Ben Amar. Semantic video indexing by watermarking techniques in the compressed domain

D.10. Fatma Kammoun and Mounir Ben Ayed. Intelligent Clinical Dynamic Decision support Systems based on Temporal association rules

D.11. Noura Bouhlel, Amel Ksibi, Anis Ben Ammar and Chokri Ben Amar. Efficient methods for mobile visual search in social media

D.12. Abdelkarim Ben Ayed, Mohamed Ben Hlima and Adel M. Alimi. Big Data clustering using probabilistic C-means Type-2

D.13. Hamdi Kchaou, Zied Kechaou and Adel M. Alimi. An Offloading Framework based on Big Data in Mobile Cloud Computing Environments

D.14. Sahar Chérif, Nesrine Baklouti and Adel M. Alimi. Knowledge extraction using CWW applied to big data


16:45-17:15 iComputation Teasers (2 mins/poster)

Chairs: Dr. Fadoua Drira (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia) & Dr. Souhir Bouaziz (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia)

17:15-19:00 iData and iComputation Demos and Posters

Chairs: Dr. Moncef Charfi (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia) & Dr. Laila Baccour (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia)

iComputation Teasers

C.01. Ines Teyeb, Olfa Jemai and Mourad Zaied. Wavelet Networks for Drowsiness Detection by Merging Visual and Emotional Driver's Signs

C.02. Souad Benomrane, Mounir Ben Ayed and Adel M. Alimi. An Adaptive Multi-Agent System for Ontology Co-Evolution

C.03. Yosra Jarraya, Souhir Bouaziz and Adel M. Alimi. Multi-agent Evolutionary design of Hierarchical Flexible Beta Fuzzy Systems

C.04. Marwa Ammar, Souhir Bouaziz and Adel M. Alimi. Multi-objective evolutionary design of Fuzzy Flexible Beta Basis Function Neural Tree In Multi-agent architecture

C.05. Karim Baati, Tarek. M Hamdani and Adel M. Alimi. A New Intelligent Classifier for Mixed Data

C.06. Amira Hamdi, Adel. M Alimi, Nicolas Monmarché and Mohamed Slimane. Swarm-ant approaches for data clustering problem

C.07. Hamdi Ellouzi, Mounir Ben Ayed, Masoudi Malek and Adel M. Alimi. IDSS for Support Care Scheduling Tasks based on Multi Agent System

C.08. Hajer Brahmi, Boudour Ammar, Farouk Chérif and Adel M. Alimi. Learning system of robotic motion based on recurrent neural networks

C.09. Wissem Abbes, Zied Kechaou and Adel M. Alimi. A framework for improving the execution of an application in cloud environment

C.10. Mohamed Zarka, Anis Ben Ammar and Adel M. Alimi. Fuzzy Reasoning for Video Semantic Indexing

C.11. Emna Ben Ayed, Mounir Ben Ayed, Christophe Kolski, Houcine Ezzeddine and Faiez Gargouri. An approach for the evaluation of Mobile DSS

C.12. Wiam Elleuch, Ali Wali and Adel M. Alimi. Intelligent system for fleet management with GPS vehicle tracking with route optimization

C.13. Hayfa Blaiech and Adel Alimi. An emotion recognition fuzzy system based on the fusion of facial expression and physiological signals.

C.14. Salima Hsairi and Mourad Zaied. Deep Learning of Wavelet Network and its application to pattern

C.15. Fatma Dammak. Leila BACCOUR and Adel M. Alimi. Multi-Criteria Decision Making

C.16. Thouraya Sboui, Philippe Collet and Adel M. Alimi. Software product line for user interface design

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Saturday, December 27, 2014

08:30-09:15 PSO Tutorial

Chairs: Dr. Boudour Ammar (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia) & Dr. Ilhem Kallel (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia)

Dr. Nizar Rokbani (Univ. of Sousse, Tunisia)

Abstract: PSO, is a recognized and well spread optimization technique that showed its capacity in several domains including pure computational problems, robotics and kinematics but also in control and industrial applications. This tutorial will detail how to implement simply a PSO solver in order to see how the different parameters of this algorithm affect its capacity at solving a problem. Key parameters will be investigated as well as key PSO variants. The Tutorial is based on Matlab simulations with a 2008 Ra version as minimum requirements, and is organized as follows:

1. Introduction to PSO 2. PSO processing and parameters 3. Key PSO variants 4. The Impact of PSO parameters on solutions quality 5. How to proof the convergence based on statics 6. How to handle a PSO variant 7. Related techniques

Biography: Dr. Nizar Rokbani is an Assistant Prof of Automation and Industrial Computing at the High institute of Applied sciences and technologies of Sousse, where he is in charge of process automation, Robotics and embedded systems design. He is an IEEE member and served in several volunteering positions in IEEE RAS and SMC Tunisia Chapters since 2009. He organized the IEEE Robocomp robotics competition since 2010. He is very active in promoting open hard electronics with a specific focus on robotics and related applications. Since 2014 he is the President of Tunarduino for academic and educational activities. The association is dedicated to promote open hard and practical robotics.

He was an automation & process engineer until 1998, he was then a technologic trainer at the institute of technological studies of Gabes, occupied a post of training adviser engineer at the national agency of vocational training from 2003 to 2006. Since then, he was with the University of Gabes and Sousse.

His research interests include applications of intelligent techniques such as Swarm intelligence, computational intelligence, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms to robotic systems and industrial processes. He served as an organizing member in several National and international conferences including IEEE ICBR, CEIT, AMTM.

Nizar Rokbani graduated in Electrical Engineering from the National Engineering School of Tunis, ENIT in 1995. He obtained a Master degree in industrial computing in 2003 from the National Engineering School of Sfax, ENIS and a PHD in Electrical Engineering from the same school in 2013.


09:15-10:00 Maching Learning in Python

Chairs: Pr. Chokri Ben Amar (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia)

Dr. Habib Dhahri (Univ. of Kairouan, Tunisia)

Abstract: Python is one of the best programming languages out there, with an extensive coverage in scientific computing: computer vision, artificial intelligence. Unsurprisingly, this holds true for machine learning as well. This presentation aims to list and describe the most useful machine learning tools and libraries that are available for Python. We do not aim to list all the machine learning libraries available in Python but rather the ones that we found useful. Moreover, although some of modules could be used for various machine learning tasks, we included libraries whose main focus is machine learning. For example, although Scipy has some clustering algorithms, the main focus of this module is not machine learning but rather in being a comprehensive set of tools for scientific computing. This presentation offers a brief introduction to the scikit-learn module integrating classic machine learning algorithms.

Biography: Habib Dhahri received the Ph.D degree in Computer Engineering and Master Degree from the National Engineering School of Sfax Tunisia (ENIS) respectively in 2013 and 2001. He joined the Faculty of Sciences and Techniques of Sidi Bouzid since 2012. His current research activities focus on soft computing. His area of interests includes Neural network, Evolutionary computation (Genetic algorithms and Differential evolution) and swarm intelligence (Particle swarm intelligence, Cuckoo search and Artificial bee colony). He is a Reviewer of theNeurocomputing and the Applied Soft Computing journal. He is an IEEE member of CIS and SMC societies.

10:00-10:45 Data Fusion

Chairs: Dr. Ridha Ejbali (Univ. of Gabes, Tunisia) & Dr. Ayman Chaabouni (Univ. of Kairouan, Tunisia)

Dr. Hanene Guesmi (Univ. of Gafsa, Tunisia)

Abstract: There has been an ever-increasing interest in multi-disciplinary research on multisensor data

fusion technology, driven by its versatility and diverse areas of application.

For this fact, in this training we propose to present a comprehensive review of the data fusion state of the art, exploring its conceptualizations, benefits, and challenging aspects, as well as existing methodologies. In addition, we propose to implement a fusion method based on a possibility theory. Then, we propose to evaluate this method on a benchmarks database.

Biography: She holds a PhD degree in Computer Engineering from the National School

of Engineers of Sfax-Tunisia, a PhD degree from high national telecommunication school

of Bretagne-France (within the framework of a joint thesis). Also, she is graduated in

computer management in 2004, and then she obtained a master degree in Information

Systems and New Technologies in 2007, from Faculty of Economics and Management of

Sfax-Tunisia.

Her research interests include intelligent method for pattern recognition, information fusion, biometrics

and image processing.


10:45-11:15 Big Data Tools

Chairs: Dr. Ali Wali (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia) & Dr. Zied Kechaou (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia)

Dr. Walid Elloumi (Univ. of Gabes, Tunisia) & Abdelkarim Ben Ayed (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia)

Abstract: We are currently in the era of the massive production of data. On the one hand, the applications generate data resulting from the logs, networks sensors, transaction reports, GPS traces, etc. and on the other hand, the individuals produce data such as photographs, videos, music, health status data, etc. A problem arises then as for storage and the data analysis. It then becomes necessary to parallel the treatments while storing on several hard drive disk drives. However, that inevitably raises the issue of reliability of the hard drives which generates the material breakdown. The solution considered is the duplication of the data. Apache Hadoop (High-availability distributed object-oriented platform) is a distributed system. On the one hand, he proposes a storage system distributed via his filing system HDFS (Hadoop Distributed Spins System) and this last gives the opportunity of storing the data by duplicating them. In addition, Hadoop provides a system of data analysis called MapReduce. This uses HDFS filesystem to carry out treatments on large volumes of data.

We present the principle of operation of the MapReduce distributed programming model with practical examples under the Matlab environment, the Apache Hadoop environment.

Biography

Walid ELLOUMI received the B.S. degree in computer science from The Faculty of Sciences of Sfax-Tunisia (FSS) in 2003, and the Master degrees in Computer Science from the National Engineering School of Sfax - Tunisia (ENIS), in 2005. In September 2005, he joined the Sfax University (USS), where he was an assistant professor in the Department of Computer science of the Preparatory Institute being studied of Engineers of Sfax (IPEIS). Between 2006 and 2009 he was an assistant professor in the Department of Computer science of Institute Higher Electronic Communication of Sfax (ISECS) and for the year 2009 2010 he served in National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS).

In 2010 he joined Gabes University where he is currently an Assistant professor on Computer science on the High Institute of Industrial Systems of Gabes (ISSIG), Tunisia, Department of Computer science. He is member of the REsearch Group on Intelligent Machines (REGIM). His research interests include Computer Vision, pattern recognition and Swarm Intelligence. These research activities are centered now on Swarm Intelligence. He is an IEEE member. He is member of the Organizing Committee of ACIDCA-ICMI’05, he participated in: IEEE/CIS Distinguished lecturers 2009, Training in English "Writing Reasearch Articles" 2008, Training in English "Listening For Academic settings" 2007, School of Spring on the Systems of Management of Quality for Teaching, Industry and the Services (SYMAQ) 2007, School of Winter on the Valorisation of the Innovation by the Patents (EHVIB) 2006, School of UNIX formation/LINUX 2006, School of Winter on wavelets 2005, Cycle of formation teaching 2005, University spring (time) of teaching 2004.

Abdelkarim Ben Ayed received the Eng. degree in Computer Science Engineering from the National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS, Sfax, Tunisia) in July 2005 and the MS in Automatic and Industrial Computing from the same School in July 2010. He is working as a computer teacher in secondary schools since 2006 and up to now.

He is a PhD student member of the REsearch Group on Intelligent Machines (REGIM) and IEEE member. His research interests include Big Data analysis, fuzzy systems and clustering methods. He has a publication “Survey on clustering methods : Towards fuzzy clustering for big data” in SoCPaR 2014 : The 6th International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition. He participated in many training schools including: Summer School CITA’2014, Spring School on pedagogical teaching’2010, Winter School on LaTEX/Linux 2007 etc.

11:15-11:30 Break


11:30-12:15 New trends in Google tools

Chairs: Pr. Adel M. Alimi (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia) & Dr. Mohamed Néji (Univ. of Gabes, Tunisia)

Dr. Housem Eddine Lassoued (Esprit, Univ. of Tunis, Tunisia)

Abstract: Wearable Technologies are the emerging technologies of glasses, watches, bracelets, gears and several other intelligent mobile devices, connected to internet and equipped with the latest high technological components in accordance with the current needs of the mobile field.

Several innovative technologies change our behavior with everything surrounding us and mainly when interacting with information in the real/virtual world. Some exhibitions of emerging technologies will be given including Google Glass 2.0, Smart Watches, Oculus Rift, Galaxy Gear…

Biography: Dr. Housem Eddine Lassoued is a Google Glass Explorer and Community Manager at Google Developers Group Tunis, a co-founder of the Tunisian Android Community Tunandroid.com and ESPRIT Mobile Association, a senior Android developer, with more than 60 apps on Google Play and Samsung Apps. He works as an associate professor at ESPRIT University in Tunisia. He is the Winner of the Global Android Dev Camp by Google in Berlin 2012 and even of the Arab Information and Communication Technologies Innovation Challenge in 2014.

12:15-12:45 Automated negotiation

Chairs: Dr. Hela Lajmi (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia) & Dr. Walid Elloumi (Univ. of Gabes, Tunisia)

Mme Fatma Ben Said (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia)

Abstract: As an important paradigm of research in the field of decision support system, I propose to discover together the notion of automated negotiation in distributed systems and decision theory. Automated negotiation is used to resolve the complex conflicts in many applications not to say that each researcher have to know this important class of decision support system to manage the different decision problem met. When we speak about the automated negotiation, we are in front of a complex process that I will clarify in this talk.

In my talk I introduce the automated negotiation; I show some applications on this topic also some projects from TuDelft University (Germany). I would like then to show some important open problems to be shared with the audience for discussion as deep learning and automated negotiation.

Biography: Fatma Ben Said was born in Sfax (Tunisia) in 1981. She received the Four-year University Degree in Applied Informatics in Management from Faculty of Economic and Management (FSEG), University of Sfax, Tunisia, in June 2004. She gets the master degree on Computer Science, Dedicated Computer System New Technologies (NTSID) from the National School of Engineers (ENIS), University of Sfax, Tunisia on July 2006. She has been pursuing the Ph.D. degree on Computing System Engineering with the Research Group on Intelligent Machines, ENIS, University of Sfax, since 2007. Her research interests include applications of automated negotiation methods to decision-making systems. She focuses her research on automated negotiation, intelligent decision-making of complex systems. She is an IEEE member.

12:45-13:00 Closing session for PhD Students (Distribution of Awards)

Chairs: Pr. Adel M. Alimi (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia) & Pr. Chokri Ben Amar (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia)

Sunday, December 28, 2014

08:30-09:15 Strategic Monitoring: Issues on Research Quality and Meeting Researchers' Needs Chairs: Pr. Adel M. Alimi (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia) & Dr. Fadoua Drira (Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia)

Dr. Ilhem Kallel (Univ. of Tunis, Tunisia)

Abstract: Strategic Monitoring, or Business intelligence, is an ongoing activity and largely repetitive, to actively monitor the strategic environment (technological, scientific, competitive, economic, commercial, etc.) to anticipate changes. Obtained ethically and legally, it must produce knowledge for action while reducing uncertainty and supports better decision making. The prospective nature of the monitoring in scientific research environment is the fact that it enables research institutions (ministry department, center, laboratory, unit) to detect clues, signs, indicators or "weak signals" in order to anticipate changes in the environment and to identify threats and opportunities. What are the issues and impacts of monitoring on research Quality? Can monitoring help in meeting

researchers' needs? What are the monitoring tools? Are there some software dashboards that help in

monitoring? What about the Regim-Lab case?

Biography: Ilhem Kallel is an As. Professor with the Department of Computer Science at ISIMS-University of Sfax. She is a member of the Research Groups in Intelligent Machines (REGIM-Lab). She received the bachelor degree in computer science in 1988 from the University of Tunis, the MSc graduate degree in Information Systems and new Technologies, and PhD graduate degree in Computing System Engineering, respectively in 2003 and 2009, from the University of Sfax, Tunisia. From 1988, Dr. Ilhem Kallel had a rich professional experience dealing with developing and managing entreprise information systems, training of teachers, teaching fields of computer science in secondary pilot school and in university, etc. Dr. Ilhem Kallel is an IEEE senior member; she is the founder and the past chairwoman of the “IEEE

Women in Engineering” Tunisia section; she is a member of the DIS TC in SMCS, The chair of the IEEE

SMC Tunisia Chapter, and the past chair of the IEEE CIS Tunisia Chapter. She was the winner of the 2011

IEEE Woman In Engineering Clementina Award for Region 8 (Europe, Africa and Middle East), for her

professional and personal achievements; this award attests that she can serve as a role model for

combining professional achievements and family life.

09:15-11:00 Round table and closing session

Suggessions for Exursion to do

Hannibal Parc : Port el Kantaoui

Kairouan

Venue to the Khartago El Ksar hotel