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Nizar MESSAI
Birthday : June 02 1979
Nationality : Tunisian
Address :
LORIA / INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, ORPAILLEUR Team
Campus Scientifique, B.P.239
54506 Vandœuvre-Lès-Nancy Cedex FRANCE
Phone : +33 (0) 3 83 59 20 55
Cellular : +33 (0) 6 85 09 36 36
E-mail : [email protected]
Homepage : http://www.loria.fr/~messai
CURRENT SITUATION IN 2008-2009
Part-time Assistant professor (ATER)
University : University UHP Nancy 1 / UFR - STMIA
Department : Computer Science
End of contract : August 31, 2009
GRADUATIONS
2009
Phd in Computer Science, UHP Nancy I, Nancy, France
Title : Formal Concept Analysis guided by domain knowledge : Application to biological resources retrieval on the Web.
University : UHP Nancy 1, Nancy, France
Laboratory : LORIA / INRIA Nancy - Grand Est
Team : ORPAILLEUR
Supervisors : Amedeo Napoli
Co-supervisors : Marie-Dominique Devignes and Malika Smail-Tabbone
Thesis defence : March 20, 2009
2004
Master in Computer Science, UHP Nancy I, Nancy, France
Graduation project : Concept Lattices and Domain Ontologies for genomic data
sources classification and retrieval
Supervisors : Amedeo Napoli
Co-supervisors : Marie-Dominique Devignes and Malika Smail-Tabbone
Affiliation : ORPAILLEUR Team, LORIA-INRIA, Nancy, FRANCE
Main courses : Knowledge representation and reasoning, Semantic Web, Text mining,
Design patterns, Distribution and cooperation, Networks (IP, Peer-to-Peer, Routing
and organisation of dynamic networks, Quality of services), Real time scheduling
2000 - 2003
1998 - 2000
1999
Engineering Diploma in Computer Science, Faculty of Science of Tunis, Tunisia.
Graduation project (February - June 2003) : Developing and integrating Web
services in DISCOBOLE cooperation framework
Affiliation : ECOO Team, LORIA-INRIA, Nancy, France
Engineer training project (August 2002) : Design and development of an OSindependent Internet navigator with arabic interface
Affiliation : SOTETEL-IT, Tunisian society of enterprises of telecommunication,
and information technologies
Preparation for Engineering studies, Engineering Preparatory Institute of Sousse,
Tunisia
Baccalaureate section Mathematics, Tunisia
TRAINING COURSES
2006
2005
2004
ICCL Summer School 2006 Knowledge Structures. Technische Universität,
Dresden, Germany. Juin 24 - July 8 2006.
textscMain courses : Reasoning in Description Logics (Franz Baader), Knowledge, Reasoning, and the Semantic Web (Pascal Hitzler), Formal Concept Analysis (Bernhard
Ganter), Text clustering and Semantic Web mining (Andreas Hotho), Inductive Logic
Programming (Stefan Kramer), Knowledge Discovery with Formal Concept Analysis
(Sergei Kuznetsov), Survey of clustering algorithms : applications to biomedicine and
software engineering (Bill Andreopoulos)
INRIA training courses : Scientific Writing, INRIA-LORIA, Nancy, FRANCE, October 2005
INRIA engineer contract : Design and development of a prototype for genomic
data sources classification and retrieval, ORPAILLEUR Team, LORIA-INRIA, Nancy,
France, July - September 2004
ACADEMIC AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Research Areas
Semantic based information retrieval
Semantic based complex data analysis
Formal concept analysis, Fuzzy formal concept analysis, and Many-valued formal
concept analysis
Complex data mining
Knowledge representation and knowledge extraction
Bioinfomatics
Publications summary
International conferences : 5 papers (ECAI’08, ICCS’08, CLA’06, ICCS’05,
CompLife’05), 1 poster (ICFCA’06)
International workshops : 2 papers (RED’08, W3C’04)
French journals : 3 papers (RNTI’08, RTSI/ISI’06, RNTI’05)
French conferences : 2 papers (AFIA-IC’07, INFORSID’05)
French workshops : 1 paper (EGC’O5 - MC)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Year
07-09
Period
Course Label
Level
Oct-Jan
Relational Databases
Master 2
Oct-Dec
Office automation
tools
Bachelor 1
Oct-Nov
XML
Master 2
Feb-Apr
06-07
Oct-Jan
Feb-May
05-06
Oct-Jan
Mar-Jun
04-05
March
Mar-May
03-04
Feb-May
Algo - JAVA
Programming
Office automation
tools
Office automation
tools
Office automation
tools
Algo - JAVA
Programming
XML
Servlet-JSP
JDBC
Office automation
tools
Bachelor 1
Bachelor 1
Bachelor 2
Bachelor 1
Bachelor 2
Bachelor 3
Master 2
Bachelor 2
Bachelor 1
High Institute
University
STMIA
UHP-Nancy1
Volume in hours
Lecture Tutorial Labs
45
STMIA
UHP-Nancy1
32
40
ESIAL
UHP-Nancy1
IUT NB
UHP-Nancy1
PLG
Univ. Nancy2
CLSH
Univ. Nancy2
UFR Droit
Univ. Nancy2
ENSEM
INPL
35
24
28
48
36
36
45
9
12
4
38
58
SKILLS
General computer knowledge
Programming languages (Java, Servlet/JSP, PHP, C, C++)
Software design and Object oriented programming (UML, Design Pattern)
Information systems design and relational databases (MySQL, Oracle, SQL/PLSQL)
OS : MS Windows, Unix/Linux
Web technologies
Programming : HTML, Servlet/JSP, PHP
XML : XML, XSLT/XSLFO, XML-SCHEMA, DTD, SAX/DOM, JDOM, Oxygène
Semantic Web : RDF/RDFS, OWL, JENA, Protégé
Web Services : SOAP, WSDL, UDDI
Logics
First order and second order logic, Description logics, and Fuzzy logic
Languages
Arabic : native language
French : fluent
English : fluent (Threshold level in Wall Streat Institute - Nancy (Feb-Dec 2006))
Others
Hobbies : Sports (football, cycling, running), travelling
Driving : Driving licence B.
PUBLICATIONS
2008
Devignes MD, Franiatte P, Messai N, Napoli A, Smaı̈l-Tabbone M : BioRegistry :
Automatic Extraction of Metadata for Biological Database Retrieval and Discovery. 1st
International Workshop on REsource Discovery RED 2008, ACM, 24-26 November
2008, Linz, Austria.
Messai N, Devignes MD, Napoli A, Smaı̈l-Tabbone M : Many-valued concept lattices
for conceptual clustering and information retrieval. 18th biennial European Conference
on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2008. IOS Press, pages 127-131. 21-25 July, Patras,
Greece.
Messai N, Devignes MD, Napoli A, Smaı̈l-Tabbone M : Extending attribute dependencies for lattice-based querying and navigation. 16th International Conference on
Conceptual Structures ICCS’08 - Conceptual Structures : Knowledge Visualization
and Reasoning. LNAI, volume 5113, pages 189-202. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg,
2005. 7-11 July, Toulouse, France
Messai N, Devignes MD, Napoli A, Smaı̈l-Tabbone M : Correction et complétude d’un
algorithme de recherche d’information par treillis de concepts. Revue RNTI-C-2.
Classification : points de vue croisés, pages 147-158. Avril 2008, Cépaudeuès éditions.
2007
Messai N, Devignes MD, Napoli A, Smaı̈l-Tabbone M : Traitement d’attributs interdépendants pour la recherche d’information par treillis. 18e Journées Francophones
d’Ingénierie des Connaissances, IC 2007 (Plate-forme AFIA 2007). 02-06 Juillet 2007,
Grenoble, France.
2006
Messai N, Devignes MD, Napoli A, Smaı̈l-Tabbone M : BR-Explorer : An FCA-based
algorithm for Information Retrieval. 4th International Conference on Concept Lattices
and their Applications, CLA 2006, proceedings, pages 285-290. October 30 - November 1st, 2006, Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia.
Messai N, Devignes MD, Napoli A, Smaı̈l-Tabbone M : BR-Explorer : A sound
and complete FCA-based retrieval algorithm. 4th International Conference on Formal
Concept Analysis, ICFCA 2006. February 13-17, 2005, Dresden, Germany. Poster
session.
Messai N, Devignes MD, Napoli A, Smaı̈l-Tabbone M : Treillis de concepts et ontologies pour l’interrogation d’un annuaire de sources de données biologiques (BioRegistry)
(version étendue). Revue RSTI/ISI : Systèmes d’information spécialisés, volume 11,
n 1, janvier - février 2006, pages 39-60.
2005
Smaı̈l-Tabbone M, Osman S, Messai N, Napoli A, Devignes MD : BioRegistry : A
Structured Metadata Repository for Bioinformatic Databases. In Michael R. Berthold,
Robert Glen, Kay Diederichs, Oliver Kohlbacher, Ingrid Fischer, editor, Computational
Life Sciences : First International Symposium, CompLife 2005, Konstanz, Germany,
September 25-27, 2005, Proceedings. LNAI, volume 3695, pages 46-56. Springer-Verlag
Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
Messai N, Devignes MD, Napoli A, Smaı̈l-Tabbone M : Méthode sémantique pour la
classification et l’interrogation des sources de données génomiques. Revue RNTI :
Extraction des connaissances, État et perspectives. Cépadues Editions, Novembre 2005,
pages 43-47.
Messai N, Devignes MD, Napoli A, Smaı̈l-Tabbone M : Querying a bioinformatic data
sources registry with concept lattices. In F. Dau, M.-L. Mugnier, G. Stumme, editor,
13th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2005, Conceptual
Structures : Common Semantics for Sharing Knowledge, July 18-22, 2005, Kassel,
Germany, Proceedings. LNAI, volume 3596, pages 323-336. Springer-Verlag Berlin
Heidelberg, 2005.
Messai N, Devignes MD, Napoli A, Smaı̈l-Tabbone M : Treillis de concepts et ontologies
pour l’interrogation d’un annuaire de sources de données biologiques (BioRegistry).
Actes du 18 ème congrès informatique des organisations et systèmes d’information et
de décision, INFORSID 2005, Grenoble 24-27 Mai 2005, pages 587-602.
2004
Devignes MD, Messai N, Napoli A, Osman S, Smaı̈l-Tabbone M : Intelligent access
to genomic sources on the web. W3C Workshop on Semantic Web for Life Sciences.
October 27-28, 2004, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA. (Position paper)
Messai N. : Treillis de Galois et ontologies de domaine pour la classification et la
recherche de sources de données génomiques. Rapport de DEA, Juin 2004, UHP Nancy I.
SCIENTIFIC REFEREES
Amedeo Napoli (Supervisor)
Phone : (+33)3.83.59.20.68
Email : [email protected]
Homepage : http://www.loria.fr/~napoli
Marie-Dominique Devignes
Phone : (+33)3.83.59.20.55
Email : [email protected]
Homepage : http://www.loria.fr/~devignes
Malika Smaı̈l-Tabbone
Phone : (+33)3.83.59.20.55
Email : [email protected]
Homepage : http://www.loria.fr/~malika