Pr. Djemel Ziou (Université de Sherbrooke – Canada)

Pr. Mokhtar Ammami (RMC-Canada)

Pr. Djemel Ziou (Université de Sherbrooke – Canada)
Djemel Ziou received the B.Eng Degree in Computer engineering from the University of Annaba (Algeria) in 1984, and PhD degree in Computer Science from the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL), France in 1991. From 1987 to 1993 he served as lecturer in several universities in France. Presently, he is full Professor at the department of computer science at the Université de Sherbrooke in Québec, Canada. He is also adjunct professor at Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering. He was invited professor at INRIA Loraine, l’Université de Nancy II, and l’Université de Paris 13. Dr. Ziou is the holder of the NSERC/Bell Canada research chair in personal imaging and several other prices and distinctions such as the selected “Professor of the Year" by M.Sc students in 1997. He served on numerous conference committees as member or chair. He is the founder of the research centre MOIVRE and the consortium CoRIMedia and the co-author of the first Canadian B.Sc in computer imaging. He published more than 200 papers in image processing, information retrieval, computer vision, and pattern recognition.

Content Based Recommendation of Visual Documents

Recommender systems are software intermediaries that act on behalf users to find out only relevant data according to their long-term needs. For instance, Amazon.com offers a recommendation service to its customers to help them in discovering products that may interest them. Recently, Content-Based Image Suggestion (CBIS) has been proposed to improve recommendations using the visual content such as color, shape and texture as an added-value. While CBIR offers a reactive interaction scenario by returning visual documents that are “similar” to the query provided by the user, CBIS offers a proactive scenario since it generates responses based on the user’s long-term needs. Therefore, user is no longer required to formulate a query to receive visual documents, which means also that CBIS is well suited form mobile users using handheld devices. The goal of our talk is address the scientific problems behind the CBIS and to show how they can be tackled. Among these problems, there are the collect of data, data modeling, data updating, feature selection, and recommendation strategies.

Pr. Mokhtar Ammami (RMC-Canada)
Dr Mokhtar Amami is a Professor of Strategic Management of Technology, Management Information Systems (MIS) and eSupply Chain Management at the School of Business Administration (RMC, Kingston, Ontario, Canada). Dr Amami holds a MSc from Tunis University, a degree of Principal Engineer from ENSAE (Paris) and Doctorat D’État ès Sciences Économiques (Université of Paris I, Sorbonne). He received a Post.Doc. Scholarships from Social Sciences and Humanities Research council of Canada. He was a Visiting Fellow in MIS at the Sloan School of Management (MIT, Boston, USA). He was professor of Management at University of Quebec (Canada) and visiting Professor of MIS at University of Dauphine (Paris), at University of Nantes (Nantes, France) and at École Supérieure des Affaires (University Pierre Mendes France, Grenoble, France). He is the founder and was the chair of Congrès International PME et Entrepreneuriat (1993). He is a founding member of Association Tunisienne des Sciences de Gestion, and Revue Systèmes Information Management. He is actually member of the Board of Revue Systèmes d’Information et Management, and Revue Internationale PME. He was member of the Board of Logistics Information Management Review and Revue des Sciences de Gestion. He was also a Reviewer for National Science Foundation on Decision Risk and Management Science (Washington, D.C. 1987-1990) and Hong Kong University Grants Committee (1997-2007). He was the chair of AIM Conference (2002) and program chair of CIMRE Conference (Montreal, 1998) and the Mediterranean Conference of Information Systems (2008). He published 4 books in Microeconomics, information economics and many articles in variety of Journals such as Project management, International Journal of Management, Management Sciences and regional Development, Revue Systèmes Information Management, Annales Telecommunications etc. Dr Amami has two forthcoming books in “Supply Chain Management and eBusiness Expansion” and “Strategic Management of Technology”. His actual research interests cover eSupply Chain Management, Technology Based Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management of Technology, Technology Based Creative Clustering, and eLearning.