Keynote Speakers
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Brigham Young University, USA
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Zayed University, Dubai, UAE
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LIP6, Paris, France |
Michael McLaughlinBrigham Young University, Idaho, USATitle of Speech:Skills & Staffing for the Evolving EnterpriseAbstract: The concept of modularity has driven and continues to drive many changes in the IT industry. We have evolved and continue to evolve highly specialized skill sets to manage the modularity of our evolving world. While that has worked and may yet work for some time, skilled labor is at a premium and its costs grow ever more expensive. At some point we must change our approach to how we manage IT because it’s ever less likely we can automate the evolving solution space. In this keynote we will discuss how skill sets must evolve to manage the modern IT enterprise. Biography:Michael McLaughlin is a professor in the Computer Information Technology Department of the College of Business & Communication at Brigham Young University – Idaho. He is also the author of ten books on Oracle and MySQL database technology. Michael is a frequent presenter at Oracle and MySQL conferences, and he consults in database administration and enterprise software development projects. |
Zakaria MaamarZayed University, Dubai, UAETitle of Speech:Business and Social Artifacts for Successful Enterprises in Web 2.0 EraAbstract: The continuous progress of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is helping enterprises put in place better e-business applications in terms of availability, reliability, efficiency, etc. Among these ICTs the Web now is a robust platform upon which cross-border business processes are rolled out. A presence on the Web and well-defined business processes have become a must for enterprises. The embracement of Web 2.0 (aka social) applications by enterprises has triggered the need of revisiting the way these enterprises do business. In this context business artifact and social artifacts offer the necessary means for capturing the intrinsic characteristics of the business world (associated with business process management platforms) and social world (associated with Web 2.0 applications) and also, for bridging the gap between these two worlds. While the research community has looked extensively into business artifacts, there is a limited knowledge about social artifacts. In this talk we define social artifact, compare business artifact to social artifact, discuss the interactions that arise between business and social artifacts, and last but not least present an architecture for supporting these interactions. Keywords: Business artifact, Social artifact, Social machine, Web 2.0 application. Biography:Zakaria Maamar is a full professor in the College of Information Technology at Zayed University in Dubai. Prior to joining ZU in 2000, he held a Defense Scientist position with Defense R&D Canada - Valcartier. His teaching interests are primarily related to enterprise systems, software engineering, and programming. His research interests are primarily related to service sciences theories and methods, context-aware computing, and enterprise systems interoperability. Dr. Maamar has published several peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences, is the founder of the International Annual Symposium on Web Services (www.zu.ac.ae/wss), and regularly serves on the program and organizing committees of several international conferences and workshops. In 2010, he received an IBM Faculty Award to carry out research on social Web services. His research projects are regularly funded by the ZU Research Incentive Funds program. Dr. Maamar graduated for his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from Laval University in Canada in 1995 and 1998, respectively. |
Patrick BRÉZILLONLIP6, Paris, FranceTitle of Speech:Towards contextualized proceduresAbstract: The differences between a procedure and a practice is well known, but generally not analyzed or not understood. Our claim is that a practice is the result of a contextualization process of a procedure that takes into account the actor, the task realized by the actor, the situation in which the task is realized and the environment where available resources for the task are. We propose a conceptual framework and the implementation in a software called Contextual Graphs. A contextual graph is a representation of all the practices developed by actors on a task realization. The representation is structured by contextual elements and enriched incrementally, thanks to this uniform representation of elements of knowledge, reasoning and contexts. Some examples will be presented from real-world applications (subway, medicine, road safety, battlefield simulation, enterprise platform configuration). Biography:Prof. Patrick BRÉZILLON is working at the University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC) since his Thèse d'Etat (6-year duration) in 1983. His research on context modeling and management is acknowledged internationally and the object of an original course of the Innovation Management Master at the University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC). The Contextual-Graphs formalism is widely used in numerous domains concerned by the modeling of decison-makers’ reasoning in context. Prof. P. Brézillon published about 400 papers alone or with a grand total of 125 co-authors in international conferences and journals (e.g., IEEE Expert, AI Magazine, The Knowledge Engineering Review, International Journal on Operational Research, the International Journal on Human-Computer Studies, etc.). |