Curriculum Vitae
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Mokhtar SELLAMI
Senior research scientist
State Doctorate (Doctorat d'Etat)
Ph.D in Computer Science

Departement Informatique
University of Annaba, Algeria
BP 12, 23000 DZ

Mobile Phone:  213 61321307
Office: 213 38 87 29 91

Email: Sellami@lri-annaba.net
http://www.lri-annaba.net

Current situation

 		 Full Professor, Supervisor
Director of the Research Laboratory in Computer Science
In Charge of Scientific Research/Development Projects


 

1) General Informations

Surname SELLAMI
Name: Mokhtar
Date and place of birth  : 15.02.1951  M’Sila
Nationality Algerian
Marital Status : Maried, 3 children
Professional  Address : University Badji Mokhtar, Faculty of Science Engineering
LRI- Departement of Computer Science, B.P. 12,  23000, Annaba  Algeria

Current situation

 		 Full Professor, Supervisor
Director of the Research Laboratory in Computer Science
In Charge of Scientific Research/Development Projects

Spoken languages

 		 French: fluent
Arabic:  fluent
English: good spoken and written
Skills, Areas of competence Information and Communication Technologies, Knowledge Management, Knowledge engineering, ontologies, e-learning, Pattern Recognition
Hobbies Diving, walking, Music, web technologies

2) Education:

  • 1989:  State Doctorate in Informatics, prepared at the University of Grenoble (France), in the Center of Research in Computing, "A Matalanguage for the Generation of inference engine in the Expert Systems" .

  • 1979:  Doctorate of Third cycle in computer Science in the  UER of Informatics and Applied Mathematics under the supervision of Pr J. Rouault "Dynamic Performances of computer systems » Université de Grenoble -   (75-79)

  • 1975:  DEA - Informatics and Applied mathematics - University  of Grenoble -  France-  (1974-75)

  • 1974:   IMAG Certificates  (Informatics and Mathematics)

  • 1973:  Master of management - University  of  Constantine – Algeria

  • 1969:  Technical baccalaureate, Secondary school Mohamed Kerouani Setif - Algeria

 

3) Teaching experience

  • Knowledge Engeneering and Knowledge Management (N_Expert, Jess, Protege2000, CLIPS)

  • Formal Semantics

  • Expert Systems and Ontology

  • Logic and Functionnal Programming (Prolog, Scheme, Lisp)

  • Web-building technologies, including W3C standards (HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML) and other technologies (JavaScript, PHP, ASP, Mysql ...)

  • Artificiel Intelligence and Expert Systems

 

4) Research Experience

  • Chairman of the national committee " ICT and software development"  in the Ministry delegated to scientific research in Algeria

  • President of the scientific committee in computer science

  • Member  of the Scientific Committee of the Algerian Spacial Agency (Decision of the Head of the Government  Number 047,  24th may 2003)

  • Member  of the Scientific Committee of the Advanced Development Technology Center ( ministry decree  Number  23,  28th january  2001 )

  • Permanant Member of the  International African Conference  on Information and Communication Technology

  • Expert for the evaluation of National Research Project in the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Algeria (PNR).

  • Maghrebian Coordinator  of the SARIMA Network (Support for the Activities of Research in Informatics and Mathematics in Africa) , financed by the french foreign office Ministry.

  • Manager of the Algerian Sakai E-learning project, financed by the International Development Research Centre

  • Others :

  • 1985-1989 : Member and representative of the Algerian University in the  European Academic Research Network (EARN).

  • 1993-1998 : Supervisor of the  project « management in Algéria », financed by the   CIDA  (Canadian International Development Agency).

 

5) ADMINISTRATION (Management) Experience

  • Director of the Research Laboratory in Computer Science at Annaba University

  • Supervisor of the Post-Graduate studies "ICT and  Document"

  • Manager of Research/Development projects in Information systems and Network (MIND,  Sonatrach, Ports)

Antecedent Responsabilities:

  •  Manager of the Computing Center (1982-1984)

  • Director of the Institut of Mathematics and Computer Science(1983-1984)

  • Vice-president of the university in charge of Postgraduate studies and research (1989-1992)

  •  Rector of the University ad interim (ministry decree  Number 587, 19th april 1992)

  • President of the Scientific council  of the Institut (1994-1997)

Management of Academic Research projects (1978 - 2003):

  • Research and Development project on Information and Communication Technology Applied to the knowledge management, applied to the hydrocarbones industries (under process)

  • Research Project on the process control and maintenance of industrial installation in the domain of energy  ANDRU Project (2000-2005), Accomplished with good results

  • Multiexpert system applied to the arabic speech recognition. Projet B2301/09/99 -   (Janvier 2000 - Janvier 2002). Realised with the mention : good results.

  • Distributed Problem Solving and & Cooperation - Projet B2301/10/97. (Janvier 95 - Janvier 99). Realised with the mention : good results.

  • Environnement of problem solving - Projet B2301/02/01/93 (Janv93/95). Realised with the mention : good results.

  • Environnement of advanced technology for symbolic information management Project: B2301/01/01/91 (Janv 91/93) - realised with the mention : good results.

 

6) LATEST International Publications

  • M. Sellami, H. Zarzour, T. Khadir : “A Grid Collaborative Environment for SARIMA and other North-African projects", IST-Africa 2007 Conference Proceedings, Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds), IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2007, ISBN: 1-905824-04-1

  • F. Laallam,  M. Sellami : “Gas Turbine Ontology for the Industrial Processes", Journal of Computer Science, Volume 3, Num 2,  pp 111-118, January 2007. Science Publications New York, USA. ISSN 1549-3636.

  • L. Souici, M. Sellami : « A hybrid neuro-symbolic approach for arabic handwritten word recognition" JACIII,  Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol. 10, N°1,  Tokyo, January 2006

  • H. Seridi, M. Sellami: "Adaptive Instructional Planning using neural networks in Intelligent Learning Systems", The international Arab Journal of Information Technology, IAJIT, volume 3, issue 3, Juillet 2006. ISSN : 1683-3198.

  • L. Souici, M. Sellami :“Toward a generalization of neuro-symbolic recognition” , International Journal of Knowledge-based and Intelligent Engineering Systems Vol 10, N05, pp.347-361 2006

  • T. Sari, M. Sellami : « Arabic character segmentation and recognition system », International Journal of Computers and Applications, Volume 27, Num 3, July 2005, Publisher Actapress, Calgary, Canada

  • Seridi .H, Sari.T, Sellami.M, “ A Neural Network for Adaptive Lesson generation” . Journal of Computer Science. Volume 1, Numéro 2, Avril 2005. Science Publications New York, USA. ISSN 1549-3636.

  • L. Souici, M. Sellami : “Perceptual Recognition of Arabic Literal Amounts", Computing and Informatics Journal, Vol 25, pp 43-59, 2006

  • T. Farah, L. Souici,, M. Sellami : « Classifiers combination and syntax analysis for arabic literal amount recognition», Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Volume 19, Issue 1, February 2006

  • H. Bahi, M. Sellami, « Integration of rule-based systems and neural networks into speech recognition system »  WSEAS Transaction On systems, Issue 2, Volume 3, April. 2004. ISSN: 1109-2777.

  • H. Bahi, M. Sellami,  “Connexionnist expert system for Arabic speech recognition”, The International Arab Journal of Information Technology, Vol. 2, No. 2, April 2005, pp:149-154.

  • Farah N., Souici L., Sellami M., "Arabic Word Recognition by Classifiers and Context", JCST, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp: 402-410, May 2005

  • Souici L, Sellami M., " A hybrid approach for Arabic literal amounts recognition ", AJSE, the Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Volume 29, Number 2B, pp: 177-194, October 2004.

  • Souici L., Farah N., Sari T., Sellami M., " Rule based neural networks construction for handwritten arabic city-names recognition", Proceedings of the 11th International conference Artificial Intelligence: AIMSA 2004, Varna, Bulgaria, September 2004, , LNAI 3192, pp: 331-340, Springer, ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Farah N., Souici L., Sellami M., " Arabic words recognition with classifiers combination: An application to literal amounts", Methodology, Systems, Architectures, AIMSA 2004, Varna, Bulgarie, 02-04 September, LNAI 3192, pp: 420-429, Springer, ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Seridi.H., Sellami.M., (2002), “An adaptive Distance Learning Architecture” 6th International Conference, ITS 2002. Biarritz, France and San Sebastian, spain, June 2002. LNCS 2363, Springer Verlag Edition

  • Seridi.H, Sari.T, Sellami.M, (2004), “ Adaptive Lesson generation” , IFIP WCC’2004 Toulouse 2004. 18th IFIP World Computer Congress. Technology Enhanced Learning -Book published at Springer Verlag. eBook 0-387-24047-0. ISBN (HB) 0-387-24047

  • Lazli  L, M. Sellami, “Hybrid HMM-MLP system based on fuzzy logic for arabic speech recognition”,  International Conference on Machine Learning and Data-Mining, MLDM 2005, LNCS, Springer Verlag Edition, July 2005
     

Papers in Refereed conferences

  • Laallam F.Z. , Sellami M., "Operationalisation of industrial gas turbine ontology" The International Arab Conference on Information Technology Arab Academy for Science & Tech. and Maritime Trans., Lattakia,  November 26-28, 2007

  • A. Benouareth, A. Ennaji, M. Sellami, "HMMs with Explicit State Duration Applied to Handwritten Arabic Word Recognition", ICPR 2006. 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Volume 3, 20-24 Aug. 2006. Page(s): 897 – 900.

  • Boumaza K., Sellami M., “Using neural networks to discriminate between Arabic and Latin writings ”, JETALA'06, Rabat, Maroc, Juin 2006

  • Benouareth A, A. Ennaji, Sellami M., "Semi-Continuous HMMs with Explicit State Duration Applied to Arabic Handwritten Word Recognition", IWFHR 2006.

  • Hassina Seridi, Toufik Sari, Tarek Khadir, Mokhtar Sellami. ‘Adaptive Instructional Planning in Intelligent Learning Systems’. Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies Pages: 133 – 135. ISBN:0-7695-2632-2. IEEE Computer Society Washington, DC, US

  • M. Sellami, A. Saadi « e-Mind : A dynamic system for integrating and consulting pieces of knowledge in hydrocarbon maintenance process», IEEE proceedings, SETIT05, Tunis

  • Farah N., Khadir T., Sellami M., ‘Artificial neural network fusion: Application to Arabic words recognition’, European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks  ESANN 2005, Bruges, Belgium

  • Seridi .H, Sari.T, Sellami.M, (2004), “ A Connectionist Approach for Adaptive Lesson generation”, Conférence TICE 2004, Compiègne, France. Octobre 2004

  • H. Bahi, M. Sellami, Integration of rule-based systems and neural networks into speech recognition system, WSEAS Trans. On systems, Issue 2, Volume 3, pp :778-783, Avr. 2004.

  • Seridi .H, Sari.T, Sellami.M, (2003), “ Dynamic Generation of Adaptive Pedagogical Documents”, The fourth IEEE International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education d Training, ITHET(2003), Marrakech, Morocco, July 2003

  • L. Lazli, m. Sellami. "Hybrid HMM-MLP system based on fuzzy logic for arabic speech recognition". PRIS2003, The third international workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems, April 22-23, Angers, France, 2003.

  • Souici L, Sellami M., (2001), "A neuro-symbolic approach for Arabic literal amounts recognition", ICCTA’2001, 11th International Conference on Computer Theory and Applications, Alexandria, Egypt, August 2001

  • Souici L, Sellami M., (2001), "Toward an Arabic check amounts recognition system", AICCSA Workshop on Software for the Arabic Language", ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon, June 2001

  • Seridi.H., Sellami.M., (2001), “Design of an Intelligent Tutoring System On The WWW to Support Interactive Learning” International Conference on Engineering Education. (ICEE 2001) August 6 – 10, 2001 Oslo, Norvège.

  • Seridi.H., Sellami.M., (2001), “A methodology for designing an intelligent tutoring system on the WWW supporting interactive learning”, Fifth International Conference on Computer Base Learning in Science CBLIS’2001 7th July–12th July 2001 at the Masaryk University, Faculty of Education, Brno, Czech Republic. Editor Graham M Chapman, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.. ISBN 80-7042-180-0.

  • Bahi H., Sellami M., Combination of vector quantization and hidden Markov models for Arabic speech recognition, Proceedings ACS/IEEE International conference on computer systems and applications, Beirut, Lebanon, June 2001, pp:96-100.

  • Bahi H., Sellami M., An acoustical based approach for arabic syllables recognition, workshop on software for the arabic language, AICCSA’2001, , Beirut, Lebanon, June 2001.

  • Seridi.H., Sellami.M., (2001), "A methodology for designing an intelligent tutoring system on the WWW supporting interactive learning", World Conference of the WWW, WebNet’2000. AACE USA.

  • L. Lazli, m. Sellami. "A new method for unsupervised classification: Application for the speech clustering". SETIT2003, Conférence internationale : Sciences Electroniques, Technologies de l’Information et des Télécommunications, 17-21 Mars , Sousse, Tunisie, 2003

  • H. Bahi, M.Sellami, Hybrid approach for Arabic speech recognition, proceedings  ACS/IEEE de la conference AICCSA’03-Tunis,Tunisie, Juil. 2003.

  • Sari T., Souici L., Sellami M., (2002), " Off-line Handwritten Arabic Character Segmentation and Recognition System: ACSA-RECAM ", IWFHR’2002, 8th International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, pp: 452-457, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, August 2002
     

 

7) PHD Supervision:

  • FARAH Nadir « Contribution à l'étude des systèmes multiclassifieurs: application à la reconnaissance de mots arabes manuscrits", Thèse de Doctorat d'Etat, soutenue publiquement le 22 décembre 2005: Jury Présidente: Mokhtari-Aiissani Aicha Pr, Rapporteur: M. Sellami Pr, Examinateurs: Batouche M., Abdel ENNAJI (PSI Rouen), Bedda P., Université Annaba

  • BAHI Halima « Un système neuro-symbolique pour la reconnaissance de la parole", Thèse de Doctorat d'Etat, soutenue publiquement le 19 décembre 2005: Jury Présidente: Batouche Mohamed Pr, Rapporteur: M. Sellami Pr, Examinateurs: Zemirli Z, MC,  K. Smaili (Loria), Doghmane N, Pr ., Université Annaba

  • AMIAR Lotfi: « Un système hybride AG/PMC pour la reconnaissance de la parole arabe" le 17.11.2005, Moyenne 14.63,  Jury : Khadir Tarek HDR, Zemirli Zouhir MC,  Kholladi Mohamed,  Rapporteur : Sellami Mokhtar, Pr, Université Annaba

  • ALLALGA Wahid: « Vers une automatisation de la construction d'ontologies" le 25.07.2005, Moyenne 13.53,  Jury : Batouche Mohamed Pr, Bensebaa Tahar MC,  Merouani Hayet MC, Rapporteur : Sellami Mokhtar, Pr, Université Annaba

  • HADJERIA Mourad: « Interconnexion de services pour le web sémantique: une application à la maintenance industrielle" le 18.07.2005, Moyenne 13.63,  Jury : Batouche Mohamed Pr, Bensebaa Tahar MC,  Merouani Hayet MC, Rapporteur : Sellami Mokhtar, Pr, Université Annaba

  • ANGUEL Fouzia : « Vers un système de gestion de connaissances pour l’aide au diagnostic de pannes dans un système industriel »  le 18.02.2004, Moyenne 14.63,  Jury : Babès Malika MC, Batouche Mohamed Pr, Boufaida Zizette Pr, Merouani Hayet MC, Rapporteur : Sellami Mokhtar, MC, Université Annaba

  • TALEB Nora : « Approche d’acquisition de connaissances pour la construction d’un modèle dédié à un Système à base de connaissances»  le 14.10.2003, Moyenne 13.48, Jury : Babès Malika MC, Bensbaa Tahar CC,  Merouani Hayet MC, Rapporteur : Sellami Mokhtar, MC, Université Annaba

  • LAZLI Lilia : « Système de reconnaissance neuro-markovienne pour la parole arabe isolée basée sur une segmentation floue »  le  30.06. 2003, Moyenne 13.48, Jury : Laskri Mohamed Tayeb, Drias Habiba Pr, Baatouche Mohamed, Henni Abderrezak, Rapporteur : Sellami Mokhtar, MC, Université Annaba

  • AZZIZI Nabiha « Contribution de classifieurs neuronaux basée sur la logique floue : application à la reconnaissance de mots arabes manuscrits » le 09.01.2003, Mention très honorable, Jury : Boufaida M., Henni A., Laskri M. Tayeb, Djeddi N., Rapporteur : Sellami Mokhtar, MC,  Annaba –

  • KERMI Sofia: « Classifieur neuronal basé connaissances: Application à la reconnaissance des caractères arabes manuscrits ».  le 11.03.2000, Mention très honorable, Jury : Djeddi Noureddine, Baatouche Mohamed, Doghmane Noureddine, Rapporteur : Sellami Mokhtar, MC, / Université de Annaba

  • SARI Toufik « Système de reconnaissance de mots arabes manuscrits basé segmentation » le 11.03.2000, Mention très honorable, Jury : Djeddi Noureddine, Baatouche Mohamed, Doghmane Noureddine, Rapporteur : Sellami Mokhtar, MC, Institut d'Informatique / Université de Annaba – 0

  • BENOUARETH Abdallah, « Reconnaissance de l'écriture arabe manuscrite par une approche hybride ». le 14.02.2000, Mention très honorable, Jury : Sahnoun Zaidi, Batouche Mohamed, Bensbaa Tahar, Ahmed-Nacer Mohamed, Rapporteur : Sellami Mokhtar, MC / Université de Annaba –

  • AMICHE AHCENE: Diagnostic des pannes dans le procédé de fabrication du polyéthylène (compression secondaire) - Mémoire de Post Graduation  - Institut d'Informatique / Université de Annaba - Mai 1996

  • ZOUHIR BELAID: Conception et réalisation d'un système à base de connaissances d'aide au diagnostic de pannes pour un moteur diesel  - Mémoire de Post Graduation  - Institut d'Informatique / Université de Annaba - Mai 1996

  • BESSAM Mohamed : « Coopération et integration d'outils de développement dans les systèmes experts»  le  06.11.1996, Mention très honorable, Jury : Araar Abdellaziz, Laskri Mohamed Tayeb, Djeddi Noureddine, Kholladi Med Kheireddine, Rapporteur : Sellami Mokhtar, MC, Université de Annaba –

  • BAHI Halima: « Coopération des théories dans un environnement de résolution de problèmes logiques » le 21.10.1996, Mention très honorable, Jury : Ghanemi Salim, Laskri Mohamed Tayeb, Babès Malika, Badri Mourad, Rapporteur : Sellami Mokhtar, MC, / Université de Annaba –

  • SOUICI Labiba: « Système connexionniste pour la reconnaissance des caractères arabes manuscrits » le 22.06.1996, Mention très honorable, Jury : Ghanemi Salim, Laskri Mohamed Tayeb, Belamri Rachid,  Rapporteur : Sellami Mokhtar, MC, Université de Annaba

  • BAAZIZ Abdelhalim, « Prolog parallèle: implémentation à base du join et fork ». le 13.05.1993, Mention très honorable, Jury : Benyelles Choukri, Belmesk Zoubir, Ghanemi Salim, Maouche Mourad, Rapporteur : Sellami Mokhtar, MC,  Université de Annaba

  • BENZETTA Lahçene: « Constructeur d'un interpréteur Prolog avec gestion des coroutines », le 26.09.1992, Mention très honorable, Jury : Ghanemi Salim, Ghoul Said, Laskri Mohamed Tayeb, Rapporteur : Sellami Mokhtar, MC, Institut d'Informatique / Université de Annaba –

  • MENAI Mohamed Bachir « Vers un contrôle global de la déduction partielle » le 13.05.1993, Mention très honorable, Jury : Benyelles Choukri, Belmesk Mounira, Azzoune Hamid, Ghoul Said,  Maouche Mourad, Rapporteur : Sellami Mokhtar, MC, Université de Annaba

 

8) PROGRAMME COMMITTEES

  • CARI'2008: International African Conference on Reseach in Computer Science and Applied mathematics, Rabat, Morocco, October 2008, http://www.cari-info.org

  • ICISP2008, International Conference on Image and Signal Processing
    July 1-3, 2008, Cherbourg-Octeville, France, http://www.stlo.unicaen.fr/icisp2008/

  • MCSEAI’08 : Maghrebian Conference on Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Oran, May 4-7, 2008, Algeria

  • ICDAR’2007 :International Conference on  Document Analysis and Recognition,  Curitiba,  Brésil, September 2007 : http://www.icdar2007.org

  • ISPS’2007 : International Symposium on Programming and Systems, Alger 9-11 Mai 2007
    http://www.isps2007.dz

  • ITHET’2006 :International Conference on  Information Technology Based Higher Education & Training, Australia, http://ithet06.eng.uts.edu.au/

  • ACIT'2007: International Arab Conference on Information Technology, Lattakia, Syria
    http://www.acit2k.org/sub2007.html?ACIT2007

  •  ACIDCA-ICMI’05 :  International Conference on Machine Intelligence, Tozeur, Tunisie, Novembre 2005, http://acidca-icmi2005.org

  • ACIT 2005 : International Arab Conference on Information technology, December, 6-8, Jordan,  http:// www.acit2k.org

  • ICSIT’05 : International Conference on Systems and Information Technology,  conférence IEEE – Alger, Juillet 2005, http://www.icsit.org

  • ISPS’2005 : International Symposium on Programming and Systems, Alger 9-11 Mai 2005 http://www.isps2005.dz

  • CARI’2004 : Colloque Africain sur la Recherche en Informatique, , Hammamet, Tunisie,  Novembre 2004 - http://www.cari-info.org

  • ARIMA-CARI’04 : Comité de lecture du numéro spécial – CARI’04 de la Revue ARIMA http://www.irisa.fr/arima

  • CIFED 2004 :  Conférence  sur le Document et l’écrit, La Rochelle, France, Juin 2004

  • MCSEAI’04 : Huitième Conférence Maghrébine sur les Systèmes Informatiques, Mai 2004, Sfax, Tunisie

  • ITHET-2003 : Information Technology based Higher Education and Training, Marrakech, Morocco, July 2003

  • ICISP’2003 :  Agadir, Morocco, 2003

  • AICCSA 2003 : International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Tunis, Tunisie, Juillet 2003