Welcome to my Web page ! I am a Professor in Computer Science and Director of the
Naval Academy Research Institute (located in Brittany in North West France). I was previously head of the GIS research group at the Naval Academy Research Institute, Senior Lecturer in Computing at the
Nottingham Trent University, Associate Lecturer at the Open University in the UK, Senior Researcher at the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and consultant for GIS companies and international GIS programs in the field of high education. I hold a MSc in Databases from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Burgundy (France). I am a research associate at the
Centre for Planning Studies at the Laval University, a research fellow at the
Joint Laboratory for Geographical Information Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. My research work incorporates theoretical and applied domains of GIS. My research interests are as follows (see list of publications for details):
Recently I was one of the chairs of the 9th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (
COSIT'09)
held at the Aber Wrac'h in September 2009. Still in 2009, I was also one of the co-chairs of the 3rd International workshop on Information Fusion and Geographical Information Systems held in St Petersburg (
IF&GIS 2009). Over the past few years I have also been the co-chair of the 3rd International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Geographic Information Systems (COMOGIS'2006), 3rd International Workshop on Spatio-temporal Database Management (
STDBM'2006), ACM track on Advances in Spatial and Image-based Information Systems (ASIIS 06 and now
ASIIS 10), 2nd International Workshop on Semantic and Conceptual Issues in GIS (
SeCoGIS 2008). I serve in the steering committees of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (
COSIT), the international symposiums on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (
W2GIS) and the International Workshop on Semantic and Conceptual Issues in GIS (
SeCoGIS). I am regularly involved in the program committee of the
GIScience, Conference on Spatial Information Theory (
COSIT), Web and Wireless GIS (
W2GIS), Semantics and Conceptual GIS (
SeCoGIS), ACM
SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 2008 (
ACMGIS), Spatial Cognition, (
SC'10) Behaviour Modelling and Interpretation (
BMI), Web Information Systems and Technologies (
WEBIST), Internet and Multimedia Systems Applications (
IMSA), Databases and Experts Systems Applications (
DEXA),
AGILE international conferences on Geographical Information Systems and
ACM MEDES on the management of emergent digital ecosystems.
I am currently acting as the deputy leader of the working group on the representation of movement data and spatio-temporal DBs of the European Science Fundation COST action MOVE (
Knowledge Discovery form Moving Objects). From 2001 to 2007 I have been acting as the editor in chief of the
Revue Internationale de Géomatique and I am currently serving as co-director of the French national research network in GIS, so-called,
MAGIS for "Modelisation et Application des SIG".
My teaching activities include several computer science and computing courses. I have also developed several modules connected to my research activities in the domain of GIS, remote-sensing, sustainable development, simulation and multi-agent modelling. My main training activities are oriented to the engineering degree of the Naval Academy cadets, I have been more recently involved with the training program of the CLIMSAT Program of the United Nations Development Program.
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