CIPS - Loyalist Sept. 2008 LUNCHEON
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Our topic this month for our Trends and Changes in ICT Series. is “Adaptive Web”   <BR>

TOPIC:  “aWEB: A Framework for the Design, Creation and Deployment of Adaptive Websites”   

Speakers:
 Dr. Ali Ghorbani,  Dean of  UNB Faculty of Computer Science, Fredericton 

  Event Overview 

aWeb is a framework that enables web designers:

• Creation of websites in a purposely-designed environment allowing easy design, simulation, deployment & maintenance of the site.
• Application's business logic embedding through a high level scheme allowing direct application-domain expert input & maintenance.
• Adaptation rules (presentation, navigation paths, content) & adaptation triggers (session variables, user & external context profiles) specification & implementation.
• Distributed application deployment (application components residing on separate servers).
  

Potential Applications in Industry

aWeb’s suite of tools implements the whole process of adaptive websites creation & deployment.

Its applications range from web development platforms, to e-government, e-commerce, e-learning portals.

aWeb complements any web platform that provides large amounts of content requiring frequent updates & catering to a diversified audience (user profiles, contexts: access devices, network limitations) and delivers the exact amount of content in the adequate form to a specific user in the most efficient website structure.

aWeb-created websites deliver user-customized sites based on a single site description (enhanced productivity & maintenability).

Status of the Business Idea

Beta release, Patent pending.

Desired Cooperation with Industry in Connection with this Project

Licensing, develop the idea ready for market, preferably with a company in the following industry: Web-development, fee for service.

Contact information

Dr. Chaouki Regoui
Research Associate & Project Manager AIF
University of New Brunswick - Faculty of Computer Science
Gillin Hall, D115, 540 Windsor Street, Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3
Phone: 506-451-6966 Email: regoui@unb.ca
http://ias.cs.unb.ca

Presenters Bio:

1. Dr. Ali A. Ghorbani, Professor and Dean, Faculty of Computer Science, UNB, Fredericton.

Ali A. Ghorbani (BSc(Tehran), MSc(CS) (GWU), Ph.D. (UNB)) has held a variety of positions in academia for the past 28 years. Since 1991 he has been at the faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick (UNB), Fredericton, Canada, where he is most recently served as Professor and Assistant Dean (Research & Outreach). He holds UNB Research Scholar position, co-Editor-in-Chief of Computational Intelligence, an international journal, and Associate Editor of International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering. His current research focus is Web intelligence, Network Security, complex adaptive systems, trust & security, and Critical Infrastructure Protection. He authored more than 220 reports and research papers in journals and conference proceedings and has edited 8 volumes. He was Guest Editor for a number of Special Issues, General Chair and Program Chair/co-Chair for 6 International Conferences, and organized over 10 Workshops in conjunctions with International Conferences. He is the chair of PST2008, Canada’s privacy, security, and trust research conference, being held in Fredericton, October 1-3, 2008.

1. Dr. Chaouki Regoui, Research Associate & Project Manager AIF, Faculty of Computer Science, UNB, Fredericton.

Dr. Regoui is a research associate at the Intelligent & Adaptive Systems Research Group (http://ias.cs.unb.ca), Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick. Within this groups he is also project manager of the aWeb project.

He has been working for the last fourteen years on integration of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition techniques in real world business applications.

Chaouki was a research officer at the National Research Council IIT-eLearning (Moncton) & a researcher at a 3D modelling company in Quebec. He worked for 6 years in France in private sector & public research labs mainly on image/signal processing & pattern recognition.

He holds a PhD. in Computer Science (with the highest honours) from Paris-Rene Descartes University/Intelligent Perception Systems lab, for developping pattern recognition techniques used in modelling human’ odor assessment using an “electronic nose” (one of the first such research projects in this area), a DEA (Post-Masters degree) in Image Processing from the National Institute of Nuclear Sciences & Techniques – Saclay (France) & an Engineering degree in Automatics from University of Annaba (Algeria).

His main interests are in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Web search engines, Collaborative Filtering/Recommender Systems, Pattern Recognition/Data Mining, Image/Signal Processing, Sensory Data Analysis (human sensors’ response modelling) & Metadata Standards.

Date:    Wednesday, Sept. 24th , 2008
Time:   12:00 Noon - 1:00 PM
Location: The Union Club (125 Germain Street, Saint John)
 
Schedule of Events 

12:00:  Registration
12:10:  Luncheon
12:15: to 1:00   Presentation    (45 MINUTES)
BREAK  
1:00:   to 2:00   Demos & networking
2:00       Adjournment

Please register for this event by Noon on Tuesday, Sept 23rd , 2008. This allows us to notify the Union Club of the number of meals required by at least the business day before. You may register by paying online with the "ORDER NOW" button or at  http://www.cips.ca/loyalist or by email Loyalist@CIPS.CA  

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