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Philippe THIRAN

Associate Professor

Philippe Thiran is an associate professor in Web and Service Engineering at the Faculty of Computer Science of the University of Namur (Belgium). He is also the President of the PReCISE research centre.

Previously, Philippe Thiran studied Geography (University of Louvain - Belgium and University of Rennes - France), Computer Science (University of Namur), got his Ph.D. in Computer Science with a thesis on autonomous database interoperability. From 1997 to 2003, he was a member of the DB-MAIN research group of the Institute of Informatics of the University of Namur. In 2003, he was a guest professor at the University of Lyon, France. From 2003 to 2005, he was an assistant professor at the Mathematics & Computer Science Department of the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. During the same period, he was also a member of the LaQuSo Laboratory.

Research groups:

  • Member of the HERA research group (Technical University of Eindhoven, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Technische Universiteit Delft, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, FUNDP-University of Namur)
  • Member of the research group on Web Services Communities (Zayed University, Concordia University, University of Lyon, FUNDP-University of Namur)
  • President of the PReCISE research centre (FUNDP-University of Namur)
  • His main publications can be found at the DBLP server.

    Téléphone: 081/725301, 081/725301
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    Charges aux FUNDP

    Diplômes

    • BSc and MSc in Geography, UCL, 1995
    • MSc in Computer Science, FUNDP, 1997
    • PhD in Science (Computer Science), FUNDP, 2003
    • Certificate in Academic Practice (Teaching Skills Induction Programme), TU/Eindhoven, 2004

    Domaines de compétences

    • Web engineering
    • Adaptive Systems
    • Multi-agent systems
    • Service-oriented Computing

    Charges externes

    • Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology (IJWET), InderScience Publishers
    • Member of the IEEE Services Computing Community
    • Member of Nessi (EU)
    • Reviewers for journals: Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE), ACM Transactions on Service Computing, Journal of Service-oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA), Journal of Web Engineering, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Intelligent Systems, WWW Journal, Journal of Systems and Software
    • PC Member of ISWC 2011, ANT 1011, MobiWIS11, DEXA11, ANT11, INCoS10, BDA10, DEXA10, DEXA09, ISWC08, ICWE08, ICWE07, CE07, ICEIS06, WCRE06, SOCABE05, ICEIS05, CWS05, CWS06, EMOI04
    • Organizing Member of ER WISM 2011, ER WISM 2010, BDA 2009, CAiSE WISM 2009, DBDBD 2008, ER WISM08, InterDB05, ICDE InterDB06, VLDB InterDB07 and WRAP04
    • General chair of JFO 2009

    Cours (titulaire)

    Projets en cours

    Doctorats en cours

    Anciens projets

    Activités avec contribution

    Comité scientifique : Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology (IJWET), InderScience Publishers (, 2009)

    Publications (110)

    Livres

    2012
    Les ontologies à l'épreuve des usages
    Ladjel BELLATRECHE, Gilles KASSEL, Philippe THIRAN
    2009
    Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Web Information Systems Modeling: CAiSE Workshop
    Flavius FRASINCAR, Geert-Jan HOUBEN, Philippe THIRAN, Eric DUBOIS, Paul JOHANNESSON
    2008
    Journal on Data Semantics XI
    Stefano SPACCAPIETRA, J.Z PAN, Philippe THIRAN, T HALPIN, S STAAB, V SVATEK, P SHVAIKO, J.F RODDICK
    2008
    Advances in Conceptual Modeling - Challenges and Opportunities: ER 2008 Workshops
    SONG, PIATTINI, PHEOBE CHEN, HARTMANN, GRANDI, TRUJILLO, OPDHAL, FERRI, GRIFONI, CHIARA CASCHERA, ROLLAND, WOO, SALINESI, ZIMANYI, CLARAMUNT, FRASINCAR, HOUBEN, Philippe THIRAN
    2007
    2006
    2004

    Articles de périodique

    2012
    A goal based approach to engineering capacity driven web service, in Knowledge Engineering Journal
    Zakaria MAAMAR, S. TATA, K YETONGON, D BENSLIMANE, Philippe THIRAN
    2010
    2009
    2007
    2007
    Towards a Context-based Multi-Type Policy Approach for Web Services Composition, in Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE), volume 62, issue 2, pp. 327-351
    Zakaria MAAMAR, Djamal BENSLIMANE, Philippe THIRAN, Chirine GHEDIRA, Schahram DUSTDAR, Subramanian SATTANATHAN
    2007
    Ontology Development for The Semantic Web: An HTML Form-based Reverse Engineering Approach, in Journal of Web Engineering, volume 6, issue 2, pp. 143-164
    Sidi Mohamed BENSLIMANE, Djamal BENSLIMANE, Mimoun MALKI, Zakaria MAAMAR, Philippe THIRAN, Youssef AMGHAR, Mohand-Said HACID
    2005
    Report on the Workshop on Wrapper Techniques for Legacy Data Systems, in ACM SIGMOD Record, volume 34, issue 3, pp. 85-86
    Philippe THIRAN, Tore RISCH, Carmen COSTILLA, Jean HENRARD, Thomas KABISCH, Johan PETRINI, Willem-Jan VAN DEN HEUVEL, Jean-Luc HAINAUT
    2002
    Report on the EFIS 2001 Workshop, in The Computer Journal, volume 45, issue 2, pp. 249-251
    Stefan CONRAD, Willi HASSELBRING, Anne JAMES, Dalen KAMBUR, Ralf KUTSCHE, Philippe THIRAN

    Contributions à des ouvrages collectifs

    2009
    Context-based Semantic Mediation in Web Service Communities, in Weaving Services, Location, and People on the WWW, pp. 49-66
    Michael MRISSA, Stefan DIETZE, Philippe THIRAN, Chirine GHEDIRA, Djamal BENSLIMANE, Zakaria MAAMAR

    Actes de colloques

    2007
    CP4TWS - A Prototype Demonstrating Context and Policies for Transactional Web Services, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 4749
    Subramanian SATTANATHAN, Zakaria MAAMAR, N.C. NARENDRA, Djamal BENSLIMANE, Philippe THIRAN
    2007
    2006
    Contextual Ontologies: Motivations, Challenges, and Solutions, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 4243
    Djamal BENSLIMANE, Ahmed ARARA, Gilles FALQUET, Zakaria MAAMAR, Philippe THIRAN, Faiez GARGOURI
    2000
    CASE Support for the Development of Federated Information Systems, in Proceedings of EFIS'00, pp. 106-113
    Philippe THIRAN, Abdelmajid CHOUGRANI, Jean-Marc HICK, Jean-Luc HAINAUT

    Thèses

    Mémoires

    Syllabus

    2008
    Bases de données
    Philippe THIRAN
    2007
    2007
    HTML : SI2
    Stephane DEHOUSSE, Philippe THIRAN
    2006

    Rapports de recherche

    2009
    On-the-fly auditing of business processes
    Kees VAN HEE, Jan HIDDERS, Geert-Jan HOUBEN, Jan PAREDAENS, Philippe THIRAN
    2008
    Cardinality heterogeneities in Web service composition: Issues and solutions
    Michaël MRISSA, Philippe THIRAN, Jean-Marie JACQUET, Djamal BENSLIMANE, Zakaria MAAMAR
    2007
    From Workflow Models to Document Types and Back Again
    Kees VAN HEE, Jan HIDDERS, Geert-Jan HOUBEN, Jan PAREDAENS, Philippe THIRAN
    2007
    Wrapping and reasoning on relational databases with Cross.
    Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN, Geert-Jan HOUBEN, Philippe THIRAN
    2005
    Exposing relational data on the Semantic Web with CROSS
    Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN, Philippe THIRAN, Geert-Jan HOUBEN, Jeen BROEKSTRA
    2005
    Non-destructive Integration of Form-based Views: Extended version with proofs
    Jan HIDDERS, Jan PAREDEANS, Philippe THIRAN, Geert-Jan HOUBEN, Kees VAN HEE
    2004
    Transormations for Integrating Structured Data Schemas and XML DTD
    Philippe THIRAN, Jean-Luc HAINAUT, Fabrice ESTIÉVENART
    2003
    Strategies and techniques for data-centered applications renovation
    Jean HENRARD, Jean-Marc HICK, Philippe THIRAN, Jean-Luc HAINAUT

    Mémoires et thèses supervisés (19)

    Thèses

    Mémoires

    2011
    Game theory based web services collaborative mechanism
    Kathleen CLACENS, Christophe GOFFART
    2009
    Alliance of Web services
    Jenna LOUBRIS