20/12/2015

Registration starts from 14:00

Day 1

21/12/2015

8h00 - 9h00

Registration

9h00 - 10h00

Opening ceremony

·         HE Dr. Abdallah Hamad Muharab
General Director of ALECSO

·         HE Dr. Abdelaziz Touijri
General Director of ISESCO

·         Dr. Indrajit Banerjee, UNESCO

·         Dr. Axel Leblois, United Nations, G3ICT

·         Dr. Mohamed Essaïdi, Director of ENSIAS

·         Dr. Mohamed Jemni, Director of ICT, ALECSO

Official Opening Speech:
HE. Minister of Solidarity and Woman, Morocco

10h00 - 10h30

Coffee break

10h30 - 11h30

Keynote: The New Delhi Declaration on Inclusive ICTs for Persons with Disabilities - Challenges and Prospects for the Region

Dr. Indrajit Banerjee, UNESCO, France

11h30 - 13h00

Session 01: Accessibility and e-Inclusion

Chair: Dr. Moussa Charfeddine

-          Islam Elkabani, Lama Hamandi, Rached Zantout and Simar Mans . Toward Better Web Accessibility

-          Kazunori Minatani. A Proposal for a User Interface with a Several-Cell Refreshable Braille Display: A Case of a Wristwatch-Shaped Wireless Refreshable Braille Display

-          Oussama Tahan, Farah Baraké, Nabil Seliman and Zaher Merhi. My vWallet – A Smartphone Application for Assisting People with Math Difficulties at Point of Sale

-          Hifza Javed, Asma Abdulla Al-Attiyah and John-John Cabibihan. Autism in the Gulf States: Why Social Robotics is the way forward (Short Paper)

-          Amine Arrahmane: Digital accessibility using FLOSS : The Gnome3 Desktop Environment

Session 02: ICT and Education

Chair: Dr. Fathi Essalmi

-          Fahima Hajjej, Yousra Bendaly Hlaoui and Leila Jemni Ben Ayed. Reverse Engineering to Create a Generic Workflow E-Assessment System

-          Sameh Ghallabi, Fathi Essalmi, Mohamed Jemni and Kinshuk. Optimal composition of e-learning personalization parameters

-          Belhassen Guettat and Ramzi Farhat. An approach to assist learners to identify their learning objectives in Personal Learning Environment (PLE)

-          Mohammed Aitdaoud, Fatima Zahra Guerss, Imane Lmati, Mohammed Talbi, Habib Benlahmar, Naceur Achtaich, Khadija Douzi and Abdelouahed Namir. Standardized modeling learners Ontology « SLMonto » to Support Interactive Learning Environment

-           El Ghouch Nihad, Zaoui Seghroucheni Yassine, En-Naimi El Mokhtar, El Mohajir Badr Eddine and Al Achhab Mohammed. An Interface to Index the Didactic Resources in an Adaptive Learning System (ALS)

-          Fedia Hlioui, Faiez Gargouri and Nadia Aloui. A System for Composition and Adaptation of Educational Resources based on Learner Profile 

13h00 - 14h30

Lunch

14h30 - 15h30

UNESCO Thematic session: From exclusion to empowerment – Global overview for the implementation of the New Delhi Declaration in the MENA region.

Moderator: Dr. Indrajit Banarjee, Director of UNESCO’s Information Society Division

-          Mr. Mohamed Al-Tarawneh, Inaugural Chairperson and Current Member of the UN-CRPD Committee – OHCHR, Geneva

-          Prof. Alireza Darvishy, Head of the ICT Accessibility Lab Zurich University for Applied Sciences

-          Prof. Mohamed Jemni, ICT Director, ALECSO

-          Mr. Amine Arrahmane, ISESCO

15h30 - 16h00

Coffee break

16h00 - 17h30

Session 03: Professional and NGOs session

Chair: Mr Larbi Tabit, Secretary General, Ministry of Solidarity of Women, Morocco

-          Eman Altamimi, Taif Center for Training & Counseling, Qatar

-          Imed Eddine Chaker, Rights of people with disabilities Association, Tunisia

-          Ahmad Mahmoud Issa, President of Kodharef Digital City, Sudan

-          Moussa Charfeddine, Friends of the Disabled Association, Libanon

-          Mohammed Qassar, President of Association « Sahraoui de Solidarité pour le Projet d'Autonomie et de Developpement Durable », Morocco

Lobna Smida,  Researcher in Disablity issues , Tunisia

Session 04: Big Data

Chair: Prof. Faiez Gargouri

-          Fatéma Zahra Benchara, Mohamed Youssfi, Omar Bouattane and Hassan Ouajji. A Mobile Agent Team Works Model for HPC Big Data Analysis: Fuzzy Logic Application

-          Hanen Abbes and Faiez Gargouri. How to Ensure Interoperability in the Big Data Era? (Short Paper)

-          Ait-Mlouk Addi, Derbali Badi, Gharnati Fatima and Agouti Tarik. A Choice of Relevant Association Rules Based on Multi-criteria Analysis approach (Short Paper)

-          Zaki Brahmi, Amel Bousrih. Optimizing cost and response time for data intensive services composition based on ABC algorithm

-          Passant Kandil, Sherin Moussa and Nagwa Badr. A Methodology for Regression Testing Reduction and Prioritization of Agile Releases

Day 2

22/12/2015

9h00 - 10h00

Keynote : The unstoppable momentum of the CRPD around the world: status report and success factors for ICT Accessibility

Dr. Axel Leblois, United Nations G3ICT, USA

10h00 - 11h00

Keynote : Sign Language processing: from resources to applications

Prof. Annelies Braffort, CNRS, France

11h00 - 11h30

Coffee break

11h30 - 13h00

Session 05: Accessible E-learning

Chair: Dr. Ramzi Farhat

-          Anoual El Kah and Abdelhak Lakhouaja. Arabic learning disabilities in public primary schools: the case of west side of Morocco.

-          Yassine Tazouti, Siham Boulaknadel and Youssef Fakhri. Enhancing young children's mathematics skills using serious game approach (Short Paper)

-          Islam Elkabani and Rached Zantout. A Framework for Helping the Visually Impaired Learn and Practice Math

Session 06: Computer vision

Chair: Prof. Mohamed Essaidi

-          Abdallah Meraoumia, Maarouf Korichi and Salim Chitroub. Hidden Markov Models & Principal Component Analysis for Multispectral Palmprint Identification

-          Hannane Rachida, Elboushaki Abdessamad and Afdel Karim. An Automatic Video Surveillance Indexing based on Facial Feature Descriptors

-          Imad Mohamed Ouloul, Karim Afdel, Abdellah Amghar and Zakaria Moutakki. Automatic Face Recognition with Aging Using the Invariant Features

-           Elboushaki Abdessamad, Hannane Rachida, Afdel Karim and Koutti Lahcen. Efficient Object Matching Using Partial Dominant Orientation Descriptor

-          Dalila Trad, Tarik Al-Ani and Mohamed Jemni. A feature extraction technique of EEG based on EMD-BP for motor imagery classification in BCI

13h00 - 14h00

Lunch

14h00 - 15h30

UN-G3Ict Panel  :  Mobile for Persons with Disabilities: a New Frontier for Accessibility Innovation”

Moderator: Axel Leblois, President, G3ict, Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs

-          Francesca Cesa Bianchi, Vice President, Institutional Relations, G3ict

-          Ms Bothaina Esmat, Minister’s Advisor for Social Responsibility and Services, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Republic of Egypt

-          Shadi Shadi Abou-Zahra, W3C Wed Accessibility Initiative, International Program Office Activity Lead  W3C Wed Accessibility Initiative, International Program Office Activity Lead

-          Mahira Hassan, Secretary General, Vodafone Egypt Foundation

-          Imed Chaker, NGO, Tunisia

15h30 - 16h00

Coffee break

16h00 - 17h30

Session 07: Natural Language Processing

Chair: Prof. Ezzeddine Mazroui

-          Emna Hkiri, Souheyl Mallat and Mounir Zrigui. Improving Coverage and Performance of Arabic Rule based NER systems using a bilingual lexicon

-          Fawaz Al-Anzi and Dia Abuzeina. Stemming Impact on Arabic Text Categorization Performance: a Survey

-          Imen Bouaziz Mezghanni and Faiez Gargouri. A Filtering proposal for extracted Arabic term candidates

-          Mohamed Achraf Ben Mohamed, Sarra Zrigui, Anis Zouaghi and Mounir Zrigui. N-Scheme Model: an Approach Towards Reducing Arabic Language Sparseness

-          Dhaou Ghoul. Rules-based grammatical and semantic disambiguation of the token “ḥattā” in Arabic

-           Mohamed Boudchiche and Azzeddine Mazroui. Evaluation of the ambiguity caused by the absence of diacritical marks in Arabic texts: statistical study

Session 08: Learning games

Chair: Dr. Mounia Abik

-          Mohamed Ali Khenissi, Fathi Essalmi. Automatic Generation of Fuzzy Logic Components for Enhancing the Mechanism of Learner's Modeling while using Educational Games

-          Raouf Chebka and Fathi Essalmi: A crosswords game for Deaf

-          Ahmed Tlili, Fathi Essalmi, Mohamed Jemni and Kinshuk. An Educational game for teaching computer Architecture: Evaluation using learning analytics

-          Yosra Bouzid, Mohamed Ali Khenissi. Designing a Game Generator as an Educational Technology for the Deaf Learners

-          Meriem Rjiba and Lilia Cheniti-Belcadhi. Self-Assessment through Serious Games Based on Semantic Web

Day 3

23/12/2015

9h00 - 10h00

ITU Panel: The ITU Arab Regional Initiative on ICT Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities

Moderator: Mr. Karim Abdelghani, Programme Coordinator in the ITU Arab Regional Office

-          Ms Bothaina Esmat, Advisor for Social Responsibility & Services, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of Egypt

-          Ms. Lobna Smida, Reasercher on Disability

10h00 - 11h30

Session 09: Advanced Accessible systems For Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

Chair: Mr Karim Abdelghani

-          Mehrez Boulares. Declarative and parametric structure of ASL signs

-          Nadia Aouiti, Mohamed Jemni and Samir Samreen. Arab Gloss Annotation System for Arabic Language

-          Marco Alfonse, Ahmed Ali and Ahmed Samir. Arabic Sign Language Benchmark Database for Different Heterogeneous Sensors

-          Khalil Saleem. System for People with Hearing Impairment to Solve their Social Integration

Session 10: Privacy & security

Chair: Dr. Ismail Abdelhamid

-          Yacine Ichibane, Youssef Gahi, Mouhcine Guennoun and Zouhair Guennoun. Performance Analysis of Private Information Retrieval Scheme based on Homomorphic Encryption

-          Suah Kim, Dessalegn Atnafu, Hyoung Joong Kim and Jonathan Lepsoy. Metadata Protection Scheme For JPEG Privacy & Security Using Hierarchical and Group-based Models

-           Solomon Negash and Hossain Shahriar. Mobile App Permissions Awareness

-          Adil Maarouf, Marzouk Abderrahim and Abdelkrim Haqiq. Practical modeling of the SLA Life Cycle in Cloud Computing

-          Rim Rebai. Cloud Computing for an Adaptive Web Interface

11h30 - 12h00

Coffee break

12h00 - 13h30

Session 11: Pattern Understanding

Chair: Prof. Mounir Zrigui

-          Souheyl Mallat, Emna Hkiri and Mounir Zrigui. Query contextual enrichment to improve Arabic information retrieval systems

-          Wafa Ghemmaz and Fouzia Benchikha. Instance Matching Based on Discriminative Property Values

-          Mohamed Labidi, Mohsen Maraoui and Mounir Zrigui. Semantics indexing of continuous speech

-          Abdellah Idrissi and Hajar Rehioui. An Improvement of DENCLUE Algorithm for the Data Clustering

-          Rania Yangui, Ahlem Nabli and Faiez Gargouri. Semi-supervised Hierarchical Clustering based on Scheduling Mixed Features using Ontology

-          Safae Cherdal and Salma Mouline: A Petri Net Model for a Composed Biological System

Session 12: Visualization and virtual reality

Chair: Mr Amine Errahmane

-          Heyam Hayek and Phillip Youngblood. Science Communication in 3D Virtual Worlds: The Science Circle Alliance in Second Life

-          Noura A. Semary, Sondos M.Fadl, Magda S. Essa and Ahmed F. Gad.Currency Recognition System for Visually Impaired: Egyptian Banknote as a Study Case

-          Imen Lagha and Achraf Othman. A Novel Approach for Human Face Texture Generation Based on MPEG-4 Standard

-          Silkan Hassan. A new fast method for 3D indexing and Retrieval based on mapping techniques

-          Ibtissem Talbi, Oussama Elghoul. Towards the automatic generation of sign language gestures from 2D images

13h30 - 15h00

Lunch

15h00 - 16h30

Session13 : Advanced Computer Services

Chair: Prof. Faiez Gargouri

-          Wala Ben Messaoud, Khaled Ghedira, Youssef Ben Halima and Henda Ben Ghezala. Survey of Web Service Composition

-          Abderrahim Ait Wakrime and Said Jabbour. On QoS Web Service Composition Using Satisfiability

-          Riadh Ghribi and Lilia Cheniti Belcadhi. Towards Feedback Personalization in Mobile Assessment Based on Semantic Web

-          Abdelhay Haqiq and Bouchaïb Bounabat. Towards an approach for behavioural specification and verification of Reactive Multi-Agent

-          Imane Lmati, Guerss Fatima Zahra, Mohammed Aitdaoud, Khadija Douzi, El Habib Ben Lahmar, Achtaich Naceur, Mohammed Talbi and Abdelwahed Namir. Alignment between two domain ontologies (Case of educational orientation in mathematics education)

-          Zouhair Abdelhamid and En-Naimi El Mokhtar. Incremental Dynamic Case-Based Reasoning-Multi-Agents System: From Static to Dynamic Cycle

Session 14: Advanced Computer Applications and Networks

Chair: Prof Abdelhak Lakhouaja

-          Monia Hamdi and Saber Mhiri. Dynamic mesh router placement for connectivity maximization in wireless mesh networks

-          Abdellah Idrissi and Abdelquoddouss Laghrissi. VANET congestion control approach using empathy

-          Hanane Aznaoui, Said Raghay, Layla Aziz and Addi Aitmlouk. A Comparative study of routing protocols in WSN (Short Paper)

-          Barkouk Hamid and En-Naimi El Mokhtar. Performance Analysis of The Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET) Routing Protocols AODV, DSDV and OLSR

-          Abdellah Idrissi and Sara Retal. Gateway selection in Vehicular Ad-hoc Network

-          Mohamed Hassan and Amr El Zawawi. Wireless Power Transfer (wireless lighting)

-           Seddiki Noureddine and Douli Amel. Maximization the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks (Short Paper)

-           Samia Kouki and Talel Ladhari. An empirical study of an Algorithm solving the PFSP with Load Balancing on the Grid

16h30 - 17h00

Closing ceremony  and banquet