Section: Dissemination

Teaching - Supervision - Juries

Teaching

The next table details the number of lecture hours as well as the number of module responsibilities for each team member.

Table 1.

Name	Position	2013/14	Cursus (*)	Module Resp.
				(per year)
J.-F. Baget	Research Scientist	40	M (UM2)	1
M. Croitoru	Assistant Prof.	198	L2	2
M. Chein	Emeritus Prof.	0
J. Fortin	Assistant Prof	230	Polytech	2
S. Kaci	Professor	198	L and M(UM2)	3
M. Leclère	Assistant Prof.	196	L and M (UM2)	2
M. -L. Mugnier	Professor	192	L and M (UM2)	3
L. Guizol	PhD	64	L (UM2)	no
M. König	PhD	64	L (UM2)	no
A. Arioua	PhD	12	L (UM2)	no

(*) L =Licence, M = Master (M1 = first year, M2 = second year), UM2 = Univ. Montpellier 2 (Sciences), IUT = Institute of Technology of UM2 (Licence Cursus), Polytech = Engineering School of UM2, UM3 = Univ. Montpellier 3 (Art and Humanities)

The courses taught by team members are mainly in Logics (in Licence), Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation, Knowledge Engineering, and Decision Support (in Master). We are also responsible of modules in Web Technologies (Professional L at IUT) and Databases (L).

We have some specific responsibilities in the Computer Science Licence and Master:

• Michel Leclère is co-responsible of the master speciality DECOL (about 30 students) started in September 2011.

• Marie-Laure Mugnier is co-responsible of the Computer Science Master started in September 2011 (about 250 students), which gathers six specialties. She is also leading the Master project for the next four years (LMD4).

• Souhila Kaci is leading the Licence project for the next four years (LMD4).

• Madalina Croitoru is responsible of the special year teaching formation at IUT Montpellier II (25 students).

Supervision

Madalina Croitoru defended her HDR in November Reasoning about Knowledge as Graphs: Practical Artificial Intelligence Applications [15] . The jury was:

• Leila Amgoud, Directeur de Recherche, IRIT, Toulouse, France (reviewer)

• Ollivier Haemmerle, Professeur, IRIT, Toulouse, France (reviewer)

• Jan Top, Professeur, Vrije, Universiteit, Netherlands (reviewer)

• Jérôme Lang, Directeur de Recherche, Paris Dauphine, France (examiner)

• Marie-Laure Mugnier, Professeur, Univ. Montpellier 2, France (examiner)

Bruno Paiva Lima da Silva defended his PhD in January Data Access over Large Semi-Structured Databases [18] . The jury was:

• Ollivier Haemmerlé, Professeur, IRIT (reviewer)

• Fabien Gandon Dr. & HDR, Inria Sophia-Antipolis (reviewer)

• Odile Papini, Professeur, Université Aix-Marseille II (examiner)

• Marie-Laure Mugnier, Professeur, Université Monpellier II (advisor)

• Jean-François Baget, Chargé de Recherche, Inria (co-advisor)

• Madalina Croitoru, Maître de Conférences, Université Montpellier II (co-advisor)

Mélanie König defended her PhD in October Interrogation de grandes bases de connaissances : algorithmes de réécriture de requêtes conjonctives en présence de règles existentielles [17] . The jury was:

• Bernardo Cuenca Grau Tenure, Associate Professor, Univ. Oxford (reviewer)

• Igor Stephan, Maître de conférence HDR, Univ. Angers (reviewer)

• Marianne Huchard, Professeur, Univ. Montpellier II (examiner)

• Lhouari Nourine, Professeur, Univ. Blaise Pascal (examiner)

• Meghyn Bienvenu, Chargé de recherche CNRS, Univ. Paris Sud (examiner)

• Remi Coletta, Maître de conférence, Univ. Montpellier II (examiner)

• Marie-Laure Mugnier, Professeur, Univ. Montpellier II (advisor)

• Michel Leclère, Maître de conférence, Univ. Montpellier II (co-advisor)

Tjitze Rienstra defended his PhD in October Argumentation in Flux – Modelling change in the theory of argumentation. The jury was:

• Lluis Godo, professor, Institut d’Investigacio en Intelligencia Artificial, Bellaterra, Spain (chairman)

• Pietro Baroni, professor, Universita degli Studi di Brescia, Italy (vice-chairman)

• Beishui Liao, professor, Zhejiang University, China (member)

• Richard Booth, researcher, Université du Luxembourg (member)

• Leon van der Torre, professor, Université du Luxembourg (co-supervisor)

• Souhila Kaci, professor, Université de Montpellier, France (co-supervisor)

Léa Guizol defended her PhD in November Partitioning semantics for entity resolution and link repairs in bibliographic knowledge bases [16] . The jury was:

• Nathalie Aussenac, Directeur de recherches, CNRS, IRIT, Toulouse (reviewer)

• Englebert Mephu Nguifo, Professeur, Université Clermont-Ferrand (reviewer)

• Mathieu Roche, Directeur de recherches, Université Montpellier II (examiner)

• Marie-Laure Mugnier, Professeur Université Montpellier II (advisor)

• Madalina Croitoru, Maître de conférences, Univ. Montpellier II (co-advisor)

The PhDs in progress are:

• Fabien Garreau (ANR ASPIQ grant), Algorithms for stable model semantics and existential rules (ANR ASPIQ, with Univ. of Angers), Sept. 2012, supervised by Igor Stephan, Jean-François Baget and Laurent Garcia

• Swan Rocher (ANR Qualinca grant), Reasoning with inconsistent knowledge bases in presence of existential rules (ANR Qualinca), Sept. 2013, supervised by Marie-Laure Mugnier and Jean-François Baget

• Namrata Patel (Univ. Montpellier II grant), Preference Handling in Decision Problems (ministry grant), Sept. 2013, supervised by Souhila Kaci

• Abdallah Arioua (ANR Dur-Dur& INRA Grant), Argumentation Theory and its Application to Knowledge-based Systems, started Nov. 2013, supervised by Patrice Buche, Madalina Croitoru and Jérôme Fortin.

Juries

Jury member - Mustafa AL BAKRI - Uncertainty-Sensitive Reasoning over the Web of Data - December 15, 2014 - Université de Grenoble, LIG (Marie-Laure Mugnier)

Jury member - Rim TOUHAMI - Construction et évolution d'une ressource termino-ontologique dédiée à la représentation de relations n-aires, application à l'évaluation du risque microbiologique dans des aliments emballés - Université Montpellier 2, UMR IATE, MIA & AgroParisTech, September 5, 2014 (Marie-Laure Mugnier)

Reviewer - Maxime LEFRANCOIS - "Représentation des connaissances sémantiques lexicales de la Théorie Sens-Texte : Conceptualisation ; représentation ; et opérationnalisation des définitions lexicographiques" - Université de Nice, Inria & I3S, June 24, 2014 (Marie-Laure Mugnier)

Recruitment committee member: Assistant Professor position at Université d'Orsay (Marie-Laure Mugnier) Assistant Professor position at Université Montpellier 2 (Madalina Croitoru, Marie-Laure Mugnier)