Associate Professor at Télécom SudParis (TSP, a state graduate engineering school, part of Institut Mines-Télécom, the reference Institute for Information and Communication Technology in France), Evry, France.

Contact : Alda.Gancarski@telecom-sudparis.eu +33 160764531

Teaching

I have participated in the following courses:

• Web Applications.
• Modelling, Databases and Information Systems.
• Relational Databases.
• Advanced Databases to MSc Information Technology (in english).
• Semantic Web (XML, RDF).
• TSP students projects (1st, 2nd and 3rd years).
• TSP Relational Databases Mooc.
• Relational Databases at Télécom Ecole de Management (TEM, French state Telecom Business School), course co-responsible.
• Relational Databases (in english, TEM), course responsible.
• Unix operating system (TEM).
• Introduction to java programming (TEM).

Research Team

I belong to the ACMES research team from TSP. I am also a collaborate member of the gEPL team from the University of Minho (UM), Braga, Portugal. My current research subjects are:

• Context-aware recommendation.
• Trust, reputation and influence in online social networks.

Research Projects

• ANR PAIRSE – Privacy preserving data sharing in P2P environment: a Web service-based approach, 2009-2012.
• KRN: software platform for an intelligent storing and use of XML documents. European Project, 2010-2012.
• RIOPE – Iterative search of learning objects (Recherche Iterative d’Objets Pedagogiques), Projet incitatif GET 2008, project responsible.
• OntXQuery - Interactive information access in XML documents associated with ontologies (Université du Minho, Portugal), 2005-2009. 
• ARA Respire - P2P resources, services, querying and replication (LIP6) 2005-2008.

Supervising

• Monika Rakoczy. PhD Thesis. Subject: Trust-based Recommender System. Thesis director: Amel Bouzeghoub. Co-supervisor: Katarzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska (ESIGETEL). Defended June 2019.
• Jorge Daniel Caldas. MSc Thesis. Subject: Visualisation of dynamic social networks. Co-supervisor: Pedro Rangel Henriques, UM. Defended September 2017.
• André Lara. MSc Thesis. Subject: Visualisation of dynamic ontologies. Co-supervisor: Pedro Henriques, UM. Defended February 2018.
• Tarcisio Malheiro. MSc Thesis. Subject: Safe-return-home service real time data analysis. Co-supervisor: Pedro Henriques, UM. Defended November 2016.
• Sana Hamdi. PhD Thesis. Subject: Trust management model in social networks. Thesis director: Amel Bouzeghoub. Co-supervisor: Sadok Ben Yahia (Faculté de Sciences de Tunis). Defended january 2016.
• Sergio Dias. MSc Thesis. Subject: Automatic Creation of CV extracting data from Online Social Networks. Co-supervisor: Pedro Henriques, UM. Defended November 2015.
• Bouneffouf Djallel. PhD Thesis (Cifre). DRARS, A Dynamic Risk-Aware Recommender System. Thesis director: Amel Bouzeghoub. Start in August 2010, defended 19/12/2013.
• Daniela Fonte, one year research grant, co-supervisor: Pedro Henriques, UM. October 2009 - October 2010. Subject: Query by example in XML retrieval.
• Abir Ben Jemaa, Engineer Final Project at Ecole d'Ingénieurs de Sfax (Tunisie). Subject: Iterative search of composite learning objects. (March - Octobre 2008).