Dr. Oualid (Walid) Ben Ali

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Biography
About me	Personal details
	Education, academic qualifications and employment
	Selected honors and awards
	Technical skills
	Language skills
	Interests
	Collaboration and contacts
	My references
	Others
Research	Current research interests
	Publications	Books
		Refereed journals
		Refereed monographs anc chapters of books
		Refereed conferences, workshops, and symposiums
		Other documents ad research papers
		Posters
		PhD and Master thesis
	Research grants
	Research projects
	Supervising projects
	Attended conferences, workshops, and symposiums	Conferences
		Workshops and symposiums
	Research visits
	Other issues related to research
Teaching	Teaching courses	Undergraduate courses
		PostGraduate courses
	List of courses I taught or I can teach	Courses I taught
		Courses I can teach
	Other issues related to teaching
Community services	Committees
	Event speacker or organizer
	Trainings
	Attending courses (certificates)
	Consulting
	Advising
	Field visits
	Chairong and reviewing services
	Editorial board services
	TVs/Radios interviews
	Publications in newspapers
	Other issues related to community services
Administration	Administrative position
	Other issues related to administration
Others

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Biography:

Year	Description	Location
2011	In 2011, he created the Geographic Information Center (GISC) for the University of Sharjah	Sharjah, UAE
August, 2010	In 2010, he became the Head (Chair) of the MIS Department, College of Business Administration, University of Sharjah. Announcement Arabic English	Sharjah, UAE
2009, August	In 2009, he has a permanent position as assistant professor in the MIS Department, College of Business Administration, University of Sharjah	Sharjah, UAE
2008, August	In 2008, he moved to the UAE, Sharjah, as a visiting assistant professor in the MIS Department, College of Business Administration, University of Sharjah.	Sharjah, UAE
2006, July	After his PhD, he received the prestegious scholarship MARIE CURIE ACTIONS in order to carry on Post-Doctoral research for 24 months. Since, he became a member of the EVAN network and he moved to the UK. For 24 months, we has been working the Hull York Medical School between the SimVis Center in the Computer Science Department in the University of Hull and the Functional Morphology and Evolution Group (FME) in the University of York.	Hull and York, UK
2006, January	In 2006 he has a PhD in Computer Science (CS) from the Departement of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Laval University, in Quebec City, CANADA	Quebec, Canada
2001	Then, he moved to Canada, Quebec, to do a Matser in Computer Science (CS) in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Laval University, Quebec City, CANADA. 2001.	Quebec, Canada
1999	In 1999, he has obtained a Baccalaureate in Management Information Systems (MIS) (Informatique Appliquee a la Gestion) in the Institutes of Management of Tunis (Institut Superieur de Gestion de Tunis (ISG)), in Tunis City, TUNISIA. 1999.	Tunis, Tunisia

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In this section, we present some information about me:

Personal detail :

Education, academic qualification and employment :

Date	Description
April 2011 to Now	Founder and Director of the Geographic Information Systems Center (GISC) : (*) University of Sharjah , Sharjah, UAE. Responsibility: Founder and Director.
August 2010 to Now	Head of Department (Chair) : (*) Department of Management Information Systems , College of Business Administration, University of Sharjah , Sharjah, UAE. Responsibility: Administration.
August 2009 to August 20011	Assistant Professor: (*) Department of Management Information Systems , College of Business Administration, University of Sharjah , Sharjah, UAE. Responsibility: Teaching, Research, Administration, Services.
August 2008 to August 2009	Visiting Assistant Professor: (*) Department of Management Information Systems, College of Business Administration, University of Sharjah , Sharjah, UAE. Responsibility: Teaching, Research, Administration, Services.
July 2006 to July 2008	Prestigious scholarship MARIE CURIE ACTIONS Post-Doctoral research fellow in Computer Science (The EVAN Network www.evan.at ): Under the supervision of Dr. Roger Philips (*) and Dr. Paul O’Higgins (**). (*) The SimVis Simulation and Visualization Research Group, Department of computer science, the University of Hull, Hull, England, United Kingdom (**) The Hull York Medical School, The University of York, York, England, United Kingdom. Topic: The development of a 3D visualization and simulation tools in the field of Geometric Morphometrics (GMM).
January 2006 to July 2006	Assistant researcher in Computer Science: Under the supervision of Dr. Bernard Moulin (*) (*) Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Laval University, Québec, Canada. Topic: The exploration of the development of a 3D virtual museum on the Internet with virtual intelligent agents.
September 2001 to January 2006	Ph.D. in Computer Science under the supervision of Dr. Bernard Moulin (*) and Dr. Francois DesRosier (**). (*) Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Laval University, Québec, Canada. (**) Management Department, Laval University, Québec, Canada. Topic: MultiAgent GeoSimulation of Shopping behavior in a shopping Mall: A method and its application.
September 1999 To May 2001	Master in Computer Science under the supervision of Dr. Bernard Moulin (*) and Dr. Sylvain DeLisle (**). (*) Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Laval University, Québec, Canada. (*) Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, The Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada. Topic: Development of Ontology-Based Search Engine.
September 1995 to June 1999	Bachelor in Computer Science applyed to management (MIS: Management Information systems) under the supervision of Mrs. Amina Sayeb (*) (*) Department of Management Information Systems, (Management Institute of Tunis) Institut Supérieure de Gestion (ISG), Tunis, Tunisia. Topic: Development of an indexing and search meta-engine and tool to compare Search engines on the Internet.

Selected honors and awards:

Date	Honor and awards
2012	3rd Place Award, GISWORX Mobile Developers Challenge (GMDC), GISWORX 2012, Dubai, National competition
2009	2nd Place Award, URC 2009 (first Undergraduate Research Conference), Zayed University, Dubai, National competition
2006-2008	Full Post-doctoral MARIE CURIE fellowship (MARIE CURIE Actions one of the most prestigious fellowship in Europe) (University of hull and University of York, United Kingdoms) with the EVAN Training Network (http://www.evan.at/).
2006-2006	Full Scholarship for research assistance (6 Months) Scholarship (GEOIDE fundations) (Québec, Canada).
2001-2006	Full Ph.D. Scholarship (GEOIDE foundations) (Québec, Canada).
2001-2005	Full Ph.D. Scholarship (Government of Tunisia) (Québec, Canada).
1999-2001	Full Master. Scholarship (Government of Tunisia) (Québec, Canada).
1995-1999	Baccalaureat. Scholarship (Government of Tunisia) (Tunis, Tunisia).
1998	Ranked 1st (4th year) in ISG (Institue Superieur de Gestion) (Management Institute of Tunis) , Tunis, Tunisia.
1997	Ranked 1st (3rd year) in ISG (Institue Superieur de Gestion) (Management Institute of Tunis), Tunis, Tunisia.
1996	Ranked 1st (2nd year) in ISG (Institue Superieur de Gestion) (Management Institute of Tunis), Tunis, Tunisia.
1995	Ranked 1st (1st year) in ISG (Institue Superieur de Gestion) (Management Institute of Tunis), Tunis, Tunisia.

Interests:

Collaboration and contacts:

My references :

In this section, we present the research activities:

Current research interests:

Researh interests
Surface programming (Microsoft Surface 2)
Cloud computing
Mobile applications development (Windows Phone 7, Android, and iOS) and Mobile GIS, Click here to visit the Mobile applications development portal (Windows Phone 7, Android, and iOS) I have created
Geographic Information systems (GIS) and web-mapping (Web-based GIS, Google Maps API and Google Earth API), and GIS Mobile applications development, Click here to visit the GIS and RS center that I have created.
Location intelligence: Spatial Data Mining and Spatial OLAP (SOLAP)
Business intelligence: Data analysis, Datamining, On Line Analytical Processing ( OLAP), etc.
Serious games
GIS-based MultiAgent Simulation = MultiAgent GeoSimulation
Modeliing and simulation using MultiAgent Systems/ Computer modelling and simulation
Artificial Intelligence, intelligent agent and MultiAgent Systems
Computer graphics and scientific visualuzation : 2D and 3D
Intelligent Game development (2D and 3D)
Geometric modelling (meshes, surfaces, volumes)
Software engineering
Scientific visualuzation
etc.

Publications:

• Books:

Year	Semester	Cover page	Description	Status
201x	na		Ali Walid (201x) "Computer simulation: The past, the present, and the future". ISBN-10: Not fixed yet ISBN-13: Not fixed yet Link of the book: Not fixed yet Will be released: Not fixed yet	In preparation
2008	na		Ali Walid (2008) "2D/3D MultiAgent GeoSimulation: A Generic Method and its Application". ISBN-10: 3836472295 ISBN-13: 978-3-8364-7229-6 Online link: Link of the book AMAZON, Click here please See section: Where can you find my book on my book page? Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K. Click here for the wbsite of the publishing house. Released: 28 Feb 2008. See my book page.	Published

• Refereed journals:

Year	Semester	Cover page	Description	Status
2012-2013	Spring		* Oualid (Walid) Ben Ali, Saleha, Yasmin (2012). "Blood donors Mobile Geo-located seacrh engine ", Submitted to the ...	In preparation
2012-2013	Spring		* Abeer Al Bannai, Najla AlBannai, and Oualid (Walid) Ben Ali (2012). "Geo-located IT Assets management: The case of the University of Sharjah ", Submitted to the ...	In preparation
2012-2013	Spring		* Oualid (Walid) Ben Ali (2012). "Parent's Relationship Managemnt Application, No student left behind: The case of the University of Sharjah", Submitted to ...	In preparation
2012-2013	Spring		* Oualid (Walid) Ben Ali (2013). "x ", Submitted to the Journal of Software. A Bidirectional Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Network.	Submitted and under review
2012-2013	Spring		* Oualid (Walid) Ben Ali (2013), "Real-Time Traffic Patrol Allocation for Abu Dhabi Emirate (UAE)". Journal of Traffic and Logistics Engineering, Vol 1, No 1.	Accepted and publisehd (pdf) (web)
2012-2013	Spring		* Nabil El Kadhi and Oualid (Walid) Ben Ali (2013). "Trsut based security framework model for GeoCloud", the International Journal of Power Control Signal and Computation (IJPCSC) (link) (link of the volume), Vol 5, No 1. ppt 56-62.	Accepted and publisehd (pdf) (web)
2011-2012	Spring		* Waleed Al Sabhan and Oualid (Walid) Ben Ali (2012).”Mobile Land Information System (MLIS): A GIS-based E-Government Application”. International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation (IJMLO) ISSN (Online): 1746-7268 - ISSN (Print): 1746-725X	Accepted and not published yet, Volume 5 and above
2011-2012	Spring		* Farhat Nadia, Ali Oualid (Walid) Ben, et al. (2012). “Effective Learning Outcomes Assessment: The case of MIS Department at the UoS”. Journal of Education and Vocational Research, Vol 3, N 2, pp. 58-70, Feb 2012, (ISSN 2221-2590), Intrnational Foundation for Research and development.	Published (PDF)
2010-2011	Spring		* Waleed Al Sabhan and Oualid (Walid) Ben Ali (2011).” A New Multimodal Approach Using Data Mining: The Case of Jobseekers in The UAE”. International Journal of Data Analysis and Information Systems (IJDAIS), Volume 3, No1, January-June 2011.	Published (√)
2010-2011	Spring		* Oualid (Walid) Ben Ali, Mouakkat Samar (2011). “Integrating OLAP/SOLAP in E-Business domains: An Empirical Study”. Submitted to the Information Resources Management Journal. Accepted and waiting for publication. Journal website	Accepted (√) (March 2011) and waiting for publication
2010-2011	Fall		* I.Bugaighis, P.O’Higgins, B.Tiddeman, CR.Mattick, P.Hodgkinson, W (O).Ali, and R.Hobson (2008). "Three-dimensional Geometric Morphometrics applied to the study of children with cleft lip and/or palate from the North East of England", The European Journal of Orthodontics 2010; doi: 10.1093/ejo/cjp140. (Web) PDF	Published (√)
2007	na		* Ali Walid and Moulin Bernard, Yvan Bédard, Marie-Josée Proulx, and Sonia Rivest (2007). "Coupling MultiAgent Geosimulation and SOLAP for better géosimulation data analysis", URISA Journal, vol. 19, n. 2, 2007. PDF Proceeding http://www.urisa.org/ Click here for the Online journla volume Vol 19 N. 2 Clcik here for the abstract of the paper on the journal's website	Published
2006	na		* Moulin Bernard and Ali Walid (2006). "Perception-Based multi-agent geo-simulation in the service of retail location decision-making in a shopping mall", in the Canadian Journal of Regional Science (CJRS)/Revue Canadienne des Science Regionales, Vol. XXIX, n. 3, Autumn/Automne 2006, 421-444, ISSN: -0705-4580-. PDF To buy the paper on amazon, clich here for the link. (to buy the article on www.amazon.com) http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/CJRS/ (Journal web page) Abstract page: http://www.researchville.com/doc/1G1-166777470.html Abstract page: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-166777470.html Abstract page: http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-32729679_ITM	Published

• Refereed monographs and chapters of books:

Year	Semester	Description	Status
2007	na	* Moulin Bernard and Ali Walid (2007). "Une méthode de conception de géo-silumation pour la modélisation multi-agent des déplacements individuels", Chapter A6, Traité IGAT (Information Géographique et aménagement du territoire), Information géographique et dynamique urbaine. Thériault and Des Rosiers 2007. The English version of this chapter is coming soon (under development). Main title: Geographic Informatin and Urban Dynamics. Sub-Title: Volume I: Mobility and Urban Form: From Analysis to Simulation. Chapter Title (Chapter 9 of the book): A GeoSimulation design method for modelling multi-agent individual trips. (Web)	Published
2006	na	* Walid Ali (2006). ”Developping 2D and 3D multiagent geosimulation, a method and its application: The case of shopping behavior geosimulation in Square One mall (Toronto)”, Association Française pour l’Intelligence Artificielle (AFIA), No. 61, April 2006, Page 9.	Published

• Refereed conferences, workshops and symposiums:

Year	Semester	Description
2012-2013	Spring	* Oualid (Walid) Ben Ali (2013) "Real-Time Fog Warning System: The case of Abu Dhabi area, UAE". Submitted to the the 2nd International Conference on Traffic and Logistic Engineering (ICTLE 2013), Istanbul,Turkey during March 15-16, 2013.
2012-2013	Spring	* Oualid (Walid) Ben Ali (2013), "Real-Time Traffic Patrol Allocation for Abu Dhabi Emirate (UAE)". Submitted to the 2nd International Conference on Traffic and Transportation Engineering (ICTTE 2013), February 2-3, 2013 in Malé, Maldives.
2012-2013	Fall	* Oualid (Walid) Ben Ali (2012), "Innovative teaching strategy using videos and cloud computing". Submitted and accepted in the 3rd International Conference on Computing and Computational Intelligence (ICCCI 2012), Bali Island, Indonesia, December 15-16, 2012.
2011-2012	Spring	* The 4th Undergraduate Research Conference 2012, Zayed University (URC 2011), Dubai, on April 18-19, 2012.
2011-2012	Fall	* Ali Oualid and Mohamed Hammoud. (2011). “G-Government in the UAE: The integration of GIS and E-Government, the Ajman Land Information System Application”. Published in the International Conference on Business Intelligence and Financial Engineering (ICBIFE 2011), 12-13 December 2011, Hong Kong, China.
2010-2011	Spring	* Nezar S., and Ali O. (W.) (2011). “iDiet”. Undergraduate Research Conference 2011, Zayed University (URC 2011), Dubai, on May 4-5, 2011. (Abstract/POSTER) PDF Poster Program
2010-2011	Spring	* Sayed F., Salim A., and Ali O. (W.) (2011). “UAE GIS-based Road Accidents Analyzer using Google Maps API” .Undergraduate Research Conference 2011 (URC 2011), Zayed University, Dubai, on May 4-5, 2011. (Abstract/Oral presentation) PDF Presentation Program
2010-2011	Spring	* Hawas Z., and Ali O. (W.) (2011). “UAE Crime Mapping using Google Maps API”. Undergraduate Research Conference 2011 (URC 2011), Zayed University, Dubai, on May 4-5, 2011. (Abstract/Oral presentation) PDF Presentation Program
2010-2011	Fall	* Ali O. (W.) and Samar Mouakket (2010). “Integrating OLAP/SOLAP with E-Business: A New Conceptual Framework”. International Conference on Electronic-Business Intelligence 2010 (ICEBI), Kunming, China, on December 17-19, 2010. PDF PrintOUT Proceedings Presentation
2009-2010	Spring	* Al Sheikh S. A. and Ali O. (W.) (2010). “An Educational Game in Marine Ecosystem” .Undergraduate Research Conference 2010 (URC 2010), Zayed University, Dubai, on May 5-6, 2010. PDF Presentation DemoVideo
2009-2010	Spring	* Ali Oualid (Walid). (2010). “Towards effective learning environment: A framework”. Sharjah Conference on Basic Sciences Education (Festival of Science), The University of Sharjah, College of Science, Computer Science Department, on April 7-8, 2010. (Abstract) Presentation PDF
2009-2010	Fall	* Farhat Nadia, Ali Oualid (Walid), et al. (2009). “Towards an effective MIS learning outcomes assessment”. Regional Conference on Program and Learning Assessment in Higher Education. Beirut, Lebanon. 6-8 November 2009. (Accepted and presented) PDF Presentation Proceeding (Web)
2008-2009	Spring	* Talha A., Mohammad A., Ali. W(O) (2009) “E-Commerce database analysis using OLAP/SOLAP and DataMining/Spatial DataMining”. 5th May 2009. The proceedings of the First Annual Undergraduate Research Conference on Applied Computing, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE, 5th May 2009. (URC 2009) (Abstract): http://www.zu.ac.ae/urc/ (Won the second place: Oral presentation) PDF Poster
2008-2009	Spring	* W. Ali, “Computer Graphics in the service of Morphology” The 2nd Annual GIM Symposium (Graphics, Image processing and Multimedia databases), 15th February 2009. Department of Computer Science, College of Science, University of Sharjah, UAE. (Abstract) PDF
2008	na	* I.Bugaighis, P.O’Higgins, B.Tiddeman, CR.Mattick, P.Hodgkinson, W.Ali, and R.Hobson (2008). "Three dimensional Geometric Morphometrics applied to the study of children with cleft lip and palate from the North East of England", Leeds Annual Statistical Research (LASR) Workshop (2008): Systems Biology & Statistical Bioinformatics, (Department of Statistics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK) 2008. PDF http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/Statistics/workshop/lasr2008/ http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/Statistics/workshop/
2007	na	* Ali Walid and Moulin Bernard (2007). "MultiAgent GeoSimulation of human behaviors in micro-scale geographic environments: The case of the shopping behavior in a mall", GeoComputation international conference (2007), (The National University or Ireland in Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland) 2007. (Web) PDF (This paper was selected for extension to be published the special issue of the CEUS (Computer Environment Urban Systems) journal.) The Online paper: http://ncg.nuim.ie/geocomputation/sessions/8B/8B2.pdf. The website of the conference: http://ncg.nuim.ie/geocomputation Accepted (list of accepted publications): http://ncg.nuim.ie/geocomputation/materials/Geocomputation2007_acceptedContributions.pdf
2005	na	* Ali Walid and Moulin Bernard (2005). "How artificial intelligent agents do shopping in a virtual mall: A ‘believable’ and ‘usable’ multiagent-based simulation of customer’s shopping behavior in a mall", in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2005. http://www.springerlink.com/content/hml3436026698511/
2005	na	* Ali Walid and Moulin Bernard (2005). "How artificial intelligent agents do shopping in a virtual mall: A ‘believable’ and ‘usable’ multiagent-based simulation of customer’s shopping behavior in a mall", The 19th Canadian AI’06 (Quebec, Quebec City, Canada), 7-9 June 2006. (Web) PDF http://www.ift.ulaval.ca/ai06/
2005	na	* Moulin Bernard and Ali Walid (2005). "A Multi-Agent Geo-Simulation approach to assess the impact of environment changes on crowd behavior", in Proceeding of the first international workshop on crowd simulation (V-CROWDS’ 05), EPFL, VRLab, Lausanne (Switzerland), November 24-25, 2005. (Web) PDF http://vrlab.epfl.ch/v_crowds_05/
2005	na	* Ali Walid and Moulin Bernard (2005). "2D-3D MultiAgent GeoSimulation with knowledge-based agents of customer’s shopping behavior in a shopping mall", in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2005. Click here for the PDF version of the paper.
2005	na	* Ali Walid and Moulin Bernard (2005). "2D-3D MultiAgent GeoSimulation with knowledge-based agents of customer’s shopping behavior in a shopping mall", in Proceeding of COSIT 05 (Conference On Spatial Information Theory). Ellicottville, New York (USA), 14-18 September 2005. (Web) PDF http://www.geog.buffalo.edu/COSIT05/
2005	na	* Ali Walid and Moulin Bernard (2005). "Developing 2D-3D agent-based simulation in geographic environment: An approach and its application to simulate shopping behavior in a mall", in Proceeding of ABS 6 (Agent Based Simulation Workshop 6). Erlangen, Bavaria (Bayern) (Germany), 12-14 September 2005. (Web) PDF http://www10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/abs2005/
2005	na	* Ali Walid and Moulin Bernard (2005). "Towards a generic approach to develop 2D-3D Multiagent Geo-simulation", in Proceedings of the Agent Directed Simulation (ADS’05) (Part of the 2005 Spring Simulation MultiConference (SpringSim’05)), San Diego, California (USA), 2-7 April 2005. (Web) PDF http://www.eng.auburn.edu/SCS-TM/ADS-2005.htm
2004	na	* Sahli Nabil and Ali Walid (2004). "La géosimulation : Des centres commerciaux aux feux de forêts", Symposium Geomatics2004, Montréal, Québec Canada, 26-28 October 2004. (Abstract). (Web) PDF http://www.geomatics2004.com/en/cnt/accueil/index2.htm

• Other documents and research papers :

Year	Semester	Description	Status
2006	na	* Ali Walid and Moulin Bernard (2006). "Projet TOT (Territoires Ouverts ou Open Territories: axe télé-visite) Simulation d’une visite virtuelle d’un musée", Research report for Laboratoire de muséologie et d'ingénierie de la culture (LAMIC) research group at Laval University.2006. PDF	Done
2003	na	* Ali Walid (2003) "Géo-simulation Multiagent : La simulation du comportement d’achat des êtres humains dans un centre d’achat". Proposition de thèse (Thesis proposition), Université Laval, Avril 2003.	Done
2002	na	* Ali Walid (2002) "Le wayfinding et la connaissance spatiale". Examen de synthèse doctoral (doctoral synthesis exam), Université Laval, Juillet, 2002.	Done
2001	na	* Ali Walid (2001) "Système d’indexation et de recherche des documents multimedia". Mémoire de Maîtrise en informatique (Master thesis), Université Laval, Juillet 2001.	Done
1999	na	* Ali Walid and Abidi Ridha (1999) "Le développement d’un méta-moteur de recherche sur Internet". Mémoire de Baccalauréat en informatique de gestion, Institut Supérieur de Gestion, Tunis, Juillet 1999.	Done

• Posters

Year	Semester	Description	Status
2010-2011		* Nezar S., and Ali O. (W.) (2011). “iDiet”. Undergraduate Research Conference 2011, Zayed University (URC 2011), Dubai, on May 4-5, 2011. (Abstract/POSTER) PDF Poster	Done
2008-2009	Spring	* Ahmad A & AlRabie E, Alkindi S, Kaya L, & Oualid (Walid) Ben Ali Interactive Dormitory Management System: IDMS, Presented in the Software Development Tradeshow 2009, University of Wollongon in Dubai, Dubai, UAE, 22 April 2009	Done
2008-2009	Spring	* Talha A. & Mohammad A. & Oualid (Walid) Ben Ali, E-Commerce Database analysis using DataMining and OLAP/SOLAP- Authors: Talha A., Mohammad A., and Dr. Oualid Ben Ali, Presented in the Software Development Tradeshow 2009, University of Wollongon in Dubai, Dubai, UAE, 22 April 2009	Done
2008	na	* Bugaighis I, O'Higgins P, Tiddeman B, Mattick CR, Hodgkinson P & Oualid (Walid) Ben Ali, Three Dimensional Geometric Morphometrics applied to the study of children with cleft lip and/or palate from the North East of England, Presented in the Leeds Annual Statistical Research (LASR 2008), Systems Biology & Statistical Bioinformatics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 2008	Done
2005	na	* Ali Walid and Moulin Bernard (2005), “Towards a generic approach to develop 2D-3D MultiAgent GeoSimulation: Simulating shopping behavior in a mall”, GEOIDE’s 7th annual scientific conference, Quebec, Quebec (Canada), 29-30 May 2005. (Best Poster Award).	Done

• In preparation

• PhD Thesis and Master

Year	Semester	Description	Level
2006	January	Ali Walid (2006) "Developping 2D and 3D multiagent geosimulation, a method and its application: The case of shopping behavior geosimulation in Square One mall (Toronto)". Ph.D Thesis, Université Laval, January 2006. See the MALL_MAGS website. Click here for the thesis abstract Click here for the PDF version of the thesis Click here for the HTML version of the thesis	PhD thesis
2001	June	Ali Walid (2006) "Title". Ph.D Thesis, Université Laval, June 2001.	Master thesis

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• Conferences

Year	Semester	Description	Data and location
2012-2013	Spring	* The 4th Annual Leadership Congress, Alleem Business Congress, 22nd January 2013, Sharjah, UAE	22nd January 2013, Sharjah, UAE
2012-2013	Fall	* The 2nd Google- SIME Geo Event, 16-17 January 2013, Abu Dhabi, UAE	16-17 January 2013, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2012-2013	Fall	* ESRI middle East and Africa User Conference, December 10-12, 2012, Abu Dhabi, UAE.	December 10-12, 2012, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2012-2013	Fall	* Seminar on the Value Proposition and Benefits of Geospatial technology in the UAE, Dubai, UAE, 20 Nobember 2012.	Dubai, UAE, 20 Nobember 2012
2012-2013	Fall	* QFEmirates seminar, 6th december 2012, Sharjah, UAE.	6th december 2012, Sharjah, UAE
2011-2012	Spring	* GISWorx 2012, Dubai, UAE	1-3 May 2012, Dubai
2011-2012	Spring	* Undergraduate Research Conference (URC) 2012 (link)	18-19 April 2012, Dubai
2011-2012	Fall	* International Conference on Business Intelligence and Financial Engineering (ICBIFE 2011); Presented paper: G-Government in the UAE: The integration of GIS and E-Government, the Ajman Land Information System Application.	12-13 December 2011, Hong Kong
2010-2011	Spring	* The Third Annual Undergraduate Research Conference on Applied Computing (URC 2011), Zayed University, Dubai, UAE http://www.zu.ac.ae/urc/	4-5h May 2011, Dubai, UAE
2010-2011	Spring	* First Business Forum
2010-2011	Spring	* GISWorx 2011, Dubai, UAE	14-16 March 2011, Dubai, UAE
2010-2011	Spring	* The TBL (Team-Based Learning) in higher education. Sharjah University, Instructor: Professor Larry Michaelsen, 24-25 March 2011 (I have a certificate for that).
2010-2011	Fall	* The International Conference on Electronic-Business Intelligence: ICEBI 2010, Kunming, China, 17-19 December 2010.	17-19 December 2010, Kunming, China
2010-2011	Fall	* The Young Arab Leaders Summit.	5-6 November 2010, Dubai, UAE
2009-2010	Spring	* The Second Annual Undergraduate Research Conference on Applied Computing, Zayed University, 5th May 2010, Dubai, UAE. 2011. http://www.zu.ac.ae/urc/
2009-2010	Spring	* The 6th Scientific forum 2010, The University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, 2nd May 2010.
2009-2010	Spring	* Sharjah Conference on Basic Sciences Education (Festival of Science), The University of Sharjah, College of Science, Computer Science Department, on April 7-8, 2010.
2009-2010	Spring	* The International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Information Technology MCIT 2010, The University of Sharjah, College of Science, Computer Science Department, on March 2-4, 2010. https://www.sharjah.ac.ae/English/Conferences/mcit/
2009-2010	Fall	* Regional Conference on Program and Learning Assessment in Higher Education, Beirut, Lebanon, 6-8 November 2009.
2008-2009	Spring	* The Special Economic Zones Forum (Free zones, Industrial Zones, and New Economic Cities), 10th and 11st May 2009, Sharjah. “الملتقى العربي للمناطق الاقتصادية والصناعية الخاصة والمناطق الحرة
2008-2009	Spring	* The First Annual Undergraduate Research Conference on Applied Computing, Zayed University, 5th May 2009, Dubai, UAE. http://www.zu.ac.ae/urc/
2008-2009	Spring	* The 3rd Software Development Trade Show 2009, University of Wollongon in Dubai. 22nd April 2009. Dubai, UAE, 22nd April 2009.
2008-2009	Spring	* The fifth scientific research forum at the University of Sharjah, 29th April 2009. The University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE.
2008-2009	Spring	* The 2nd Annual GIM Symposium (Graphics, Image processing and Multimedia databases): Computer Graphics in the service of Morphology, 15th February 2009. Department of Computer Science, College of Science, University of Sharjah, UAE.
2008	na	* The 27th Leeds Annual Statistical Research (LASR) Workshop: Systems Biology & Statistical Bioinformatics, 15th-17th July 2008. Department of Statistics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/lasr2008/ http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/Statistics/workshop/
2008	na	* The Annual and Mid-Term review meeting of EVAN 2008, 13th to 14th March 2008, Paris, France.
2007	na	* The First EVAN fellows training workshop 2007, 12th to 14th November 2007, Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria.
2007	na	* The British Festival of Science 2007, 9th to 15th September 2007, York, UK. http://www.the-ba.net/the-ba/Events/FestivalofScience/ http://www.the-ba.net/the-ba/Events/FestivalofScience/index.html
2007	na	* GeoComputation 2007, 3rd to 5th September 2007, National University of Ireland in Maynooth, Ireland. http://ncg.nuim.ie/geocomputation/
2007	na	* The 26th Leeds Annual Statistical Research (LASR) Workshop: Systems Biology & Statistical Bioinformatics, 4th-6th July 2007. Department of Statistics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/statistics/workshop/lasr2007/ http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/statistics/workshop/lasr2007/cfa.html http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/Statistics/workshop/
2007	na	* York-EVAN-AURORA 3D Workshop: 31st May, – 1st June 2007, IT Centre, York, UK. http://www.evan.at/evan_events/2007/AURA%203D%20workshop/
2007	na	* Face Processing, An Internal Colloquium, 23 May 2007. University of York, United Kingdom.
2007	na	* EVAN (European Virtual Anthropology Network) Workshop: Medical imaging processing and analysis, visualization and virtual environments in anthropology, 12-12 January 2007. University of York and University of Hull, United Kingdom. http://www.evan.at/evan_events/medical-imaging-processing
2007	na	* EVAN (European Virtual Anthropology Network) yearly meeting, 8-9 January 2007. University of York and University of Hull, United Kingdom. http://www.evan.at/evan_events/yearly-meeting-york-hull
2006	na	* Vienna MorphoFest, Summer school, Symposium, and workshop on Geometric Morphometrics, Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna,Vienna (Austria), 11-22 July 2006. http://www.evan.at/evan_events/morpho-fest
2006	na	* 8th GEOIDE Annual Scientific Conference, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta (Canada), 31 May-2 June 2006. http://www.geoide.ulaval.ca/banff_FR.html
2005	na	* 7th GEOIDE Annual Scientific Conference, Quebec City, Quebec (Canada), 29-31 May 2005. http://www.geoide.ulaval.ca/conf7_FR.html
2005	na	* Second workshop MUSCA_MAGS Project (MultiScale Multiagent GeoSimulation), Laval University, Quebec, Quebec City (Canada), 8-9 December 2005 (in the organization committee).
2005	na	* First workshop MUSCA_MAGS Project (MultiScale Multiagent GeoSimulation), Laval University, Quebec, Quebec City (Canada), 2-4 February 2005 (in the organization committee).
2005	na	* Conference On Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 05), Ellicottville, New York (USA), 14-18 September 2005.
2005	na	* 6th Workshop on Agent Based Simulation 2005 (ABS 6 (2005)), Erlangen, Bayern (Germany), 12-14 September 2005.
2005	na	* PROCESSUS second international Colloquium on the behavioural foundations of intergrated land-use and transportation models: Frameworks, models and applications (PROCESSUS Colloquium 2005), Toronto, Ontario (Canada), 12-15 June 2005. (Without submission) http://www.civil.engineering.utoronto.ca/English/Colloquium2005.html
2005	na	* Agent Directed Simulation (ADS’05) (Part of the 2005 Spring Simulation MultiConference (SpringSim’05)), San Diego, California (USA), 2-7 Avril 2005.
2004	na	* Symposium Geomatics 2004, Montreal, Quebec (Canada), 26-28 October 2004.

• Congresses and forums:

Year	Semester	Description	Data and location
2011-2012	Fall	The 3rd Annual Marketing & Branding congress, organized by Alleem Business Congress, Radisson Blu Hotel, Sharjah, UAE.	4 october 2011
2010-2011	Spring	The 3rd Annual Project Management Congress, organized by Alleem Business Congress, Radisson Blu Hotel, Sharjah, UAE.	Tuesday 21 June 2011
2010-2011	Spring	The GIS Career Forum 2011	18 May 2011

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