Tarak CHAARI Computer Science Associate Professor at the Higher Institute of Electronics and Communication, University of Sfax, Tunisia

Research Unit on Development and Control of Distributed Applications National Engineering School of Sfax Route de Soukra km 4 (B.P. 1173) 3038, Sfax-Tunisia +216 74 274 088 fax: +216 74 666 578 e-mail: tarak.chaari@redcad.org

Education

• 2007       Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon in France INSA Lyon
  
• 2003       Research Master's degree (DEA in French) in Computer Science from the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon in France INSA Lyon
  
• 2002       Engineer degree in Computer Science from the National School of Engineers of Sfax-Tunisia ENIS
  

Research Topics

• Semantic service oriented architectures
  
• Adaptation in pervasive environments
  
• Context aware systems
  

Publications

• Book Chapters
  
  1- T. Chaari , M. Zouari , F. Laforest Ontology Based Context-Aware Adaptation Approach. Book Chapter In: Context-Aware Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing for Enhanced Usability: Adaptive Technologies and Applications. Dragan Stojanovic (Ed) ISBN 978-1-60566-290-9. IGI publishing 2009
• International Journal papers
  
  2- K. Fakhfakh, T. Chaari, S. Tazi, K. Drira and M. Jmaiel. Semantic Enabled Framework for SLA Monitoring. International Journal On Advances in Software, May 2009.
  3- T. Chaari, D. Ejigu, F. Laforest and V.-M. Scuturici, A Comprehensive Approach to Model and Use Context for Adapting Applications in Pervasive Environments, Int. Journal of Systems and Software, volume 80, issue 12, december 2007, p1973-1992, Elsevier, 2007
  4- T. Chaari, F. Laforest and A. Celentano. Adaptation in Context-Aware Pervasive Information Systems: The SECAS Project. Int. Journal on Pervasive Computing and Communications (http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/ijpcc/ijpcc.jsp) volume 3, issue 4, 2007
• French Journals papers
  
  5- T. Chaari, F Laforest, Génération et adaptation automatiques des interfaces utilisateurs pour des environnements multi-terminaux. Revue Ingénierie des systèmes d’Information, n° spécial systèmes d’information pervasifs, volume 9 - n°2/2004:11-38
• International Conferences papers
  
  6- K. Fakhfakh, T. Chaari, S. Tazi, K. Drira and M. Jmaiel. Wordnet based approach towards a better comprehension between providers and clients. International Conference on Software Engineering. CONSEG 2009. 17-19, December 2009, Chennai, India.
  7- K. Fakhfakh, T. Chaari, S. Tazi, K. Drira and M. Jmaiel. A comprehensive ontology-based approach for SLA Obligations monitoring. The Second IEEE International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences. ADVCOMP 2008. September 29 - October 4, Valencia, Spain. (Best paper award)
  8- T. Chaari, D. Ejigu, F. Laforest and V.-M. Scuturici, Modeling and Using Context in Adapting Applications to Pervasive Environments. IEEE International. Conference on Pervasive Services, Lyon, France, June 2006
  9- T. Chaari, B. Elloumi, F. Laforest A Generic Description Language for the Automatic Generation of Pervasive Medical User Interfaces: The SEFAGI Project. IEEE Health Pervasive Systems Workshop, Lyon, France, June 2006
  10- F. Laforest, T. Chaari SEFAGI: Simple Environment For Adaptable Graphical Interfaces - Generating user interfaces for different kinds of terminals. 7th International Conference on Entreprise Information Systems (ICEIS), 24-28 May 2005, Miami, USA
  11- T. Chaari, F. Laforest, A. Celentano, Service-Oriented Context-Aware Application Design. First International Workshop on Managing Context Information in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (MCMP), May 9 2005, Ayia Napa, CYPRUS
  12- F. Laforest, A. Tchounikine, T. Chaari, H. Charles, F. Calevro, SITRANS : A Web information system for microarray experiments. The Medical Informatics Europe Congress, Geneva, August 2005
  13- T. Chaari, F. Laforest, A. Flory. Génération automatique d'interfaces graphiques pour la saisie et la consultation de données : application au domaine médical. Int. Conference On Sciences of Electronic, Technology of Information and Telecommunications, (SETIT) Sousse, Tunisia, 15-20 March 2004.
• French Conferences papers
  
  14- K. Fakhfakh, T. Chaari, S. Tazi, K. Drira and M. Jmaiel. Modélisation et monitoring des contrats de qualité de services en utilisant les ontologies. 2èmes Journées Francophones sur les Ontologies. 1–3 Décembre 2008, Lyon, France
  15- T. Chaari, F. Laforest, A. Flory, Adaptation des applications médicales à des contextes multiples. 11 èmes Journées Francophones d’Informatique Médicale 12 et 13 mai 2005 à Lille (JFIM 2005)
  16- T. Chaari, F. Laforest, A. Flory, Adaptation des applications au contexte en utilisant les services WEB. Deuxièmes Journées Francophones: Mobilité et Ubiquité (UbiMob 2005) du 31 mai au 3 juin 2005, Grenoble, France
  17- T. Chaari, F. Laforest, L’adaptation dans les systèmes d’information sensibles au contexte d’utilisation: approche et modèles. Cinquièmes journées scientifiques des jeunes chercheurs en génie électrique et informatique (GEI 2005), du 25 au 27 Mars 2005, Sousse, Tunisie

Teaching

• Object Oriented Programming in JAVA [Sun's Java Tutorial]
  
• JAVA 2 Mobile Edition (J2ME) [j.n Tutorial]
  
• Java Web Programming [tutorial in french]
  
• eXtensible Markup Language (XML) [slides in french]
  
• Distributed Systems [slides in french]
  
• Unified Modeling Language (UML) [slides in french]
  
• Research survey on service oriented architectures [slides in french]
  

Research Projects

• USENET    [UseNet Website]
  
  UseNet is a European ITEA project, started in September 2007 for a period of 2 years. VTT (Finland), IKERLAN FAGOR (Spain), Alcatel (Belgium), Thales, BULL and LAAS-CNRS (France) are partners in this project. Its scientific goal is to define pervasive environments to improve the communication and intelligent cooperation between machines and between users. I participated as a postdoctoral fellow in this project by establishing a survey on machine-to-machine technologies and the guidelines of a self-adaptive Machine-to-Machine middleware.
• SECAS    [1]
  
  The SECAS project (Simple Environment for Context Aware Systems) focuses on adapting applications to their utilization context (the environment and the preferences of the user, the used device...). Under this project, our goal is to develop a platform that makes applications adaptable to different utilization contexts. This adaptation concerns three components: data, services and presentation. In this area, researchers have focused on capturing the context and on its dissemination to the application. This project focused on the impact on context on applications after its capturing and dissemination. This project was the central theme of my P.H.D. thesis work. A prototype has already been developed for the validation of the architecture and the adaptation strategy that I defined in my PHD thesis work.
• SITRANS    [12]
  
  The main objective of the SITRANS project is to provide a software platform for managing microarray experiments driven by researchers in biology. In the scope of this project, I participated in the specifications, design and development of the platform.
• SEFAGI    [10]
  
  The SEFAG project (Simple Environment For Adaptable Graphical Interfaces) was the main job of my Research Master's degree in 2003. This project focuses on adapting user interfaces to multi-terminal environments. Its purpose is twofold: (i) allow users to describe their GUIs and automatically generate their corresponding code and (ii) make the code generation adaptable to several kinds of devices. These graphical user interfaces must interact with several remote web services (math, updating a database, uploading images ...). In the scope of this project, I specified, designed and developed a complete platform that allows the automatic generation of JAVA user interfaces that can be used on smart phones Personal Digital Assistants and standard PCs starting from a simple XML description.
• SICOM    [13]
  
  SICOM is a research project funded by the Rhône-Alpes region that consists in establishing an efficient information system intended to create, exchange and share medical information between practitioners in order to improve patients health care. My contribution in this project was to automatically generate medical GUIs that are adaptable to many types of users (patients, specialists, nurses...) and several types of devices.

Miscellaneous

• IEEE Professional Member
  
• ACM Professional Member