Prof. Pascal Francq

General Information

Function	Scientific Collaborator
E-mail :	pfrancqulb.ac.be
Phone :	+32 2 650 47 65
Fax :	+32 2 650 24 82
	External website

Teaching

Degrees

1996: Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Engineer in electric and mechanics (M.Sc. Equivalent).
Specialisation: Electronic and telecommunication.
Master Thesis: "Etude de la faisabilité de l'application des algorithmes génétiques aux problèmes d'allocation d'espaces dans un système de gestion d'actifs mobiliers et immobiliers".
2001: Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), DEA.
Work of specialization : "Conception et développement d'une méthode assitée par ordinateur pour le placement de composants de circuits intégrés" (English text)
2003: Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), PhD Thesis.
Thesis : "Structured and Collaborative Search: An integrated approach to share documents among users"

Research interests

Professional interest:

Information Retrieval
Collaborative Search
Documents Management
Computer Science Theory
Operating System
Software Design

Past projects

VLSI - Design and development of a computer-aided method for the placement of components on integrated circuits

ESCRIM - Expert Solutions for Collaborative Research and Information Management

GALILEI - Generic Analyser and Listener for Indexed and Linguistics Entities of Information

R - R Open Source Library - PROMETHEE, GGA, MO-GGA, HGA, 2D-GA

HyperPRISME - Server-Browser pilot for intelligent navigation in a hypertext-structured information system

PhD thesis supervision

Genetic Algorithm Applied to Generalized Cell Formation Problems (Advisor of Emmanuelle Vin, 2010)

Publications •

A Generalized Cell Formation Problem Solved by an Adapted GGA • in Proceedings •

[vin10] - Emmanuelle Vin, Pascal Francq and Alain Delchambre

in MOSIM2010 (2010)

An adapted Genetic Algorithm to solve Generalized Cell Formation • in Proceedings •

[vin09a] - Emmanuelle Vin, Pascal Francq and Alain Delchambre

in 13th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing, Elsevier (2009)

A Double Grouping Proble in Generalized Cell Formation Solved Simultaneously by an Adapted Grouping Genetic Algorithm (SIGGA) • in Proceedings •

[vin09] - Emmanuelle Vin, Pascal Francq and Alain Delchambre; edited by Prof Mitsua Gen and Prof. Gursel A. Suer

in International Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing & Logistic Systems IML2009 and Symposium on Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing GT/CM2009 (2009)

Index and Search XML Documents by Combining Content and Structure • Proceedings •

[abbaci06] - Faiza Abbaci-Gaultier, Jean-Baptiste Valsamis and Pascal Francq

organized by Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet Computing

(2006)

A Grouping Genetic Algorithm (SIMOGGAs) simultaneously to solve two grouping problems applied to the cell formation problem with alternative process plans. • in Proceedings •

[vin06] - Emmanuelle Vin, Pascal Francq and Alain Delchambre

in Group Technology/Cellular Manufacturing (GTCM 2006) (2006)

Query Generation for Personalized Tracking of Information • in Proceedings •

[Gaultier05a] - Faiza Abbaci-Gaultier, Pascal Francq and Alain Delchambre; edited by Hamid R. Arabnia and Rose Joshua

in Proceedings of the 2005 Internation Conference on Internet Computing, , CSREA Press, pp. 348-353 (2005)

Using documents assessments to build communities of interests • in Proceedings •

[Francq05] - Pascal Francq and Alain Delchambre; edited by Wojciech Cellary and Hiroshi Esaki

in 2005 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet - organized by IEEE, Trento, Italy, pp. 327-333 (2005)

Sixième Rapport d'Avancement GALILEI • Technical report •

[galilei6] - Pascal Francq, David Wartel, Valery Vandaele and Alain Delchambre

Université Libre de Bruxelles (2004)

Cinquième Rapport d'Avancement GALILEI • Technical report •

[galilei5] - Pascal Francq, David Wartel, Valery Vandaele, Nicolas Kumps and Alain Delchambre

Université Libre de Bruxelles (2004)

KGALILEI How-To • Technical report •

[vandaele04b] - Valery Vandaele, Pascal Francq, David Wartel and Nicolas Kumps

ULB (2004)

KGALILEICENTER How-To • Technical report •

[vandaele04c] - Valery Vandaele, David Wartel, Nicolas Kumps and Pascal Francq

ULB (2004)

Analyse d'hyperliens en vue d'une meilleure description des profils • in Proceedings •

[vandaele04a] - Valery Vandaele, Pascal Francq and Alain Delchambre

in Proceedings of JADT 2004, pp. 1117 (2004)

Création d'un espace conceptuel par analyse de données contextuelles • in Proceedings •

[Kumps04] - Nicolas Kumps, Pascal Francq and Alain Delchambre

in Proceedings of JADT 2004 (2004)

Organisation d'une masse documentaire électronique présentée à des lecteurs potentiels • in Proceedings •

[Wartel04] - David Wartel, Pascal Francq and Alain Delchambre

in Proceedings of JADT 2004 (2004)

Troisieme Rapport d'Avancement GALILEI • Technical report •

[galilei3] - Pascal Francq, David Wartel, Nicolas Kumps, Valery Vandaele and Alain Delchambre

Université Libre de Bruxelles (2003)

Quatrième Rapport d'Avancement GALILEI • Technical report •

[galilei4] - Pascal Francq, David Wartel, Nicolas Kumps, Valery Vandaele, Stéphane Rideau and Alain Delchambre

Université Libre de Bruxelles (2003)

Structured and Collaborative Search: An integrated approach to share documents among users • PhD thesis •

[Francq03a] - Pascal Francq

Université Libre de Bruxelles (2003)

A distributed architecture allowing to share documents among users • Technical report •

[Francq03b] - Pascal Francq

Université Libre de Bruxelles (2003)

A structuctured and collaborative method to share documents among users • Technical report •

[Francq03c] - Pascal Francq and Marco Saerens

Université libre de Bruxelles (2003)

Deuxieme Rapport d'Avancement GALILEI • Technical report •

[galilei2] - Pascal Francq, David Wartel, Julien Lamoral, Marjorie Paternostre and Alain Delchambre

Université Libre de Bruxelles (2002)

Premier Rapport d'Avancement GALILEI • Technical report •

[galilei1] - Pascal Francq, David Wartel, Julien Lamoral, Marjorie Paternostre and Alain Delchambre

Université Libre de Bruxelles (2002)

Carry, un algorithme de désuffixation pour le français • Technical report •

[Paternotre02] - Marjorie Paternostre, Pascal Francq, Julien Lamoral, David Wartel and Marco Saerens

(2002)

Conception et développement d'une méthode assistée par ordinateur pour le placement de composants de circuits intégrés • Master's thesis •

[Francq01b] - Pascal Francq

Université Libre de Bruxelles (2001)

Internet et ses technologies, 2nd edition • Book •

[Francq01a] - Pascal Francq, Thomas L'Eglise, Benoit Lagrange and Laurent Auquière

CAD/CAM Department (2001)

Other informations

Past activities:

July 1996 - July 1997: Project Manager CIFM (Computer Integrated Facility Management).
July 1997 - March 1998: CIFM Research and Development Responsible.