Faïez Gargouri is a Professor of computer sciences at the Institut Supérieur d’Informatique et de Multimédia de Sfax, Tunisia (www.isimsf.rnu.tn),
where he is the Head (since August 2014). He was the Director of the
Multimedia, Information Systems and Advanced Computing Laboratory
(www.miracl.rnu.tn) from 2011 to 2014. From 2007 to 2011 he was the
Head of the same institute. Faïez Gargouri obtained his Master’s degree in Computer Science from Paris 6 University (1990) and a Ph.D. from the Paris 5 University (1995). In 2002, he obtained a Habilitation Universitaire en Informatique from the Faculté des Sciences de Tunis (Tunisia). His research interest focuses on different information systems fields, such as Design, Quality Measurement, Verification, Data Warehousing, Multimedia, Knowledge Management, Ontology. He published more than 100 papers in journals and conferences as well as books (pedagogical and conference proceedings). He is a member of the Scientific and Steering committees of various international conferences. He is named one of the founding fathers of the JFO conference (French Workshops on Ontologies) and ASD (workshop on decisional systems). Faiez Gargouri is the founding chairman of the scientific association AIG (Association of computer management).