Aix-Marseille University

Teaching Activities

  • In January 2012, Laure Berti-Équille has taught courses and practical work on Database Management systems at UCC, University of Cape Coast, in Ghana (50 hours) in the volunteering programme of AHED (Academics for Higher Education & Development).
  • In 2011, she has taught advanced courses at the University of Montpellier 2, France on Administration of Database Management Systems and database tuning.
  • From 1996 to 2007, she taught (lessons and practical work) at the Computer Science Departments of the several universities and engineering schools (Univ. of Toulon, Aix-Marseille Univ., Univ. of Avignon, and Univ. of Rennes 1, INSA Rennes, ENST Brest in France) for undergraduate and graduated students developing numerous pedagogical materials (between 210 and 300 hours per year of teaching duties as an Associate Professor) in the following topics:
    • Database Management Systems
    • Data Warehousing and Data Mining
    • XML Technologies (XML, Xpath, XSL, Xquery, XML native systems)
    • Object-Oriented Software Engineering (UML, OCL, design patterns)
    • Software Engineering Project Management

Visiting Students and Interns

  • César Guerra-García, Polytechnic Univ. San Luis Potosi, Mexico / Univ. Castilla-La Mancha, Spain (May 2011 - July 2011, European PhD Internship): A Framework for Designing Data Quality Aware Web Applications
  • Ravi Jain (February 2007 - September 2007, Post-Doc INRIA): Quality-Awareness for Data Clustering
  • Yongluan Zhou (October 2005 - March 2006, Internship INRIA): Quality-Driven Distributed Query Planning and Optimization Based on Data Quality Negotiation
  • Manuel Bès (September 2001 - June 2002, Internship): Comparative Study of Association Rule Discovery Algorithms for Genomic Data Mining
  • Anne Charlery (September 2002 - June 2003, Internship): Indexing Techniques for Genomic Data
  • Mehrez Chaikha-Douaihy (February 2005 - June 2005, Internship): Adapting and Optimizing Content-Based Image Retrieval
  • Wilfried Jouve (February 2005 - August 2005, Internship): Enriching Multimedia Content Description for Broadcast Environments: From a Unified Metadata Model to a New Generation of Authoring Tool Adapting and Optimizing Content-Based Image Retrieval

PhD Students

  • Anicet Kouomou-Choupo (December 2002 - February 2006): Improving Similarity Search in Very Large Image Database with Multimedia Mining Techniques
  • Jean-André Benvenuti (December 2002 - December 2008): Intelligent Parsing, Indexing and Querying of XML Pedagogical Materials for Military Staff Training