Sixth European Business Intelligence & Big Data Summer School (eBISS 2016)

Directors of the School

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  Patrick Marcel

  Université François Rabelais Tours, France

  Patrick Marcel received his PhD from INSA Lyon in 1998 and his French Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches from University of Tours in 2012. He is currently associate professor at the Computer Science Dept. of University of Tours (UFRT) and a member of the LI laboratory of UFRT. His research interests include OLAP, data mining, query personalisation and recommendation in databases. He is the author of numerous publications in international conferences and journals on these subjects, including DKE, KAIS, IJDWM, and DSS. He has served as PC member in conferences in the area, including DOLAP, DaWaK, Big Data Service, ER, VLDB, and chaired the national EDA conference on Data Warehouse and OLAP in 2007 and 2013. He is a member of the editorial board of Elsevier’s DSS journal.

  Email:   patrick.marcel@univ-tours.fr
  Web:   http://www.info.univ-tours.fr/~marcel/

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  Esteban Zimányi

  Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

  Esteban Zimányi is a professor and the director of the Department of Computer & Decision Engineering (CoDE) at ULB. He is also the academic director of the Computer Science program at the Faculty of Applied Sciences. He started his studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Centro América, Costa Rica. He received a B.Sc. (1988) and a doctorate (1992) in computer science from the Faculty of Sciences at the ULB. During 1997, he was a visiting researcher at the Database Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. His current research interests include data warehouses, spatio-temporal databases, geographic information systems, semantic web and web services.

  Email:   ezimanyi@ulb.ac.be
  Web:   http://cs.ulb.ac.be/members/esteban