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ResearchGate

CESI – Toulouse site
16 Rue Magellan
31670 Labège

Research team

Engineering and Numerical Tools

Research themes

Artificial intelligence, Collaborative robotics, Human-machine interaction, Multi-agent systems

Educational activities

  • Specialties : Computer Sciences, Electronics, training through research.
  • Pedagogy : Lectures, tutorials, project-based
  • Levels : Engineering program
  • Teaching responsibilities :

Background

  • PhD in Computer Sciences
    Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, 2013
    Reactive approach for convoy driving of autonomous vehicles: Modeling and verification
  • Master’s degree in Computer Sciences and telecommunication
    Université Paul Sabatier, 2010

Skills

Thesis supervision

Abdessalem ACHOUR, “Cartographie sémantique en temps réel via la fusion de données issues des perceptions individuelles d’un essaim de robots mobiles dans un contexte industriel”, Allocation Etablissement, sous la direction de Y. DUPUIS, CESI, co encadrantes M. EL ZAHER, CESI et H. Al ASSAAD, CESI, inscription à HESAM Université, ED de rattachement ED SMI 432, soutenance prévue Décembre 2024.

Badra Souhila GUENDOUZI, “A Robust, Smart, and Sound Decentralized Decision Support System for Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems”, sous la direction de S. OUCHANI, CESI et co encadrantes M. EL ZAHER, CESI  et H. AL ASSAAD, CESI, inscription à HESAM Université, ED de rattachement ED SMI 432, soutenance prévue Juillet 2025.

Publications

  • ACL : 5
  • C- ACTI : 9
  • C-ACTN : 1

Selected publications

[1] Achour, Abdessalem, Hiba Al-Assaad, Yohan Dupuis, and Madeleine El Zaher. “Collaborative mobile robotics for semantic mapping: A survey.” Applied Sciences 12, no. 20 (2022): 10316.

[2] Guendouzi, Badra Souhila, Samir Ouchani, Hiba EL Assaad, and Madeleine EL Zaher. “A systematic review of federated learning: Challenges, aggregation methods, and development tools.” Journal of Network and Computer Applications (2023): 103714.

[3] Achour, Abdessalem, Hiba Al Assaad, Yohan Dupuis, and Madeleine El Zaher. “Improving Semantic Mapping with Prior Object Dimensions Extracted from 3D Models.” In ROBOVIS 2024. 2024.

[4] Guendouzi, Badra Souhila, Samir Ouchani, Hiba EL Assaad, and Madeleine EL Zaher. “FedGA-Meta: Federated Learning Framework using Genetic Algorithms and Meta-Learning for Aggregation in Industrial Cyber- Physical Systems,” 2023 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR), Venice, Italy, 2023, pp. 630-635, doi: 10.1109/CSR57506.2023.10224975.

[5] Madeleine El-Zaher, Franck Gechter, Mohammad Hajjar, Pablo Gruer, “An interaction model for a local approach to vehicle platoons”. International Journal of vehicle autonomous system. 2015.

[6] Madeleine El-Zaher, Jean-Michel Contet, Pablo Gruer, Franck Gechter, and Abderrafiaa Koukam. « Compositional verification for reactive multi-agent systems applied to platoon non collision verification”. Stud. Inform. Univ., 10(3):119–141, 2012.

[7] Madeleine El-Zaher, Baudouin Dafflon, Franck Gechter, and JeanMichel Contet, « Vehicle platoon control with multi-configuration ability”. Procedia CS, 9:1503–1512, 2012.

[9] David Trimoulet, Madeleine El-Zaher, Celine Viazzi, M’hammed Sahnoun, David Baudry. “Multi Robot Path Planning Approach for Dynamic Environnement”. 15th International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR 2017).

[10] Madeleine El-Zaher and Baudouin Dafflon, “An Agile development for platoon system based on Verification and Validation”. 10th International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications (SKIMA 2016).

[11] Madeleine El-Zaher, Baudouin Dafflon and Franck Gechter “A cyber-Physical model for platoon system”. 9 th International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications (SKIMA 2015).

[12] Madeleine El-Zaher, Jean-Michel Contet, Franck Gechter, and Abderrafiaa Koukam. « Echelon platoon organisation: A distributed approach based on 2-spring virtual links.” In International conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Sytems, applications (AIMSA), pages 246–255, 2012.

[13] Madeleine El-Zaher, Franck Gechter, Pablo Gruer, and Mohammad Hajjar. “A new linear platoon model based on reactive multi-agent systems”. In International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), pages 898–899, 2011.