Publications
Analysing User Profiles in Social Networks, Recommender Systems.

Coriane Nana Jipmo, Gianluca Quercini, Nacéra Bennacer. “FRISK: A Multilingual Approach to Find twitteR InterestS via wiKipedia”. Advanced Data Mining and Applications - 13th International Conference. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10604, Springer 2017. Bibtex

Gianluca Quercini, Nacéra Bennacer, Mohammad Ghufran, and Coriane Nana Jipmo. “LIAISON: reconciLIAtion of Individuals profiles across SOcial Networks”. In: Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Management Journal. Springer, Vol 6, pp 229-253, 2017. Bibtex

Nacéra Bennacer, Francesca Bugiotti, Moditha Hewasinghage, Suela Isaj, Gianluca Quercini. "Interpreting Reputation Through Frequent Named Entities in Twitter". In: Web Information System Engineering Conference (Wise). Springer, LNCS, vol. 10569, pp. 49-56, 2017. Ranking Core A Bibtex

Coriane Nana Jipmo, Gianluca Quercini, and Nacéra Bennacer. “Catégorisation et Désambiguïsation des Intérêts des Individus dans le Web Social”. In: 16ème Journées Francophones Extraction et Gestion, 2016. Bibtex

Mohammad Ghufran, Gianluca Quercini, and Nacéra Bennacer. “Location Determination in Online Social Network Profiles”. In: International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS). ACM SIGSPATIAL, pp 6:1-6:10 2015. Bibtex

Nacéra Bennacer, Coriane Nana Jipmo, Antonio Penta, and Gianluca Quercini. “Réconciliation des profils dans les réseaux sociaux”. In: Extraction et Gestion des Connaissances (EGC). In: Revue des Nouvelles Technologies de l’Information, E.26, pp. 65–76, 2014. Best applied article award. Bibtex

Nacéra Bennacer, Corianne Nana Jipmo, Antonio Penta, and Gianluca Quercini. “Matching User Profiles Across Social Networks”. In: Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSe). Vol. 8484. Springer, pp. 424–438, 2014. Ranking Core A. Bibtex.

Roza Lemdani, Géraldine Polaillon, Nacéra Bennacer, and Yolaine Bourda. “A semantic similarity measure for recommender systems”. In: 7th International Conference on Semantic Systems I-SEMANTICS. ACM, pp. 183–186, 2011. Bibtex

Roza Lemdani, Nacéra Bennacer, Géraldine Polaillon, and Yolaine Bourda. “A collaborative and semantic-based approach for recommender systems”. In: 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications ISDA. IEEE Computer Society, pp. 469–476, 2010. Bibtex


Semantic annotation, Knowledge Base Enrichment.

Nacéra Bennacer, Francesca Bugiotti, Jorge Galicia, Mariana Patricio, Gianluca Quercini. . “Elimination des liens inter-langues erronés dans Wikipédia". In: Extraction et Gestion des Connaissances (EGC). In: Revue des Nouvelles Technologies de l’Information, RNTI-E-34. , 2018. Bibtex

Mohammad Ghufran, Nacéra Bennacer, Gianluca Quercini. "Wikipedia-based extraction of key information from resumes". 11th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, RCIS, IEEE, pp 135-145, 2017. Bibtex

Nacéra Bennacer, Francesca Bugiotti, Jorge Galicia, Mariana Patricio, Gianluca Quercini. "Eliminating Incorrect Cross-Language Links in Wikipedia". In: Web Information System Engineering Conference (Wise). Springer, LNCS, vol. 10570, pp. 109-116, 2017. Ranking Core A Bibtex

Nacéra Bennacer, Mia Johnson Vioulès, Maximiliano Ariel López, and Gianluca Quercini . “A Multilingual Approach to Discover Cross-language Links in Wikipedia”. In: Web Information System Engineering Conference (Wise). Springer, LNCS, vol. 9418, pp. 539-553, 2015. Ranking Core A. Bibtex.

Yassine Mrabet, Nacéra Bennacer, and Nathalie Pernelle. “Enrichissement contrôlé d’une base de connaissances à partir de documents annotés”. In: Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle. Lavoisier, Vol. 28, 2-3, pp. 297–320, 2014. Bibtex

Yassine Mrabet, Nacéra Bennacer, and Nathalie Pernelle. “Controlled Knowledge Base Enrichment from Web Documents”. In: 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Vol. 7651, 312–325, 2012.Ranking Core A. Bibtex.

Yassine Mrabet, Nacéra Bennacer, and Nathalie Pernelle. “Enrichissement contrôlé de bases de connaissances à partir de documents semi-structurés annotés”. In: 23èmes Journées Francophones d’Ingénierie des Connaissances-IC, pp.17-32, 2012. Bibtex.

George Dubus, Mathieu Bruyen, and Nacéra Bennacer. “Supporting Information Retrieval in RSS”. In: 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST). INSTICC Press, pp. 307–312, 2010. Bibtex

Yassine Mrabet, Nacéra Bennacer, Nathalie Pernelle, and Mouhamadou Thiam. “Supporting Semantic Search on Heterogeneous Semi-structured Documents”. In: 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE). Lecture Notes inComputer Science, Vol. 6051, pp. 224–229, Springer, 2010. Ranking Core A. Bibtex.

Yassine Mrabet, Nacéra Bennacer, Nathalie Pernelle, and Mouhamadou Thiam. “Une approche pour la recherche sémantique de l’information dans les documents semi-structurés hétérogènes”. In: 7th COnférence en Recherche d’Infomations et Applications CORIA. Centre de Publication Universitaire, pp. 195–210, 2010. Bibtex.

Yassine Mrabet, Nathalie Pernelle, Nacéra Bennacer, and Mouhamadou Thiam. “Aggregative and Neighboring Approximations to Query Semi-Structured Documents”. In: Extraction et Gestion des Connaissances EGC. In : Revue des Nouvelles Technologies de l’Information. Cépaduès Éditions, Vol. RNTI-E-15, pp. 469–470, 2009. Bibtex

Mouhamadou Thiam, Nacéra Bennacer, Nathalie Pernelle, and Moussa Lo. “Incremental Ontology-Based Extraction and Alignment in Semi-structured Documents”. In: 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Vol. 5690, pp. 611–618, 2009. Ranking Core2008 A. Bibtex.

Mouhamadou Thiam, Nathalie Pernelle, and Nacéra Bennacer. “Contextual and Metadata-based Approach for the Semantic Annotation of Heterogeneous Documents”. In: First International Workshop on Semantic Metadata Management and Applications, the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC). Vol. 346, pp. 18–30, 2008. Bibtex

Mouhamadou Thiam, Nacéra Bennacer, and Nathalie Pernelle. “WebDocEnrich : enrichissement sémantique flexible de documents semi-structurés”. In: Conférence sur l’Extraction et la Gestion des Connaissances. Revue des Nouvelles Technologies de l’Information, Vol. RNTI-E-9, pp. 211–212, Cépaduès Éditions, 2007. Bibtex

Marie-Aude Aufaure, Bénédicte Le Grand, Michel Soto, and Nacéra Bennacer. “Metadata and Ontology-Based Semantic Web Mining”. In: Data Warehousing and Mining: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. IGI Global, Chap. 8.12, pp. 3531– 3556, 2006. pdf

Marie-Aude Aufaure, Bénédicte Le Grand, Michel Soto, and Nacéra Bennacer. “Metadata and Ontology-Based Semantic Web Mining”. In: Web Semantics Ontology. IDEA Group Publishing, Chap. 9, pp. 259–296, 2006. pdf


Reasoning on Semantics.

Nacéra Bennacer and Guy Vidal-Naquet. “A Multi-Level Framework for Validation of Ontology-Driven and Community-Based Web Services Composition”. In: International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering IJSSOE. Vol. 3. 1, pp. 58–72, 2012. Bibtex

Youssef Gamha, Nacéra Bennacer, Guy Vidal-Naquet, Béchir el Ayeb, and Lotfi Ben Romdhane. “A Framework for the Semantic Composition of Web Services Handling User Constraints”. In: IEEE International Conference on Web Services ICWS. IEEE Computer Society, 228–237, 2008. Ranking Core A. Bibtex.

Youssef Gamha, Nacéra Bennacer, Lotfi Ben Romdhane, Guy Vidal-Naquet, and Béchir el Ayeb. “A Statechart-Based Model for the Semantic Composition of Web Services”. In: IEEE International Conference on Services Computing Web SCC-SCW. IEEE Computer Society, pp. 49–56, 2007. Bibtex

Youssef Gamha, Nacéra Bennacer, Guy Vidal-Naquet, Lotfi Ben Romdhane, and Béchir el Ayeb. “Semantic Web Services Composition Framework”. In: International Conference Applied Computing. IADIS, pp. 689–693, 2007. pdf

Nacéra Bennacer. “Formalizing Mappings for OWL Spatiotemporal Ontologies”. In: International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer,Vol. 4080, 368–378, 2006. Ranking Core2008 A. Bibtex.

Anastasiya Sotnykova, Christelle Vangenot, Nadine Cullot, Nacéra Bennacer, and Marie-Aude Aufaure. “Semantic Mappings in Description Logics for Spatio-temporal Database Schema Integration”. In: Journal of Data Semantics III, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Vol. 3534, pp. 143–167, 2005. Bibtex

B.-L. Doan, Yolaine Bourda, and Nacéra Bennacer. “Building a Pedagogical Ontology to Improve Information Retrieval”. In: World Conference on Educational Multime- dia, Hypermedia and Telecommunication (ED-MEDIA). 2004, pp. 5193–5198. Bibtex

B.-L. Doan, Yolaine Bourda, and Nacéra Bennacer. “Using OWL to Describe Pedagogical Resources”. In: IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT. IEEE Computer Society, 916–917, 2004. Ranking Core2008 A. Bibtex

Nacéra Bennacer, Yolaine Bourda, and B.-L. Doan. “Formalizing for Querying Learning Objects Using OWL”. In: IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT. IEEE Computer Society, 321–325, 2004. Ranking Core2008 A . Bibtex

Nacéra Bennacer, Marie-Aude Aufaure, Nadine Cullot, Anastasiya Sotnykova, and Christelle Vangenot. “Representing and Reasoning for Spatiotemporal Ontology Integration”. In: On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems OTM. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3292, Springer, pp. 30–31, 2004. Bibtex


Information extraction from semi-structured documents: Building domain ontology.

Lobna Karoui, Nacéra Bennacer, and Marie-Aude Aufaure. “Extraction de concepts guidée par le contexte”. In: Revue des Nouvelles Technologies de l’Information Classification : points de vues croisés. Cépaduès Éditions, RNTI-C2 pp. 135–146, 2008. Bibtex

Lobna Karoui, Marie-Aude Aufaure, and Nacéra Bennacer. “Analyses and Fundamental ideas for a Relation Extraction Approach”. In: 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops, ICDE. IEEE Computer Society, pp. 880–887, 2007. Bibtex

Lobna Karoui, Marie-Aude Aufaure, and Nacéra Bennacer. “Contextual Concept Discovery Algorithm”. In: Twentieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference FLAIRS. AAAI Press, pp. 460–465, 2007. Bibtex

Lobna Karoui, Marie-Aude Aufaure, and Nacéra Bennacer. “Contextualization Vs Decontextualization : impact on the expert’s evaluation”. In: International MultiConference on Systems, Signals and Devices (SSD). IEEE Computer Society, pp. 277–283, 2007.

Lobna Karoui, Marie-Aude Aufaure, and Nacéra Bennacer. “A New Extraction Concept Based on Contextual Clustering”. In: International Conference on Computational Intelligence or Modelling Control and Automation CIMCA. IEEE Computer Society, pp. 91–96, 2006, Bibtex

Lobna Karoui, Marie-Aude Aufaure, and Nacéra Bennacer. “Extraction Contextuelle de Concepts Ontologiques pour le Web Sémantique”. In: 17èmes Journées Francophones Ingénierie des Connaissances-IC. Cépaduès Éditions, pp. 97–109, 2007. Bibtex

Lobna Karoui, Marie-Aude Aufaure, and Nacéra Bennacer. “Context-based Hierarchical Clustering for the Ontology Learning”. In: International Conference on Web Intelligence WI. IEEE Computer Society, pp. 420–427, 2006. Bibtex

Lobna Karoui, Nacéra Bennacer, and Marie-Aude Aufaure. “Contextual Ontological Concepts Extraction”. In: 10th International Conference on Discovery Science. Vol. 4265. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, pp. 306–310, 2006. Bibtex

Nacéra Bennacer and Lobna Karoui. “A framework for retrieving conceptual knowledge from Web pages”. In: Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives, Proceedings of the 2nd Semantic Web Workshop SWAP. Vol. 166. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, p. 8, 2005 Bibtex

Lobna Karoui, Nacéra Bennacer, and Marie-Aude Aufaure . “Extraction de concepts guidée par le contexte”. In: 13ème rencontres de la Société Francophone de Classification SFC, pp. 119–123, 2006.

Lobna Karoui and Nacéra Bennacer. “Processus d’extraction de connaissances à partir du Web”. In: 2èmes rencontres des Sciences et Technologies de l’Information ASTI. pp. 58–61, 2005.

Lobna Karoui, Marie-Aude Aufaure, and Nacéra Bennacer. “Ontology Discovery from Web Pages: Application to Tourism”. In: Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Ontologies, jointly with ECML/PKDD. pp. 115–120, 2004.


Publications related to PhD Thesis.

Nacéra Bennacer, Gérard Florin, Céline Fraize, and Stéphane Natkin. “Probabilistic Validation of a Remote Procedure Call Protocol”. In: Application and Theory of Petri Nets. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Vol. 815, pp. 59–78, 1994. Bibtex

Nacéra Bennacer, Gérard Florin, and Stéphane Natkin. “Probabilistic Validation using Worst Event Driven and Importance Sampling Simulation”. In: Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS). IEE Computer Science, 84–93, 1994. Ranking Core A . Bibtex.

Nacéra Bennacer, Stéphane Natkin. "Validation of an atomic broadcast protocol". Tutorial of 16h International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets. 1996.

Nacéra Bennacer, Gérard Florin, Stéphane Natkin. "Simulation Strategies of Stochastic Petri Net Models of Highly Dependable Systems". Euro XIII / Operational Research Designing Practical Solutions OR 36. Glasgow, 1994.

Nacéra Bennacer, Gérard Florin, Céline Fraize, Stéphane Natkin. "Validation par simulation guidée des systèmes sûrs de fonctionnement". MOAD Béjaïa Algérie, 1992.

Nacéra Bennacer "Simulation". Chapitre 10 Précis de recherche opérationnelle : Méthodes et exercices d’application, Robert Faure, Bernard Lemaire, Christophe Picouleau Sciences Sup, Dunod, 2009 5ème édition.