Pascal Francq

Pascal Francq earned his Master’s degree in applied science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in 1996 and his PhD in 2003. From 2003 until 2008, he held the chair in information systems and in digital information at the ULB. He decide to quit due to the lack of time and resources for its research activities, and join a research project at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL). His main research topic is the Internet: its technologies, its social aspects and its support as a knowledge sharing platform. Since 1998, he has been working on automatic communities detection. He is the main contributor of the open source platform GALILEI and is currently involved in research on XML document clustering and semi-automatic thesaurus building. He founded in 2009 the Paul Otlet Institute, an independent research center in information science.

Publications

Collaborative Search and Communities of Interest: Trends in Knowledge Sharing and Assessment
Collaborative Search and Communities of Interest: Trends in Knowledge Sharing and Assessment
Pascal Francq. © 2011. 312 pages.
Since the dawn of the 21st Century the invention of Web 2.0 has enabled people from all backgrounds to contribute content on the Internet. In doing so, the Internet has become...
Internet, Collaborative Search, and Communities of Interests
Internet, Collaborative Search, and Communities of Interests
Pascal Francq. © 2011. 9 pages.
A Semi-Supervised Algorithm to Manage Communities of Interests
A Semi-Supervised Algorithm to Manage Communities of Interests
Pascal Francq. © 2011. 36 pages.
This chapter presents a genetic algorithm, called the Similarity-based Clustering Genetic Algorithm (SCGA), used to group users‘ profiles. This algorithm is integrated in an...
E-Democracy: The Social Software Perspective
E-Democracy: The Social Software Perspective
Pascal Francq. © 2009. 13 pages.
The success of the Internet has launched McLuhan’s idea of the global village. Over the years, the Internet has become a real political medium which has inspired the emergence of...
E-Democracy: The Social Software Perspective
E-Democracy: The Social Software Perspective
Pascal Francq. © 2009. 13 pages.
The success of the Internet has launched McLuhan’s idea of the global village. Over the years, the Internet has become a real political medium which has inspired the emergence of...
The GALILEI Platform: Social Browsing to Build Communities of Interests and Share Relevant Information and Expertise
The GALILEI Platform: Social Browsing to Build Communities of Interests and Share Relevant Information and Expertise
Pascal Francq. © 2007. 24 pages.
For a few years, social software has appeared on the Internet to challenge the problem of handling the mass of information available. In this chapter, we present the GALILEI...