Rafik Bouaziz

Rafik Bouaziz, full professor on computer science, is currently the president of Sfax University, Tunisia. He was the director of the economy, management and computer science doctoral school, in the same university. His PhD has dealt with temporal data management and historical record of data in Information Systems. The subject of his accreditation to supervise research was “A contribution for the control of versioning of data and schema in advanced information systems”. Currently, his main research topics of interest are temporal databases, real-time databases, information systems engineering, ontologies, data warehousing and workflows. Between 1979 and 1985, he was a consulting Engineer in the organization and computer science and a head of the department of computer science at CEGOS-TUNISIA.

Publications

Temporal Blockchains for Intelligent Transportation Management and Autonomous Vehicle Support in the Internet of Vehicles
Temporal Blockchains for Intelligent Transportation Management and Autonomous Vehicle Support in the Internet of Vehicles
Zouhaier Brahmia, Fabio Grandi, Rafik Bouaziz. © 2023. 35 pages.
In the internet of vehicles (IoV) field, blockchain technology has been proposed for durable and trustworthy bookkeeping of the exchanged data. However, block timestamps assigned...
A Design Methodology for Modeling Flexible Business Processes
A Design Methodology for Modeling Flexible Business Processes
Imen Ben Said, Mohamed Amine Chaabane, Rafik Bouaziz. © 2022. 25 pages.
Business process flexibility is a major challenge since it is crucial to consider the current environment, which is becoming very fluctuating, and to adapt processes accordingly....
A Version and Context-Based Approach to Easily Model Flexible Collaborative Processes
A Version and Context-Based Approach to Easily Model Flexible Collaborative Processes
Fatma Ellouze, Mohamed Amine Chaabane, Eric Andonoff, Rafik Bouaziz. © 2021. 28 pages.
Process flexibility has been investigated for intra-organizational processes, but it is still an open issue for collaborative processes (CP), each of which is defined as a set of...
Applying Digital Forensics to Service Oriented Architecture
Applying Digital Forensics to Service Oriented Architecture
Aymen Akremi, Hassen Sallay, Mohsen Rouached, Rafik Bouaziz. © 2020. 26 pages.
Digital forensics is an emerging research field involving critical technologies for obtaining evidence in digital crime investigations. Several methodologies, tools, and...
Retrieval of Relevant Web Pages by a New Filtering Method
Retrieval of Relevant Web Pages by a New Filtering Method
Sahar Maâlej Dammak, Anis Jedidi, Rafik Bouaziz. © 2019. 26 pages.
With the great mass of the pages managed through the world, and especially with the advent of the web, it has become more difficult to find the relevant pages after an...
Schema Evolution in Conventional and Emerging Databases
Schema Evolution in Conventional and Emerging Databases
Zouhaier Brahmia, Fabio Grandi, Barbara Oliboni, Rafik Bouaziz. © 2019. 12 pages.
In information systems, changing the database schema is a common but often troublesome task in database administration that is needed for many reasons such as changes in user...
Schema Versioning in Conventional and Emerging Databases
Schema Versioning in Conventional and Emerging Databases
Zouhaier Brahmia, Fabio Grandi, Barbara Oliboni, Rafik Bouaziz. © 2019. 12 pages.
In information systems, not only do data change over time, but also database schemata evolve frequently as a response to evolving application requirements. In the literature...
A Disciplined Approach to Temporal Evolution and Versioning Support in JSON Data Stores
A Disciplined Approach to Temporal Evolution and Versioning Support in JSON Data Stores
Safa Brahmia, Zouhaier Brahmia, Fabio Grandi, Rafik Bouaziz. © 2019. 20 pages.
The JSON Schema language lacks explicit support for defining time-varying schemas of JSON documents. Moreover, existing JSON NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, CouchDB) do not...
Schema Evolution in Conventional and Emerging Databases
Schema Evolution in Conventional and Emerging Databases
Zouhaier Brahmia, Fabio Grandi, Barbara Oliboni, Rafik Bouaziz. © 2018. 11 pages.
In information systems, changing the database schema is a common but often troublesome task in database administration that is needed for many reasons such as changes in user...
Schema Versioning in Conventional and Emerging Databases
Schema Versioning in Conventional and Emerging Databases
Zouhaier Brahmia, Fabio Grandi, Barbara Oliboni, Rafik Bouaziz. © 2018. 10 pages.
In information systems, not only do data change over time, but also database schemata evolve frequently as a response to evolving application requirements. In the literature...
Supporting Structural Evolution of Data in Web-Based Systems via Schema Versioning in the tXSchema Framework
Supporting Structural Evolution of Data in Web-Based Systems via Schema Versioning in the tXSchema Framework
Zouhaier Brahmia, Fabio Grandi, Barbara Oliboni, Rafik Bouaziz. © 2018. 37 pages.
τXSchema is a framework for creating and validating temporal XML documents, while using a temporal schema that consists of three components: a conventional XML schema document...
Filtering Method for the Annotated and Non-Annotated Web Pages
Filtering Method for the Annotated and Non-Annotated Web Pages
Sahar Maâlej Dammak, Anis Jedidi, Rafik Bouaziz. © 2017. 22 pages.
With the great mass of the pages managed through the world, and especially with the advent of the Web, it has become more difficult to find the relevant pages after an...
Onto-VP2M: A New Approach to Model and Manage Collaborative Process Versions using Contexts and Ontologies
Onto-VP2M: A New Approach to Model and Manage Collaborative Process Versions using Contexts and Ontologies
Fatma Ellouze, Mohamed Amine Chaâbane, Eric Andonoff, Rafik Bouaziz. © 2017. 24 pages.
Collaborative process (CP) flexibility is an active research area in the field of business process management (BPM). It deals with both foreseen and unforeseen changes in the...
Schema Evolution
Schema Evolution
Zouhaier Brahmia, Fabio Grandi, Barbara Oliboni, Rafik Bouaziz. © 2015. 10 pages.
Schema Versioning
Schema Versioning
Zouhaier Brahmia, Fabio Grandi, Barbara Oliboni, Rafik Bouaziz. © 2015. 11 pages.
Schema Change Operations for Full Support of Schema Versioning in the τXSchema Framework
Schema Change Operations for Full Support of Schema Versioning in the τXSchema Framework
Zouhaier Brahmia, Fabio Grandi, Barbara Oliboni, Rafik Bouaziz. © 2014. 27 pages.
tXSchema (Currim et al., 2004) is a framework (a language and a suite of tools) for the creation and validation of time-varying XML documents. A tXSchema schema is composed of a...
Fuzzy Ontologies Building Platform for Semantic Web: FOB Platform
Fuzzy Ontologies Building Platform for Semantic Web: FOB Platform
Hanêne Ghorbel, Afef Bahri, Rafik Bouaziz. © 2012. 22 pages.
The unstructured design of Web resources favors human comprehension, but makes difficult the automatic exploitation of the contents of these resources by machines. So, the...
From Temporal Databases to Ontology Versioning: An Approach for Ontology Evolution
From Temporal Databases to Ontology Versioning: An Approach for Ontology Evolution
Najla Sassi, Zouhaier Brahmia, Wassim Jaziri, Rafik Bouaziz. © 2010. 22 pages.
The problem of versioning is present in several application areas, such as temporal databases, real-time computing and ontologies. This problem is generally defined as managing...