Innovations in E-Systems for Business and Commerce

Seifedine Kadry, PhD, is currently Associate Professor at Beirut Arab University, Faculty of Sciences, Beirut, Lebanon. He was previously an Associate Professor with American University of the Middle East in Kuwait. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Research Journal of Mathematics and Statistics and the ARPN Journal of Systems and Software. He worked as Head of Software Support and Analysis Unit of First National Bank where he designed and implemented the data warehouse and business intelligence; he has published several books and is the author of more than 50 papers on applied math, computer science, and stochastic systems in peer-reviewed journals. At present his research focuses on system prognostics, stochastic systems, and probability and reliability analysis. He received a PhD in computational and applied mathematics in 2007 from the Blaise Pascal University (Clermont-II) - Clermont-Ferrand in France. Abdelkhalak El Hami, PhD, is a Full Professor at INSA (National Institute of Applied Sciences) of Rouen, France, as well as Deputy Director of Laboratoire d'Optimisation et FIabilité en Mécanique des Structures (LOFIMS laboratory and Head of mechanical chair of the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts in Normandy, France. He has been training director of mechanical engineers at INSA-Rouen. Professor El Hami's research activities include reliability-optimization systems. He has supervised 32 PhD theses. He also is the author and co-author of more than a dozen books and more than 500 papers published in international journals and conferences. He has a doctorate in engineering sciences from the University of Franche-Comté in France (1992). He received his Habilitation diploma to supervise research (HDR) in 2000.