Publications

Here is my contribution to research with publications made between 2004 and 2016. For older papers from 1994 to 2003, please follow this link. You can access to papers and publisher web sites by clicking on x and =>.

Accreditation to supervise research (HDR in French):

• N. Conruyt, “Gestion des signes. De la représentation des connaissances à leur signification pour les e-services“, Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, spécialité Informatique, 25 Octobre, Université de La Réunion, France, 2013. x =>

Book chapters:

• N. Conruyt, V. Sébastien, O. Sebastien, D. Sébastien, D. Grosser, From Knowledge management to Sign management: a Co-design methodology for Biodiversity and Music enhancement, Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Management, E. Mercier-Laurent and D. Boulanger (Eds.): AI4KM 2015, IFIP AICT 497, pp. 80-105, Springer, 2016. x =>

• N. Conruyt, V. Sébastien, O. Sebastien, D. Sébastien, D. Grosser, Sign management for the future of e-education: examples of collaborative e-services in a Living Lab, Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Management, E. Mercier-Laurent et al (Eds.): AI4KM 2014, IFIP AICT 469, pp. 1-20, Springer, 2015. x =>

• N. Conruyt, V. Sébastien, O. Sebastien, D. Grosser, D. Sébastien, From Knowledge transmission to Sign sharing: Semiotic Web as a new paradigm for Teaching and Learning in the Future Internet, Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Management, E. Mercier-Laurent and D. Boulanger (Eds.), Book of improved papers of AI4KM'2012, International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), IFIP AICT 422, pp. 170-188, Springer, 2014. =>

• N. Conruyt, D. Sebastien, R. Vignes-Lebbe, S. Cosadia, Touraivane, Moving from Biodiversity Information Systems to Biodiversity Information Services, Information and Communication Technologies for Biodiversity and Agriculture, Ed by : L. Maurer and K. Tochtermann, ISBN: 978-3-8322-8459-6, Shaker Verlag, Aachen, 2010. x =>

• N. Conruyt, D. Sebastien, R. Courdier, D. David, N. Sebastien, T. Ralambondrainy, Designing an Information System for the preservation of Insular Tropical Environment in Reunion Island. Integration of Databases, Knowledge Bases and Multi-Agent Systems by using Web Services, Agent Technology Applied to Environmental Issues, Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing, Cortés, Ulises; Poch, Manel (Eds.), Birkhäuser, ISBN: 978-3-7643-8897-3, 2009. x =>

• N. Conruyt, D. Grosser, Knowledge management in environmental sciences with IKBS : application to Systematics of Corals of the Mascarene Archipelago, Selected Contributions in Data Analysis and Classification, Series: Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization, Brito, P.; Bertrand, P.; Cucumel, G.; De Carvalho, F. (Eds.), pp. 333-344, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-540-73558-8, 2007. x =>

• N. Conruyt, O. Sebastien, P. Conruyt, Une approche pour la définition de e-services à partir d'un plateau de créativité. Application à la valorisation de la recherche et à la e-formation, Innovative Learning and Knowledge Communities, Les communautés virtuelles : apprendre, innover et travailler ensemble, Ed by : A. Senteni et A. Taurisson, pp. 53-77, ISBN: 99903-73-19-1, Cathay Printing Ltd (Eds), 2005. x

Position papers:

• N. Conruyt, "UR.LL.TL : un exemple de Living Lab pour développer l'é-co-innovation à La Réunion", dossier "IA, Créativité et Innovation", bulletin de l'AFIA, Association Française pour l'Intelligence Artificielle, n° 78, pp. 14-22, octobre, 2012. x =>

• N. Conruyt, “The Reunion Living Lab model: towards Sign Management on a Creativity Platform“, 1st European Living Labs Summer School, Collaborative Innovation through Living Labs, August 25-27, Paris, France, 2010. x => v

Invited speaker in conferences and workshop organizer:

• N. Conruyt, O. Sebastien, D.Sebastien, S. Caldéroni, “How to Define E-Services From a Co-Design Platform in the New Web Philosophy: Application To Enhancement of Insular Tropical Environment and to Instrumental E-Learning“, Keynote presentation, 3rd International Conference on Open and Online Learning, ICOOL’2007, June 11-14, Penang, Malaysia, 2007.

• N. Conruyt, O. Sebastien, D.Hoarau, P. Sida, “Instrumental e-learning : master class session“, workshop of the 3rd International Conference on Open and Online Learning, ICOOL’2007, June 11, Penang, Malaysia, 2007.

Papers in journals found in databases with an international editorial advisory board:

• M. I. Santally, D. Cooshna-Naik, N. Conruyt, C. Koa-Wing, "A Social Partnership Model to promote Educators' Development in Mauritius through Formal and Informal Capacity-building Initiatives", Journal of Learning for Development, 2(1), ISSN 2311-1150, 02/2015. =>

• A. Hardisty, D. Roberts, W. Addink, B. Aelterman, D. Agosti, L. Amaral-Zettler, A. H Ariño, C. Arvanitidis, T. Backeljau, N. Bailly, L. Belbin, W. Berendsohn, N. Bertrand, N. Caithness, D. Campbell, G. Cochrane, N. Conruyt, A. Culham, C. Damgaard, N. Davies, B. Fady, S. Faulwetter, A. Feest, D. Field, E. Garnier, G. Geser, J. Gilbert, Grosche, D. Grosser, B. Herbinet, D. Hobern, A. Jones, Y. de Jong, D. King, S. Knapp, H. Koivula, W. Los, C. Meyer, R. a Morris, N. Morrison, D. Morse, M. Obst, E. Pafilis, L. M Page, R. Page, T. Pape, C. Parr, A. Paton, D. Patterson, E. Paymal, L. Penev, M. Pollet, R. Pyle, E. von Raab-Straube, V. Robert, T. Robertson, O. Rovellotti, H. Saarenmaa, P. Schalk, J. Schaminee, P. Schofield, A. Sier, S. Sierra, V. Smith, E. van Spronsen, S. Thornton-Wood, P. van Tienderen, J. van Tol, É. Ó Tuama, P. Uetz, L. Vaas, R. Vignes Lebbe, T. Vision, D. Vu, A. De Wever, R. White, K. Willis, F. Young, “A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities”, BMC Ecology; 13:16. DOI:10.1186/1472-6785-13-16, 01/2013. =>

• V. Sébastien, D. Sébastien, N. Conruyt, "Constituting a Musical Sign Base through Score Analysis and Annotation", International Journal On Advances in Networks and Services, N° 3&4, pp. 386-398, 2011. =>

• D. Grosser, N. Conruyt, H. Ralambondrainy,,"Classification par voisinages successifs sur des descriptions morphologiques complexes", Fouille de données complexes, Complexité liée aux données multiples, FDC 2011, Revue des Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information, vol. RNTI-E-21, pp. 81-100, 2011. =>

• D. Sébastien, N. Conruyt, R. Courdier, N. Sébastien and T. Tanzi, "Biodiversity Information Systems evolution: The MABIS model to gather several communities on an adaptable environment", International Journal On Advances in Systems and Measurements, IARIA journal publication, Vol. 2 no 4, ISSN: 1942-261x, pp. 269-282, 2009. =>

• O. Sébastien, N. Conruyt, D. Grosser, "Defining e-services using a co-design platform: Example in the domain of instrumental e-learning", Journal of Interactive Technology and Smart Education, Vol. 5, issue 3, pp. 144-156, ISSN 1741-5659, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2008. =>

• D. Sebastien, O. Sebastien, N. Conruyt, “e-Campus: a MMORPG providing e-Services to campus users", Int. Journal of Intelligent Games & Simulation, IJIGS, Ed. by: Q. H. Mehdi, Stephane Natkin and Ian Marshall, pp 16-21, ISSN 1477-2043, web-based publication of the University of Wolverhampton UK in association with The Society for Modelling and Simulation – Europe, 2008. =>

• N. Conruyt, O. Sébastien, D. Grosser, “Methodologie de définition de e-services pour la gestion de connaissances à partir d’un plateau de créativité : application au e-learning instrumental”, 8ème conférence francophone sur l’ Extraction et la Gestion des Connaissances, EGC’2008, volume 1, pp. 217-218, RNTI-E-11, ISBN : 978.2.85428.818.6, Cépaduès-éditions, 2008. =>

Papers in proceedings of international and national conferences:

• N. Conruyt, "SIOOCs, an example of e-service using a Living Lab to develop e-co-innovation in Reunion island", 15ème colloque  international de l'Association pour la Gestion des Connaissances dans la Société et les Organisations (AGECSO 2022), juin 2022. x =>

• D. Sébastien, O. Sébastien, N. Conruyt, "Providing services through online immersive real-time mirror-worlds. The Immex Program for delivering services in another way at university", 20th Virtual Reality International Conference (VRIC 2018), ACMSIGGRAPH, avril 2018. =>

• M. Santally, D. Cooshna-Naik, N. Conruyt, "A model for the transformation of the Mauritian classroom based on the Living Lab concept", IST-Africa conference proceedings, IEEE, May 7-9, Le Meridien, Mauritius, 2014. =>

• V. Sébastien, D. Sébastien, N. Conruyt, "Annotating works for music education: propositions for a musical forms and structures ontology and a musical performance ontology", 14th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2013, November 4-8, Curitiba, Brazil, 2013. =>

• D. Sébastien, O. Sébastien, N. Conruyt, M. H. Rakotobe, "Evaluation of Information in Biodiversity Information Systems: a Model to Capitalize on Experts and Amateurs", Ocean & Coastal Observation: Sensors and observing systems, numerical models & information, OCOSS'2013, pp. 147-154, October 28-30, Nice, France, 2013. =>

• N. Conruyt, V. Sébastien, D. Sébastien, O. Sébastien, D. Grosser, "Semiotic Web and Sign management as new paradigms for Living Labs in Education: Applications in natural and cultural heritage of insular tropical islands", Proceedings of the 4th ENoLL Living Lab Summer School, August 27-30, Manchester, UK, ISBN 9789082102703, 2013. =>

• N. Conruyt, "E-co-innovation for making e-services: Living Labs as a human-centered digital ecosystem for education with ICT", 7th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, DEST 2013, July 24-26, Menlo Park, California, USA, 2013. =>

• V. Sébastien, H. Ralambondrainy, O. Sébastien, N. Conruyt, "Score Analyzer: Automatically Determining Scores Difficulty Level for Instrumental e-Learning", 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2012, October 8-12, Porto, Portugal, 2012. (Best Student Paper Award)

• V. Sébastien, N. Conruyt, O. Sébastien, "Score Analyzer: Extracting Performance Information for Instrumental e-Learning", 15th International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning, ICL 2012, IEEE, September 26-28, Villach, Austria, 2012.

• N. Conruyt, D. Grosser, R. Vignes-Lebbe, "Knowledge Discovery for Biodiversity: from Data Mining to Sign Management.", In International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs), edited by R. Seppelt, A. A. Voinov, S. Lange and D. Bankamp,  International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software - Managing Resources of a Limited Planet, Sixth Biennial Meeting. Leipzig, Germany, 2012.  =>

• V. Sébastien, P. Sébastien, N. Conruyt, "@-MUSE : Sharing Musical Know-how Through Mobile Devices Interfaces", 5th Conference on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East, Dubaï, UAE, 2012. x =>

• D. Sébastien, N. Conruyt, M. H. Rakotobe, "The Neuron-based Architecture for Making Smart Campuses as Pedagogical Immersive Environments", 5th Conference on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East, Dubaï, UAE, 2012. x =>

• V. Sébastien, N. Conruyt, O. Sébastien, "Dynamic Music Lessons on a Collaborative Score Annotation Platform", Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services , ICIW 2011, March 20-25, St. Maarten, 2011. =>

• N. Conruyt, V. Sébastien, O. Sébastien, "Transmitting and Sharing Know-How through Sign Management : an Application to Semiotic Annotation of Music Pieces", Proceedings of the 4th Conference on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East, eLEx Annual Congress 2011, January 31th - 3rd February, Dubaï, UAE, 2011.

• D. Grosser, N. Conruyt, and H. Ralambondrainy, "Identification with iterative nearest neighbors using domain knowledge", Proceedings of the International Congress on Tools for Identifying Biodiversity, Progress and problems, BioIdentify 2010, Pier Luigi and Régine Vignes Lebbe (eds.), Paris, September 20-22, 2010. =>

• N. Conruyt, O. Sébastien, V. Sébastien, "Living Lab in practice: the case of Reunion Creativity Platform for Instrumental e-Learning", Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning, ICL 2010, September 15-17, Hasselt, Belgium, 2010. =>

• V. Sébastien, D. Sébastien, and N. Conruyt, "An Ontology for Musical Performances Analysis. Application to a collaborative platform dedicated to instrumental practice", Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, ICIW 2010, May 9-15, Barcelona, 2010. =>

• N. Conruyt, O. Sébastien, V. Sébastien, D. Sébastien, D. Grosser, S. Calderoni, D. Hoarau, P. Sida, "From Knowledge to Sign Management on a Creativity Platform, Application to Instrumental E-learning", 4th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, DEST 2010, April 13-16, Dubaï, UAE, 2010. =>

• V. Sébastien, D. Sébastien, and N. Conruyt, "A collaborative platform model for digital scores annotation", Proceedings of the 3rd Conference  on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East, eLEx Annual Congress 2010, February 1-3, Dubaï, UAE, 2010.

• O. Sébastien and N. Conruyt, "Multimedia-based approach for skills management: a case study for music learning", Proceedings of the 3rd Conference  on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East, eLEx Annual Congress 2010, February 1-3, Dubaï, UAE, 2010.

• D. Sébastien, R. Courdier, N. Conruyt,  N. Sebastien and T. Tanzi, "Specimen's behavior management: A masterpiece for Biodiversity Information System's representation", Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering, ITEE 2009, May 28-29, 2009, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2009.

• D. Sébastien, N. Conruyt, R. Courdier and T. Tanzi, "Generating Virtual Worlds from Biodiversity Information Systems: requirements, general process and typology of the metaverse's models", Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, ICIW 2009, May 24-28, 2009, Venice/Mestre, Italy, 2009.

• O. Sébastien, N. Conruyt, “Developing an User-Centred Project Involving the Web 2.0 Community: a Case Study Based on Video Sharing Websites“, Proceedings of I-media’2008, TRIPLE-I conference series, Graz, Austria, 2008.

• N. Conruyt, D. Sébastien, D. Payet, Y. Geynet, D. Caron, and D. Grosser, “Managing Insular Tropical Environment through Data and Knowledge Bases by using Web Services: a case study on Corals and Herbarium of La Réunion Island“, 4th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, iEMSs’2008, Integrating Sciences and Information Technology for Environmental Assessment and Decision Making, M. Sànchez-Marrè, J. Béjar, J. Comas, A. Rizzoli and G. Guariso (Eds.), International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs), Barcelone, 2008.

• D. Sébastien, N. Conruyt, "Online multimedia database for communities of practice in Biology: a real use challenge", Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, ICIW’2008, Athens, Greece, 2008.

• N. Conruyt, O. Sébastien, D. Grosser, “Methodology for defining e-services for knowledge management using a Co-Design Platform : example in the domain of instrumental e-learning”, Common Innovation in e-learning, Machine Learning and Humanoid, 6th International Conferences on Human System Learning, ICHSL.6, Edited by: Saïd Tazi & Khaldoun Zreik, pp. 117-124, ISBN 978-2-909285-46-4, IEEE, Europia (Eds), Paris, 2008. x

• O. Sébastien, N. Conruyt, “Facilitating the Transmission of Know-How: Using Mixed Media to Teach Musical Instruments“, Proceedings of abstracts of the 13th International Conference on Technology Supported Learning and Training, Online Educa, November 28 - 30, Berlin, 2007.

• D. Sébastien, O. Sébastien, N. Conruyt, “Introducing E-campus : a MMORPG dedicated to E-learning“, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Educational & Serious Games, Cgames 2007, November 21 - 23, La Rochelle, 2007.

• R. Porcher, L. Cochet, N. Conruyt, “MMO goes to University : a strategy to acquire the virtual worlds technologies and procedural knowledge as research tool“, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Educational & Serious Games, Cgames 2007, November 21 - 23, La Rochelle, 2007.

• N. Conruyt, D. Grosser, H. Ralambondrainy, “Indices de similarité structurelle sur des données arborescentes“, Actes de la XIVe rencontre de la Société Francophone de Classification, SFC’2007, pp. 62-65, 5-7 septembre, ENST, Paris, France, 2007.

• O. Sébastien, N. Conruyt, S. Calderoni, “Enhancing Music Learning Experience through a Dedicated Web 2.0 Oriented Service“, Proceedings of International Conferences on New Media Technology and Semantic Systems, I-media’2007 and I-semantics’2007, Graz, Austria, September 5-7, 2007, K. Tochtermann / W. Haas / F. Kappe / A. Scharl / T. Pellegrini / S. Schaffert (Eds.), pp. 109-116, (ISSN: 0948-695x, Online: ISSN 0948-6968), Graz, Austria, 2007.

• D. Sébastien, N. Conruyt, “A new neuron based architecture exploiting 3D Virtual Worlds advantages for e-learning at University“, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Open and Online Learning, ICOOL’2007, June 11-14, 2007, Penang, Malaysia, 2007.

• O. Sébastien, N. Conruyt, “Know-hows transmission: an application to music learning“, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Open and Online Learning, ICOOL’2007, June 11-14, 2007, Penang, Malaysia, 2007.

• N. Conruyt, “Enhancing Insular Tropical Environment Contents with Information and Communication Technologies: the ETIC Program at Reunion’s Island and in the South West of Indian Ocean“, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection, EnviroInfo'2006, Managing Environmental Knowledge, Graz, Austria, September 6-8, 2006, K. Tochtermann / A. Scharl (Eds.), pp. 513-520, ISBN-10 :3-8322-5321-1, Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2006.

• N. Conruyt, P. Conruyt, O. Sébastien, “A methodology for Designing E-services from a Co-Design Platform“, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Knowledge Management, I-know'06, Graz, Austria, September 6-8, 2006, K. Tochtermann / H. Maurer (Eds.), pp. 226-230, ISSN 0948-695x, J.UCS, Graz, Austria, 2006.

• O. Sébastien, N. Conruyt, M. Quafafou, “Interactivity and pedagogy in Multimedia Instrumental Music Learning”, Human System Learning, who is in control ?, 5th International Conference on Human System Learning, ICHSL.5, November 22-25, 2005, Marrakech, Marocco, Ed by: Khaldoun Zreik and Mohammed Ramdani and Mohamed Ed Adnani and Mostafa Bellafkih, pp. 171-186, ISBN 2-909285-33-2, Europia (Eds), Paris, 2005.

• O. Sébastien, N. Conruyt, “Natural music e-learning system development: the e-Guitare user-centered approach“, Proceedings of the second International Conference on Open & Online Learning, ICOOL’2005, July 4-7, 2005, Cape Town, South Africa, 2005.

• N. Conruyt, D. Grosser, Y. Geynet, G. Faure, M. Pichon, F. Trentin, N. Gravier-Bonnet, P. Chabanet, A. Senteni and V. Torrens, “Virtual Research and Learning Community: Co-design of knowledge bases in marine biology, applied to corals of the Mascarene Archipelago and to fishes and hydroids of Reunion coral reefs“, Proceedings of the 10th International Coral Reef Symposium, Okinawa, Japan, 2004. x

Papers in proceedings of workshops of international conferences:

• N. Conruyt, V. Sébastien, O. Sébastien, D. Grosser, D. Sébastien, "From Knowledge transmission to Sign sharing: Semiotic Web as a new paradigm for Teaching and Learning in the Future Internet", In 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Edited by Eunika Mercier-Laurent, Nada Matta, Mieczyslow L. Owoc and Inès Saad., Vol. 1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Management, AI4KM'2012. ECAI’2012, 1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Management, AI4KM'2012. Montpellier, France, 2012. =>

• N. Conruyt, D. Grosser, Y. Geynet, “Enhancing Insular Tropical Environment contents through ICT and a Co-design methodology : the case of the ETIC program“, Proceedings of the 5th ECAI Workshop on Binding Environmental Sciences and Artificial Intelligence, BESAI’2006, M. Oprea / M. Sànchez-Marrè / F. Wotawa (Eds.), 1-1–1-7, Riva del Garda, Italy, 2006.

• O. Sébastien, N. Conruyt, P. Conruyt, “E-guitare, an instrumental e-learning project”, 4th Open Workshop of MusicNetwork: Integration of Music in Multimedia Applications, WEDELMUSIC’2004 Conference, 14-16 September 2004, Barcelona, Spain, 2004.

Posters and abstracts in proceedings of international and national conferences:

• D. Grosser, H. Ralambondrainy, N. Conruyt, "Classification by successive neighbourhood", Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval, KDIR'2009, pp. 288-291, INSTICC Press 2009, ISBN 978-989-674-011-5, Funchal - Madeira, Portugal, October 6-8, 2009.

• N. Conruyt, D. Grosser, Y. Geynet, G. Faure, M. Pichon, D. Caron, D. Sebastien, L. Cochet, "Managing insular tropical biodiversity through alpha e-systematics: application to corals of the Mascarene archipelago",  International Conference on Biodiversity Informatics, e-biosphere'09, 1-3 June, London, 2009.

• N. Conruyt, O. Sébastien, D. Grosser, “Plateau de créativité : application au e-learning instrumental”, 19èmes Journées Francophones d’Ingénierie des Connaissances, IC’2008, 18-20 juin, LORIA, Nancy, 2008.

Enhancement brochures:

• Equipe Coraux des Mascareignes, “Bases de connaissances sur les coraux des Mascareignes : grâce aux TIC, mieux connaître la biodiversité pour mieux la préserver”, LIM-IREMIA-ICIHM,Université de La Réunion, 2008.