Survey on Knowledge Representation Models in Healthcare

Batoul Msheik is a PhD student at the University of Québec at Chicoutimi, Canada, and is originally from Lebanon. She completed her Master's degree in Research in Computer Communication Engineering from the Lebanese University and USJ in 2018. Currently, her research is centered on designing a healthcare system tailored for asthma patients, driven by her passion for merging technology and healthcare to improve patient outcomes.

Prof. Dr. Mehdi Adda has been a Professor of Computer Science at the Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), Canada, since June 2010. From August 2008 to May 2010 he was an Invited Professor at the same university. His principal research interests lie in the fields of knowledge and data engineering, IoT, and security. He obtained two PhD degrees in Computer Science from the Université de Montréal, Canada, and the Université de Lille, France, in 2008. He received two MSc degrees in Computer Science from Joseph Fourier University in 2002 (Grenoble, France) and the Université du Havre (Le Havre, France) in 2003, as well as an engineering degree in computer science from the University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene (Algiers, Algeria) in 2001.

Dr. Hamid Mcheick is a full Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Québec at Chicoutimi, Canada. He has more than 25 years of experience in both academic and industrial areas. He completed his Ph.D. in Software Engineering and Distributed Systems at the University of Montreal, Canada. He is working on designing smart and connected software applications; designing healthcare frameworks for many diseases; and designing smart Internet of Things architectural models. He has supervised many post-doctorate, Ph.D., master’s, and bachelor’s students. He is an editor of a book with two researchers. He has also 9 book chapters, more than 60 research papers in international journals, and more than 150 research papers in international/national conference and workshop proceedings in his credit. He has given many keynote speeches and tutorials in his research area, particularly in Healthcare Systems, Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Distributed Middleware Architectures, Software Connectors, Service Oriented Computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Mobile Edge Computing, Fog Computing, and Cloud Computing. He has received many grants from governments, industries, and academics. He is a chief editor, chair, co-chair, reviewer, and member of many organizations (such as IEEE, ACM, Springer, MDPI, Elsevier, and Inderscience) around the world.

Mohamed Dbouk is currently a fulltime Professor at the Lebanese University (Department of Computer Science, Hadth,-Beirut, Lebanon). He coordinates (and is the lead funder of) a master-2 research degree “ISDI-Information Systems & Data Intelligence” and a research lab “L'ARICoD: Lab of Advanced Research in Intelligent Computing and Data”. He is the co-founder/co-chair of the “BDCSIntell: International Conference on Big Data and Cyber-Security Intelligence”. Dr. Dbouk maintains scientific partnerships with several universities (in France, Canada, England, and Switzerland). He received his PhD (Geographic Information System GIS & Hypermedia) from the Paris-11 (Orsay) University, France, in 1997. Prof. Dbouk has numerous refereed international publications, and he is a scientific committee member of several international conferences and journals. Dr. Dbouk research topics of interests include software engineering and healthcare information systems, data warehousing, big data intelligence and data-mining, ubiquitous computing and smart cities, and service and cloud/edge-oriented computing. He supervises many PhD theses and academic research projects. Finally, Dr. Dbouk has a strong background and experience in academic auditing and enhancement (Designer & Auditor of the academic curriculum, the UNDP Project) and in business administration and management (for two mandates; director of the Faculty of Sciences, Lebanese University, Hadath-Beirut).