Yvan B?©dard has been professor of GIS and spatial databases at Laval University
Department of Geomatics Sciences, Canada since 1986. He was director of the
Centre for Research in Geomatics for 7 years and is involved in the GEOIDE Network
of Centers of Excellence. Dr. B?©dard has participated to major projects with
government agencies and private industries in Canada and abroad and has presented
about 350 papers and conferences worldwide. Actually, Dr. B?©dard is chair holder
of the industrial research chair in geospatial database for decision support funded
by National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
Ameur Boujenoui holds bachelor??™s and master??™s degrees in engineering (applied
mathematics) from INSEA (Morocco) and a PhD in management from HEC Montreal
(Canada). He has more than 30 years experience in management and consulting.
He is currently a teaching associate at the University of Ottawa. His research
interests include business strategy and policy, corporate governance, and change
management.
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Carlo Combi received the master??™s degree in EE by the Politecnico of Milan. In 1993
he received the PhD in biomedical engineering. In 1994 and 1995 he was postdoctoral
fellow at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the Politecnico of Milan.
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