Christelle Vangenot

I am scientific collaborator in the laboratory of Anthropology, Genetics and Peopling history (AGP) at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

I am interested in various aspects of tropical ecology, behaviour, evolution and conservation and particularly:
  • Primates
  • Human settlement history and evolution
  • Life history consequences of early developmental conditions
  • Alloparenting

Short Biography

I have a Master in Biology (option Behaviour, Evolution and Conservation) obtained in 2010 in the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and a PhD in Computer Science obtained in 2001 in EPFL.

After a Master in Computer Science (option Databases and Artificial Intelligence) obtained in 1993 in the University of Burgundy (France), my career as a computer scientist started in the computer science center of the social security where I was software engineer. I was programming cobol applications and then in charge of the conception and implementation of an information system allowing the establishment of statistics about expenses of private clinics.

Then, in 1997, I moved to Lausanne where I got my PhD in 2001 on Multiple representations in spatial databases. In addition to my PhD research work, I was involved in the supervision of exercises and projects of the database lectures. I also participated as a consultant in the modeling of several spatial applications: cartographic, water management, risk management.

After my PhD, I worked as a consultant at Umanis SARL where I was in charge of database modeling to implement cubes for multidimentional analysis of human ressource data.

However, I was missing a research and teaching environment and, in 2003, I returned to EPFL as a senior researcher at the Database Laboratory until 2009. I was teaching classes on databases, Java and C programming and my research work was on multiple representation in Databases, ontologies and moving objects.

In 2008, however, I decided to follow my passion for nature and animals and started studying for a Master's Degree in Behaviour, Evolution and Conservation at the (University of Lausanne) that I obtained in 2010

I enjoyed every minute of it and particularly my two research projects: the first step project on Allo-paternal care in Primates and the master thesis on the Fitness Consequences of Weather Conditions during the Early Life of a Wild Aerial Insectivorous Bird, the Alpine Swift (Apus melba).

Previous research Interests in computer science


  • Multiple representations in spatial databases
  • Conceptual modeling in spatio-temporal Databases and Data warehouses
  • Ontologies

My main research interest is in Multiple representations in Databases and data warehouses. I have proposed a new approach for modeling multiple representations in spatial databases. This approach called Stamping has been applied successfully during the european project MurMur. Actually I'm working on multiple representations of moving objects in the context of the GeoPKDD project and on multiple representations of ontologies.

More generally I'm interested in conceptual modeling for spatial databases. I've participated in the specifications of the MADS conceptual model for spatio-temporal databases.

More recently I have studied the differencies/similarities between ontologies and databases.

Research Activities


I am member of the Editorial Board of Revue Internationale de Géomatique, Hermes.

I am member of the steering commitee of W2GIS conference

I've co-organized the workshops CoMoGIS 2006 and W2GIS 2005.

I am member of the program commitee of the following conferences:
- Flexible Database and Information System Technology (FlexDBIST)
- International Workshop on XML Schema and Data Management (XSDM)
- ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC)
- SAGEO
- International Workshop on Semantics and Conceptual Issues in Geographical Information Systems (SeCoGIS)
- International Conference on SIGNAL-IMAGE TECHNOLOGY and INTERNET- BASED SYSTEMS (SITIS)
- Brazilian Symposium on Geoinformatics (GeoInfo)
- Ontology Theory conference (OTC)
- International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES)

Teaching

I've taught the following courses:

Publications

C. Vangenot, C. Parent, S. Spaccapietra. Multiple Representation Modeling. Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 2009

J. Macedo, C. Vangenot, W. Othman, N. Pelekis, E. Frentzos, B. Kuijpers, I. Ntoutsi , S. Spaccapietra, Y. Theodoridis. Trajectory Data Models. In Mobility, data mining, and Privacy, Fosca Giannoti, Dino Pedreschi (Eds), Springer 2007.

N. Pelekis, A. Raffaeta, M.-L. Damiani, C. Vangenot, G. Marketos, E. Frentzos, I. Ntoutsi, and Y. Theodoridis. Towards Trajectory Data Warehouses. In Mobility, data mining, and Privacy, Fosca Giannoti, Dino Pedreschi (Eds), Springer 2007.

A. Sotnykova, C. Vangenot, N. Cullot, N. Bennacer, and M-A. Aufaure. Semantic Mappings in Description Logics for Spatio-Temporal Database Schema Integration. Journal on Data Semantics III, LNCS 3534, 2005

A. Sotnykova, C. Vangenot, N. Cullot. Spatio-temporal schema integration with validation: a practical approach. In first International Workshop on Semantic-based Geographical Information Systems (SeBGIS'05), LNCS 3762, November 3 - 4, 2005.

Y. Chevriaux, E. Saux, C. Vangenot. Un système intégré pour l'intéropérabilité entre SIG et acoustique sous-marine. Modélisation conceptuelle sous MADS. (in french). Géomatique et analyse spatiale. Revue Internationale de Géomatique, vol. 15 (2), 2005 (Actes des Journées Cassini 2004)

C. Vangenot. Multi-representation in spatial databases using the MADS conceptual model. ICA Workshop on Generalisation and Multiple representation, Leicester UK, 2004.

S. Spaccapietra, N. Cullot, C. Parent, C. Vangenot. On Spatial Ontologies. 6th Brazilian Symposium On Geoinformatics, Campos do Jordao, Brazil, November 22-24, 2004.

S. Spaccapietra, C. Parent, N. Cullot, C. Vangenot. On Using Conceptual Modeling for Ontologies. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Intelligent Networked and Mobile Systems, Ontologies for Networked Systems (ONS) track, located at the 5th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering WISE 2004, Brisbane, Australia, November 22-24, 2004.

N. Cullot, C. Parent, S. Spaccapietra, C. Vangenot. Des ontologies pour données géographiques. (in French), Les SIG sur le web, Revue Internationale de Géomatique, vol. 13(3), 2003.

D. Benslimane, C. Roussey, C. Vangenot, A. Arara. Towards a contextual content of ontologies. Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, ISMIS 2003, Maebashi City, Japan, October 28-31, 2003.

N. Cullot, C. Parent, S. Spaccapietra, C. Vangenot. Ontologies: A Contribution to the DL/DB debate. Proc. of the 1st International Workshop on the Semantic Web and Databases, 29th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Berlin Germany, September 7-8, 2003.

D. Benslimane, C. Vangenot, C. Roussey, A. Arara. Multi-representation in ontologies. Proceedings of 7th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2003, Dresden, Germany, September 3-6, 2003.

D. Benslimane, A. Arara, C. Vangenot, K. Yetongnon. A Contextual Language Approach for Multirepresentation Ontologies. In proceedings of New Trends in Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining, IIS 2003, Zakopane, Poland, June 2-5, 2003.

C. Vangenot, C. Parent, S. Spaccapietra. Modeling and Manipulating Multiple Representations of Spatial Data. SDH'02. Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, Ottawa, Canada, July 9-12, 2002.

C. Vangenot, C. Parent, S. Spaccapietra. Modélisation et manipulation de données avec multi-représentation dans le modèle MADS. (in French). Traité Information Géographique et Aménagement du Territoire IGAT. Edition Hermès. 2002.

C. Vangenot. A model for web spatial data integration. WebGIS'01. First International Workshop on Web Geographical Information Systems, IEEE Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2001), Kyoto, Japan, December 3, 2001.

C. Vangenot. Supporting decision-making with alternative data representations. Journal of Geographical Information and Decision Analysis JGIDA, vol.5/2001 (available: www.geodec.org).

La multi-représentation dans les bases de données géographiques. C. Vangenot. Thèse de doctorat n° 2430, EPFL, Septembre 2001.