Mokhtar Beldjehem is Software Engineer, Educator, Researcher, Author, Consultant, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist. He holds B.Eng., M.Eng., and Ph.D. all in Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Software Engineering. He has been intimately involved in Software Engineering Research since 1985 and in Soft Computing Research since 1989. His current research interest is the interplay of Soft Computing and Software Engineering. He has over twenty years experience split between the Software Industry and Academia. He has been studying the problems of software development since 1988. By combining system construction, consultation, and academic research he has been able to develop principles and methods that are both of academic interest and applicable to real-world problems. He has coordinated several Canadian, European and International successful research projects and has published more than 60 scientific papers. He has chaired many national and international conferences and technical sessions in these areas and he is involved, as a steering committee member, in organization of several international Conferences, Member of Editorial Board and  Reviewer in several international journals, and serves(ed) on program committees of numerous conferences and workshops related to Soft Computing, Software Engineering and their interplay. He is currently in process of founding a "Software Engineering and Soft Computing" Research laboratory, which is equipped with the state of the art CASE tools, Workbenches, Environments and facilities for Model-driven Engineering and Reengineering Large Scale Software Systems and Complex Hybrid Cooperative Intelligent Soft Computing Systems. He uses  Open Source systems in teaching and research such as: Linux , OpenOffice, Moodle, Eclipse, NetBeans, Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, PHP, Perl, Python, Java, JUnit, Subversion , R, Joomla , Alfresco , Zimbra...and s.o. He is a proponent of  free open textbooks, free open source and free open standards.

Industry Experience

20 years as an independent consultant, specializing in innovation, knowledge transfer, entrepreneurship and mentoring on projects that address the requirements of specific industries as they adopt new technology to automate and manage business processes including government, health care, telecommunications, manufacturing, and electronic commerce. My expertise includes UML, MDA, Object Oriented Design, Quality Assurance and RUP and have too mentored several teams in the adoption of agile development processes ( Scrum. )

Motto:  to nurture the spirit of cooperation and strive to improve the quality of life in this global village through excellence in Model-driven Engineering and Reengineering Large Scale Software Systems,  Complex Hybrid Cooperative Intelligent Soft Computing Systems, and Education at the service of humankind.

[1] Beldjehem M., 2011, “A Granular Unified Hybrid Min-Max Fuzzy-Neuro

Relational Learner: A Case Study,” in International Journal of Hybrid Information Technology (IJHIT) - Volume 4, Number 4, 2011, pp. 1-18.

           [2] Beldjehem M., 2011 “A Unified Granular Hybrid Min-Max Fuzzy-Neuro  

                 For Medical Diagnosis”, in International Journal of Advanced

                 Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP) - Volume 3, Number 2, 2011, pp. 1-21.

[3] Beldjehem M., 2011 “On Conception and Validation of Hybrid Relational

      Min-Max Learner”, International Journal of Hybrid Information        

      Technology (IJHIT) - Volume 4, Number 3, 2011, pp. 1-21.

           [4] Beldjehem M., 2011 “A Unified Granular Hybrid Soft Computing

                 Framework for Vision Engineering”, in International Journal of Advanced

                 Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP) - Volume 3, Number 3/4, 2011, pp.1-12.

[5] Beldjehem M., 2010, “A Granular Unified Hybrid MinMax Fuzzy-Neuro

       Framework for Predicting and Understanding Software Quality,” in

      International Journal of Software Engineering and Applications (IJSEA),

      Special Issue on Advances in Software Engineering with Soft-Computing, 

      Vol.4, No.4, 2010 (Guest Editors Jose C. Riquelme, Roberto Ruiz, and Daniel 

                  Rodriguez), pp.17-36.

     Conference General Chair and Main Organizer of NASTEC’10 (North-

      American Simulation Technology Conference), August 25-27, 2010, Digipen

      Institute of Technology, Redmond, USA.

      Conference General Chair and Main Organizer of NASTEC’09 (North-American

      Simulation Technology Conference), August 26-28, 2009, Georgia Tech Global  

       Learning Center, Atlanta, USA,

     Conference General Chair and Main Organizer of (North-American

       Simulation Technology Conference) NASTEC’08, series of conference dedicated

       To the Integration of Soft Computing, Simulation and Software Engineering,

      August 13-15, 2008, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

     Co-organizer and Co-Chair of MESM’01 (The Middle Eastern Simulation  

      Multiconference), September 3-5, 2001, Amman University, Amman, Jordan

      Co-organizer and Co-Chair of the e-Government international conference, 2002,

      Amman University, Jordan.

     Instigator and Co-Chair of on the SE Curriculum Development Workshop, 2002,

      British Council, Amman (Radisson SAS Hotel), Jordan. [Prof. Mc Gentrick]