The Winners

CIST Session:

Paper 100: HCHIRSIMEX: An extended method for domain ontology learning based on conditional mutual information. By Omar El Idrissi Esserhrouchni, Bouchra Frikh and Brahim Ouhbi, Fez and Meknes, Morocco

Paper 67: Towards a Smart Cloud Gate for Smart Devices Manel Gherari, Abdelkrim Amirat, Mourad Oussalah and Ridda Laouar LAMIS Laboratory, University of Tebessa, Algeria

IOT Session:

Paper 30: Improving Threshold Distributed Energy Efficient Clustering Algorithm for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks. Mostafa Baghouri, Saad Chakkor and A. Hajraoui. Faculty of Sciences, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco

ANLP Session:

Paper 14: Word Processing for Arabic Language. A reappraisal of morphology induction through adaptive memory self-organisation strategies. Claudia Marzi, Ouafae Nahli and Marcello Ferro Institute for Computational Linguistics, National Research Council - ILC, CNR Pisa Italy

IMP Session:

Paper 20: 3D Face Recognition Using Facial Curves, Sparse Random Projection and Fuzzy Similarity Measure. Naouar Belghini, Soufiane Ezghari and Azeddine Zahi. FST, USMBA, Fez, Morocco

About the IEEE CIST 2014 Best Doctoral Paper Awards

The Winners

• Mrs Houda Chakiri, founder and director of Enhanced technology
• Mr Karim Boukabbouz, co-founder and director of Intelligent Business Solutions "IBS" North Africa

What is the IEEE CIST 2014 Young ICT Entrepreneur Award?