Dominique Decouchant
Visiting Research Scientist of C. N. R. S. (France)

Department of Computer Science

CINVESTAV-IPN
Av. IPN No. 2508 Col. San Pedro Zacatenco
México, D.F. 07360. MEXICO

Personal page:  http://delta.cs.cinvestav.mx/~decoucha/
E-mail: decouchacs.cinvestav.mx
Tel:  +52 55 5747 3800 x 6559
Fax:   +52 55 5747 3757

Excelencia en Investigación
y Posgrado



Education

· PhD. in Computer Science, University Joseph Fourier of Grenoble, France 1987.
· MSc in Computer Science, University Joseph Fourier of Grenoble, France 1984.

Research Interests

Researcher of the Distributed Systems domain. His current research interests are centered on Distributed Cooperative Systems and Applications (CSCW). More especially, his main research topics are the distributed cooperative authoring on the Web, the design and the implementation of an afficient Web infrastructure ("middleware") to support groupware applications, and the definition and management of distributed collaborative environments.


Keywords:    Cooperative authoring, Web cooperative environments, "middleware" for distributed CSCW systems, design and implementation of Web infrastructures, design/management of shared and distributed entities.

Selected Publications

1. S. Mendoza, D. Decouchant, A. L. Morán, A. M. Martínez and J. Favela. Adaptive Distribution Support for Co-authored Documents on the Web. In Proc. of CRIWG'2005, The 11th International Conference on Workshop on Groupware, pp. 33-48, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, no 3706, Springer Verlag, Porto de Galinhas (Brazil), 25-29 September 2005.

2. S. Mendoza, D. Decouchant, A. L. Morán, A. M. Martínez and J. Favela. Flexible Distribution Support for Co-authored Web Documents. In Proc. of ENC'2005, The 6th Mexican International. Conference on Computer Science, pp. 10-17, IEEE Computer Society, Puebla (Mexico), 28-30 September 2005.

3. A. Muhammad, A. M. Martínez and D. Decouchant. Awareness and Coordination for Web Cooperative Authoring. In Proc. of AWIC'2005, The 3rd International. Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference, pp. 327-333, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, no 3528, Springer Verlag, Lodz (Poland), 6-9 June 2005.

4. S. Mendoza, A. L. Mor
án, D. Decouchant, A. M. Martínez and J. Favela. Access Control-based distribution of shared documents. In Proc. of CoopIS'2004, The 12th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, pp. 12-13, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, no 3292, Springer Verlag, Agia Napa (Cyprus), 25-29 October 2004.

5. J. Favela, H. Natsu, C. B. Pérez, Omar Robles, A. L. Mor
án, R. Romero, A. M. Martínez. Empirical Evaluation of Collaborative Support for Distributed Pair Programming. In Proc. of CRIWG'2004, The 10th International. Workshop on Groupware, pp. 215-222, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, no 3198, Springer Verlag, San Carlos (Costa Rica), 5-9 September 2004.