Nom et prénom: Mhamed-Ali El-Aroui Email:Mhamed.Elaroui@isg.rnu.tn Titre Scientifique: Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (ENSIMAG Grenoble) Titre Administratif: Associate-Professor of Quantitative Methods at ISG de Tunis Adresse Administrative: ISG de Tunis, 41 Av. de la Liberté. Bardo 2000.TUNISIA. Department of Economics and Quantitative-Methods Tél: (+216) 71 560 313 Fax: 216 71 568 767 Langues: Arabe, Français, Anglais.

• 1996 : PhD in Applied Mathematics (Statistics). Dissertation topic: Statistical tools for Software Reliability Analysis. Advisor: Prof J.L. Soler, LMC-IMAG Grenoble, France. Defended september 20, 1996. Graduated with honors.
• 91-92 : Master of Sciences in Statistics and Probability. University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble. Graduated with honors.
• 89-92 : Graduate course at the ENSIMAG, Engineering School Teaching Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Grenoble. Special field of study: Statistics and Probability. Graduated with honors.
• 87-89 : Undergraduate training for the competitive entrance examinations to French Engineering Schools. Lycée Masséna, Nice.

1. El Aroui, M.A. & Diebolt, J. (2002), ``On the use of the Peaks Over Thresholds method for estimating out-of-sample quantiles''. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 39, No. 4. pp. 453-475. June 2002.

2. Ramani, S; El Aroui, M.A & Audinet, P. (2001), ``Technology Transfer: Partner Selection and Contract Design with Foreign Firms in the Indian Biotechnology Sectors''. The Developing Economies, 39, No. 1. pp. 85-111. March 2001.

3. Diebolt, J; El Aroui, M.A; Durbec, V. & Villain, B. (2000), ``Estimation of Extreme Quantiles: Empirical tools for Methods Assessment and Comparison''. International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, 7, No. 1. pp. 75-94.

4. Crétois, E; El Aroui M.A & Gaudoin, O (1999) ``U-plot Method for testing the Goodness-of-fit of the Power-Law-Process''. Communications in Statistics : Theory and Methods, 28, No. 7. pp. 1731-1747.

5. El Aroui, M.A. (1999), ``The Predictive-Sequential goodness-of-fit approach: a study of the exponential distribution case''. Sequential Analysis, 18, No. 3-4. pp. 189-202.

6. El Aroui, M.A. & Lavergne, C. (1996), ``Generalized Linear Models in Software Reliability: parametric and semi-parametric approaches''. IEEE Trans. on Reliability, 45, No. 3. pp. 463-470. September 1996.

7. El Aroui, M.A. & Soler, J.L. (1996), ``A Bayes Nonparametric Framework for Software Reliability Analysis''. IEEE Trans. on Reliability, 45, No. 4. pp. 652-660. December 1996.

• El Aroui, M.A. & Gaudoin, O. (2003), ``On the use of Prequential Tools for Assessing the Goodness-Of-Fit of Stochastic Processes''. 54th session of the International Statistical Institute ISI 2003. Berlin (Germany). August 13-20, 2003.
• El Aroui, M.A. & Diebolt, J. (2000), ``A study of the Excesses over Thresholds method for estimating extreme quantiles''. 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability MMR'2000, Bordeaux (France). July 4-7, 2000.
• Crétois, E. & El Aroui, M.A. & Gaudoin, O. (1999) ``Software-reliability model selection: a new look on the U-plot method''. 5th ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design, Las Vegas (USA). August 11-13, 1999.
• Bouassida, R. & El Aroui, M.A. & Limam, M. (1999) ``Multivariate Control Chart Interpretation: Neural Computing vs Hotelling's T2 Decomposition''. CIMCA 99 (International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation), Vienna (Austria). February 99.
  Published in Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control & Automation : Neural Networks & Advanced Control Strategies, IOS Press (1999), pp. 34-39.
• Crétois, E. & El Aroui, M.A. & Gaudoin, O. (1998) ``Tests préquentiels d'adéquation aux modéles de croissance de fiabilité''. XXXth ASU (Statistics Users Association) Conference, Rennes (France). Mai 98.
• El Aroui, M.A. & Lavergne, C. (1995) ``Construction and Choice of Models in Software Reliability''. ``Lecture Notes of the Third ISI International Summer School on Model Choice and Design of Experiments''. Izmir (Turkey), September 95.
• El Aroui, M.A. & Soler J.L. (1995) ``Evaluation bayésienne des performances des équipes de correction de logiciels''. XXVIIth ASU (Statistics Users Association) Conference, Jouy-en-Josas (France), May 95.
• El Aroui, M.A. & Lavergne, C. (1994) ``Modèles linéaires généralisés et modèles semi-paramétriques en Fiabilité des logiciels''. XXVIth ASU Conference, Neuchâtel (Switzerland). May 94.
• El Aroui et al (1993) ``Variable amplitude fatigue modelling''. Sixth ECMI Conference (European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry). Grenoble (France). Sept. 93.

Research Interests

• Spatial statistics
• Extreme Events Modelling
• Knowledge Transfer Modelling
• GLM’s: Applications and Extensions
• Stochastic Models for Reliability and Quality control

• 1997-2004 : LARODEC, ISG de Tunis.
  Member of LARODEC Laboratory of Operational Research, Decision and Process Control.
• 1996-97 : INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Gronoble.
  Post-Doc, Project IS2 (Statistical Inference for Industry and Health).
• 1992-96 : LMC-IMAG, Grenoble.
  Ph.D. in the Statistics and Stochastical Modelling department.

Research Collaboration

Knowledge Transfer and R&D Strategies

• with Pr. Shyama Ramani, Gael, INRA Grenoble.
  

GLM’s, Extreme and Spatial Statistics

• with Pr. Christian Lavergne and Pr. Jean Diebolt, IS2, INRIA Rhône-Alpes.

Complex System Reliability

• with Pr. Olivier Gaudoin, SMS, LMC-IMAG

• 2002-03: Associate Professor at ISG (Management School, University of Tunis) in Statistics (Statistical Simulation for Financial Markets, Applied Statistics and Multivariate Data Analysis) and Systems Reliability, graduate level (240 hours a year).
• 97-02: Assistant Professor at ISG (Management School, University of Tunis) in Statistics (Mathematical Statistics, Applied Statistics and Multivariate Data Analysis) and Statistical Quality Control, graduate level (240 hours a year).
• 93-97: Teaching Assistantship at ENSIMAG (Grenoble) in Statistics (Applied statistics and Multivariate Data Analysis) and Computer Science (Splus), graduate level (90 hours a year).
• 92-93: Teaching Assistantship at University Joseph Fourier (Grenoble) in Mathematics, undergraduate level (64 hours).

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