Thanks to the advances in mobile, IoT, Cloud, and Edge Computing, many sharing economy models such as virtual marketplaces, industry 4.0, and distributed supply chains have emerged. These models open up the possibility to reduce costs and time, improve quality, and boost innovation. Nevertheless, this form of open collaboration that involves unknown partners and on-the-fly process definition is only possible if the trust and reliability are established by the system through technical measures such as verification, traceability, transparency, and the automation of execution of the collaboration agreements that define the expectations and responsibilities of each partner.
Layth Sliman received a degree in computer engineering, then a master’s degree in computer science, and then a Ph.D. degree from INSA Lyon, in collaboration with the University of the Ryukyus, Japan. After that, he received his Habilitation for Research Direction from the University of Paris Saclay, France. Layth Sliman’s main interests are Resilient Distributed Systems, Middleware, Privacy by Design, Blockchain, Cryptography, Access Control, and Identity Management. Since September 2010, he worked as an Associate Professor at Efrei, Paris Panthéon-Assas- University. He is currently a researcher and “Trust, and Security research” team leader at EFREI, Paris Panthéon- Assas University. From 2000 to 2014, Layth Sliman worked as a Lecturer and did his research on distributed systems engineering and information security in many universities including INSA, Lyon France; the University of the Ryukyus, Japan; Beijing University of Technology, China; and the Institute of Visual Informatics, Malaysia.
Layth Sliman has been deeply involved in many national and international research projects such as Semeuse, Intreprod, Sygeo (France), Exec&Share, and Okinawa Road (Japan). He also participated in the creation of many PoCs and open-source products like PEtALS and OrchaLang. He received many awards, scholarships, and Grants from France and Japan. He supervised many Ph.D. theses in collaboration with the industry. He published more than 50 international publications and communications.
He delivered many keynotes and invited talks in France, the USA, Italy, India, Malaysia, Japan, and Spain. He has chaired and organized more than ten outstanding international conferences including IEEE-WETICE and IFIP-NTMS. He is an expert in the National Accreditation Commission of Engineering Degree in France (CTI).