INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS

Eunika Mercier-Laurent, AI Expert, Professor, Global Innovation Strategist, Architect of Knowledge Flows

Chair IFIP TC12 (Artificial Intelligence), Chair TC12.6 AI for KM and Innovation

Electronic engineer graduated from Polytechnika of Warsaw (Poland), she published her Ph.D. thesis in INRIA and University Paris Diderot on natural language retrieval from data bases. Later, she worked as researcher in INRIA on the design of the first personal workstation for collaborative work – buroviseur. In 1982 she joined Groupe Bull, international computer company to work on the design of DPS7 large computer. Since 1987 she has been involved in artificial intelligence tools and methods complex industrial problem solving and innovative applications worldwide (CEDIAG Groupe Bull).

She is Associate Researcher at IAE (University Jean Moulin Lyon), where she got her HDR in 2007. She is teacher and e-teacher of Knowledge Innovation and knowledge thinking approach in engineering schools and universities. Main topic of her research work is about transforming all forms of computers into intelligent assistants of humans. She is member of Institut F.R. Bull, multidisciplinary group working on influence of new technologies on different areas like decision in complex environment, complex systems security, medicine; influence of natural on artificial brains and machines. Other honors and activities: VP of AFIA, CAAI;  EC, OSEO, ANR expert, cofounder of the Mediterranean University of Innovation, Global Forum steering committee since 2005, SIG Editor on the European Knowledge board, organizer and co-organizer of several scientific conferences, member of IFIP TC12 and chair of TC 12.6 on Knowledge Management. She is frequently invited talk at the international conferences, author of tutorials and over hundred publications and books :

1. Réalisation de communications dans un processeur de consultation de données textuelles Thèse Docteur-Ingénieur 1980 INRIA.
2. Optimisation de la distribution physique grâce aux techniques de l’intelligence artificielle – Carrefours Logistique 1990.
3. Programmation par objets : Systèmes Experts en Gestion d’Entreprise Clermont-Ferrand 1990.
4. Programmation par Contraintes : Les Systèmes Experts dans l’Informatique de Gestion SEIGE’91 Bayonne 1991.
5. EDEN diagnosis Expert System Environment Expersys 92, Paris
6. E. Mercier-Laurent, Catherine Fatou : CORAIL, l’Interface en langage naturel aux bases de données relationnelles – Colloque Evolution de l’outil informatique à l’Université (Lyon 1992).
7. Bulletin AFIA, Rubrique Présentation de Laboratoires avec Yves Kodratoff professeur à l’Université Paris XI : « George Mason University Center for Artificial Intelligence » N° 13 Avril 1993
8. Méthodologie de développement de systèmes à base de connaissance : Expersys 93 (Paris)
9. Right tool  for the right problem Expersys 94 Houston
10. Intelligence Artificielle – Apperçu historique, Biuletyn Informacyjny de l’Association des Ingénieurs et Techniciens Polonais en France, N° 205/206 1994
11. Maintenance of Plane’s Engines using CBR, Expersys95 San Francisco
12. Methodology for Problem Solving using AI, Expersys95
13. Quo vadis IA ? Bulletin de l’AFIA n° 22, 1995
14. Knowledge Management some industrial examples Expersys 96 Paris
15. Anne Dourgnon, E. Mercier-Laurent « Retour d’expérience en développement de systèmes experts au département SDM : le système SILEX d’aide au dépannage des armoires de contrôle/commande des mécanismes de grappes, Rapport EDF 1996
16. Catalina Vargas, Eunika Mercier-Laurent : Système d’aide à la conception d’ensembles mécaniques dans l’industrie automobile  Bulletin AFIA 1996
17. Eunika Mercier-Laurent, Catalina Vargas : Rôle des techniques nouvelles basées sur le traitement et la gestion de la connaissance dans la conception,  MICAD97 Tutorial
18. Knowledge based Enterprise – « How to optimise the flow of knowledge – theory and practice” : Knowledge Acquisition  Szklarska Poreba Poland 25-27 april 97
19. Global Knowledge Management beginning from website – How to organize the Flow of Knowledge in an International Company -theories and practice – ISMICK 97 Compiegne
20. From website to Global Knowledge Management PAKeM98 London
21. WEB and Knowledge Management Process – Knowledge Acquisition from Data Bases 1998  Rzeczka Pologne
22. Décision : Artificielle et Naturelle. Comment et quand l’ordinateur peut aider  Signaux N° 92,1998, http://aae.isep.fr/revue_signaux/92_decision.pdf
23. Le « Knowledge Management », l’organisation des connaissances dans l’entreprise, Université du Conseil en Management 24-25 septembre 1998 Bordeaux
24. Le « Knowledge Management », l’organisation des connaissances dans l’entreprise, pour la conférence de Debra M. Amidon au MENRT 1 octobre 1998
25. From Help Desk to Global Knowledge Management EXPERSYS 98
26. Mémoire d’Entreprise ou l’organisation des connaissances dans l’entreprise (Knowledge Management) ? Bulletin AFIA, janvier 1999
27. E. Mercier-Laurent, J. Jakubczyc, M. Owoc: What is Knowledge Management, KDDB, 1999, Academy of Economics, Wroclaw, Poland
28. A. Lancini, E. Mercier-Laurent Traffic road accidents return on experience. Discovering, organizing and sharing knowledge to minimize risks and costs in a mutual insurance company ISMICK 99
29. E. Mercier-Laurent Mémoire d’Entreprise ou l’organisation des connaissances dans l’entreprise (Knowledge Management) ? Rencontres INTD 23 septembre 1999 sur le thème de la gestion des connaissances, http://www.cnam.fr/instituts/INTD/rencontres/mercierlaurent.html
30. E. Mercier-Laurent : Return of experience as one of component of extended enterprise Kflow, tutorial, PAKeM, 2000, Manchester
31. E. Mercier-Laurent : Le cerveau, outil idéal pour mesurer les bénéfices du knowledge management, Informatiques magazine, n° 103, 2000
32. E. Mercier-Laurent, A. Dourgnon-Hanoune : Projet ATREX, Proposition d’une offre de service d’analyse et de traitement du retour d’expérience Rapport EDF, mars 2000
33. E. Mercier-Laurent Holistic Knowledge Management challenge for multi-strategy machine learning MSL, Guimares, 2000
34. E. Mercier-Laurent , G. Gruz : Adaptation du livre Innovation Strategy for the Knowledge Economy : “Innovation et Management des Connaissances” Editions d’Organisation 2000
35. Knowledge Management et l’IA Atelier sur la Plate-forme AFIA 2001
36. E-learning aux Etats Unis, Faits et tendances octobre 2001 Le rapport disponible sur http://www.educnet.education.fr/inter/bactuinter.htm
37. E. Mercier-Laurent Indexation et recherche automatique de documents audiovisuels, Rapport interne projet Mediaworks, mai 2002
38. Innovation et Management des Connaissances KM Forum Paris, 2002
39. E. Mercier-Laurent L’approche connaissance appliquée au retour d’expérience EGC 2003
40. E. Mercier-Laurent : Organization and processing of “best practice”. Knowledge approach to database creating and exploring, Knowledge Discovery, Turawa 2003
41. D. Boulanger, E. Mercier-Laurent, M. Zaklad Systèmes d’Information, Connaissance et l’Intelligence Artificielle, Dossier Bulletin AFIA, 2003
42. Innovation à partir de connaissances Technologies International (www.adit.fr), 2003
43. Juan Celso Flores, Eunika Mercier-Laurent Schneider Electric, le KM occupe le terrain de sa filiale Merlin Gerin Loire, Veille N° 68, octobre 2003
44. WCC2004 Invited Talk “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow of AI applications Toulouse, 2004
45. E. Mercier-Laurent : From Data Programming to Intelligent Knowledge Processors, Cutter IT Journal december 2004
46. Rapport Nortech, 2004 Education à l’age du numérique sur http://emlkmi.free.fr/tiki-index.php?page=RapPort
47. A. Dourgnon, C. Roche, E. Mercier-Laurent, How to value and transmit nuclear industry long term Knowledge, ICEIS 2005.
48. MERCIER-LAURENT E.  “Improving the Efficiency of the Global Knowledge Management Flow with new generation of AI, Organization and processing of “best practices” Knowledge Acquisition and Management KAM’2005, Zlotniki, Pologne, 2005.
49. E. Mercier-Laurent, P. Saint-Jean Intelligence Artificielle et Image, Dossier, Bulletin AFIA N°60, Juillet 2005
50. KM 15 years after, ISMICK 2005, UTC Compiegne
51. D. Amidon, P. Formica, E. Mercier-Laurent: Knowledge Economics: Emerging Principles, Practices and Policies, Tartu University Press, 2005
52. E. Mercier-Laurent Brain Amplifier for Holistic Knowledge Management using New Generation of AI, ICAI, Beijing 2006
53. E. Mercier-Laurent, Artificial Intelligence and Education, Computer-Human Learning, Queen’s Educational Letter, 2006
54. Rôle de l’ordinateur dans le processus global de l’innovation à partir des connaissances, HDR, 2007
55. The Role of Knowledge Management in The Global Innovation Process, ISMICK 2007
56. Innovation, Knowledge Mangement et Développement Durable, quel avenir ? Dossier Qualitique, décembre 2007
57. Innovation Organisationnelle vue comme une composante de l’innovation globale, Journée de Recherche Innovation Organisationnelle, ESC St Etienne 28 janvier 2008
58. S. du Château, D. Boulanger, E. Mercier-Laurent Hybrid System for the Inventory of the Cultural Heritage using Voice Interface for Knowledge Acquisition, AI 2008, Cambridge
59. S. du Château, D. Boulanger, E. Mercier-Laurent  Voice Knowledge Acquisition System for the Management of Cultural Heritage, IIP 2008, Beijing
60. E. Mercier-Laurent, T. Reyes Ecodesign as a prospective innovation driver for companies, IDMME- Virtual Concept, Beijing, 2008
61. E. Mercier-Laurent, T. Reyes Ecodesign Integration into a Global EcoInnovation Process, IJDE, 2008
62. S. du Château, D. Boulanger, E. Mercier-Laurent  Knowledge Management System for Cultural Patrimony including Voice Interface for Knowledge Acquisition,  AITM 2008, Wroclaw, Poland
63. Zhongzhi Shi, Eunika Mercier-Laurent, David Leake: Intelligent Information Processing IV, 5th IFIP International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing, October 19-22, 2008, Beijing, China Springer 2009
64. KM French cooking, Inside Knowledge, Volume 12, Issue 4, January 2009, pp 24-27, Ark Group Ltd., London
65. Toward to Innovation 4D, chapter in collective book Future of Innovation, Editors Stamm B., Trifilova A., Gower Publishing, 2009, pp. 36-37
66. Eco-activités et Innovation globale, Qualitique janvier-février, 2009
67. “AI in France “chapter in Artificial Intelligence An International Prospective, Editor Bramer M., IFIP, 2009, p 91-111, ISBN 3-542-03225-7
68. Digital ecosystems for the Knowledge Economy, Invited talk MEDES 2009
69. Knowledge Management – French Cooking, VINE: The Journal  of information and knowledge management systems, Vol . 40 N° 3/4/ 2010, pp. 301-311, Emerald Group Publishing,  on invitation of prof Michael Stankosky, George Washington University’s Institute for Knowledge & Innovation
70. Mercier-Laurent E. : Knowledge EcoInnovation, Knowledge Acquisition and Management, Editors Nycz M., Owoc M.L., Publishing House of Wroclaw University of Economics, 2011,p. 183-196, ISSN 1899-3192
71. S. du Château, D. Boulanger, E. Mercier-Laurent  Computer Aided System for Managing Domain Knowledge – application to Cultural Patrimony KMIS 2010, http://www.kmis.ic3k.org/Abstracts/2010/KMIS_2010_Abstracts.htm
72. Mercier-Laurent E. Les Ecosystèmes de l’innovation, Hermès Lavoisier, 2011, 269 p. ISBN 978-2-7462-2117-8
73. Mercier-Laurent E : Innovation Ecosystems, Willey, 2011, 248 p, ISBN 978-1-8421-325-8
74. Mercier-Laurent E. “The Contribution of Information Technology to The Business Success of Today Enterprises”, dans Business Informatics, 21, 2011 p. 48-58 Editor M. Owoc, Publishing House of Wroclaw University of Economics, ISSN 1507-3858.
75. Aupetit M. Mercier-Laurent E. Dossier Intelligence Artificielle Bulletin AFIA N° 72 (in french only)
76. “Understanding and Exploiting Innovation Ecosystems », Innovation Management, http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2011/06/23/understanding-and-exploiting-innovation-ecosystems/
77. The Contribution of Information Technology to The Business Success of Today Enterprises”, dans Business Informatics, 21, 2011 p. 48-58 Editor M. Owoc, avec comité de lecture, Publishing House of Wroclaw University of Economics, ISSN 1507-3858
78. ICT for Future Education,  Sembrando Ideas,  Villarrica, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile , www.sembrando ideas.cl  available on http://issuu.com/villarricauc/docs/n5_2011_sembrando_ideas_r/57
79. Mercier-Laurent E. : Knowledge Management and Innovation, Toulouse Space Show’12, Knowledge Management, 25-28 juin 2012, e-proceedings
80. Mercier-Laurent E. : Organiser et piloter l’Auto-Orientation ? Rôle des chercheurs dans la construction de l’avenir, Colloque Self-Orientation, X-Recherche, 8 décembre 2011, Palaiseau
81. Linskog H., Mercier-Laurent E.: Knowledge Management applied to Electronic Public Procurement, AI4KM workshop IFIP on ECAI 2012, Montpellier. by Springer in 2013
82. Kayakutlu G., Mercier-Laurent E.: From Knowledge Worker to Knowledge Cultivator-Effective Dynamics, FedCSIS, 2012 (IEEE), Wroclaw, Pologne. Les actes en cours de publication.
83. du Château S., Boulanger D., Mercier-Laurent E.: Managing the Domain Knowledge – Application to Cultural Patrimony, “Knowledge Management Research and Practice” Palgrave Journals, 2012, 10, 312–325.
84. S. du Château, D. Boulanger, E. Mercier-Laurent : Approche interdisciplinaire du management des connaissances en patrimoine culturel, IDocumentaliste, Sciences de l’Information, 2012, p. 6-70, vol 49, N° 4
85. Innovation du rêve aux réalités, Veille magazine, Juillet-Aout 2012
86. Zhang F., Rio M., Allais R., Zwolinski P.,Reyes Carillo T.,Roucoules L., Mercier-Laurent, E., Buclet N.: Toward an systemic navigation framework to integrate sustainable developement into the company, Journal of Cleaner Production, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652613002825
87. Mercier-Laurent E. Pachet F. Dossier Créativité et Innovation, Bulletin AFIA N° 78, 2013 à télécharger sur le site AFIA http://www.afia.asso.fr/tiki-list_file_gallery.php?galleryId=1
88. “Culture de l’innovation ou le savoir-innover”, Courrier Cadres N°72, juin 2013, p. 36http://www.courriercadres.com/
89. Innovation Ecosystems: Example of Eco-design Process, Invited talk Fedcsis 2013, Krakow, Poland
90. Les ecosystemes de l’innovation, Documentaliste – Sciences de l’Information, vol 50, N°3, p.10-11, ADBS, 2013
91. Trends and Challenges for Intellectual Capital, Chapter in Intellectual Capital in Organizations: Non-Financial Reports and Accounts”, Routledge, publication en cours
92. Mercier-Laurent E., Innovating Corporate Management: Introducing Environmental  Aspects toDesign Activities, ICICKM, Washington, 2013
93. Managing Intellectual Capital in Knowledge Economy, 2nd AI4KM, Fedcsis, Warsaw, 2014
94. Kayakutlu G., Duzdar I., Mercier-Laurent E., Intelligent Association Rules for Innovative SME Collaboration, 2nd AI4KM, Fedcsis, Warsaw, 2014
95. Mercier-Laurent E.: contribution dans le livre collectif Voices on the Frontier of Knowledge Society en preparation, contribution envoyé, Editors Buonfour A., Edvinsson L, Koch G
96. E. Mercier-Laurent : Innovation Ecosystems, Contribution to Global Innovation Handbook Editor Praveen Gupta, McGraw Hill, publication en cours
97. Boulanger D. Mercier-Laurent E. : Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Management, Proceedings AI4KM Improved papers, IFIP 2012 Springer, 2014 http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-54896-3
98. Le Knowledge Management dans les entreprises et les organisations : une mode ou un réel besoin ? Chapitre dans «Des tabulatrices aux tablettes, Informatique et entreprise » sous la rédaction de Jean Rohmer, Cigref/Nouvis, 2014, p. 297-332
99. Kayakutlu G., Duzdar I., Mercier-Laurent E.: Intelligent Association Rules for Innovative SME Collaboration, KAM & AI4KM, Fedcsis 2014, Warsaw
100. Mercier-Laurent E.: Managing Intellectual Capital in Knowledge Economy, KAM & AI4KM, Fedcsis 2014, Warsaw
101. Mercier-Laurent E. Trends and Challenges for Intellectual Capital, chapter in Intellectual Capital in Organizations: Non-Financial Reports and Accounts”, Routledge, 2014
102. Lannoy A., Mercier-Laurent E., de Miramon B, Obama J.M.: Maitriser la Connaissance pour maitriser les risques, Documentaliste, Sciences de l’Information, N°3, Vol 51, Sept 2014, p.7-9
103. Mercier-Laurent E.: The Innovation Biosphere- Planet and Brains in Digital Era, Wiley, 2015,
104. Mercier-Laurent E.: Artificial Intelligence for Successful Knowledge Flow, 3rd AI4KM, IJCAI 15, Buenos Aires, July 25-31, 2015
105. Mercier-Laurent E: What technology for efficient support of Sustainable Development?, KAM 2015 on Fedscis 2015, September 13–16, 2015. Łódź, Poland, ISBN 978-83-60810-66-8, p.1651-1654
106. Mercier-Laurent E: Artificial Intelligence supporting Innovation eco-systems, Invited talk AAIA, Fedscis 2015
107. Mercier-Laurent E: Sustainable Territorial Development based on Innovative Exploring of Local Talents, Invited talk in Engineering of Territory Sustainability, CS-DC’15, Tempa, Arizona
108. Mercier-Laurent E: Artificial Intelligence supporting Innovation eco-systems, Invited talk AAIA, Fedscis 2015
109. Owoc M.L, Mercier-Laurent E., Boulanger D.: 2nd Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Management, Springer AICT 469, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-28868-0_10
110. Mercier-Laurent E.: Connaissances et maîtrise des risques, Bivi AFNOR, mars, 2016, II 50-31
111. Mercier-Laurent E.: Innovating in ecodesign, 4P Factory Workshop, March 2016
112. Mercier-Laurent E. Innovation Ecosystems and Technology – chapter in Ecosystems and Technology, Editor Cyrus F. Nourani, Apple Academic Press, 2016, http://www.appleacademicpress.com/ecosystems-and-technology-idea-generation-and-content-model-processing/9781771885072
113. Kayakutlu G. , Mercier-Laurent E. Intelligence in Energy, Wiley, 2016https://books.google.fr/books?id=EBDwjgEACAAJ&source=gbs_book_other_versions
114. Knowledge Management and Risk Management in Proceedings of the 2016 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, M. Ganzha, L. Maciaszek, M. Paprzycki (eds). ACSIS, Vol. 8, pages 1369–1373 (2016) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15439/2016F555
115. Preventing and facing new crisis and risks in complex environments, IJMDM, in printing
116. Edvinsson L.,Mercier-Laurent E. – Societal Innovation Outlook with Soft Power, IJKSS, accepted
117. on researchgate https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325391772_Societal_Innovation_Outlook_with_Soft_Power
118. Kayakutlu G., Mercier-Laurent E. Innovation-based Future of Energy, ESCC, 2018
119. Mercier-Laurent E. Artificial Intelligence Overview and impacts, 6th AI4KM on IJCAI 2018, Stockholm
120. Haddad R., Mercier-Laurent E.: Integrated System for students’ Evaluation Using KM Approach, 6th AI4KM, IFIP/IJCAI-19 Workshop, July 13, 2018, Stockholm, Sweden
121. Mercier-Laurent E., Haddad R., Rousseaux F.: Preventing and facing new crisis and risks in complex environments, International Journal of Management and Decision Making, Vol 17, No 2, p. 148-170, 2018, Inderscience
122. Mercier-Laurent E., Boulanger D.: Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Management, 4th IFIP WG12.6 International Workshop held at IJCAI 2016, Springer IFIP AICT 518, 2018
123.  Mercier-Laurent E., Kayakutlu G.: Energy Future: Innovation based on Time, Synergy and Innovation Factors, chapter in Energy Management —Collective and Computational Intelligence with Theory and Applications, Eds Kahraman C., Kayakutlu G. pages 545-554, 2018, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-75690-5
124. Zhongzhi S., Mercier-Laurent E., Juyong L. (Eds) Intelligent Information Processing,  Proceedings, Springer AICT 538, 10th  IFIP TC12 International Conference, IIP2018, Nanning, China, October 19-22, 2018
125. Haddad R. Mercier-Laurent E.: Decision Support Systems Aiming in Reducing Globalization Burdens in Education, HEAD’19, 5th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’19) Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, 2019, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/HEAd19.2019.94
126.  Monsone C., Josvai J. and Mercier-Laurent E.: The overview of Digital twins in Industry 4.0 – managing the whole ecosystem, KMIS 2019, Vienne 17-19 septembre
127.  Mercier-Laurent E. Verdejo D. : Video surveillance as a component of a global security system, accepté IC3K KMIS 2019
128.  Mercier-Laurent E., Monsone C.: Ecosystems of Industry 4.0 – combining technology and human powers, MEDES 2019, 12-14 novembre, 2019
129. Nada Matta, Tatiana Reyes Carrillo, Eunika Mercier-Laurent, Danielle Boulanger. Special issue: knowledge engineering and management applied to sustainability and innovation. AI EDAM, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019, 33 (02), pp.114-116. ⟨10.1017/S0890060419000167⟩. ⟨hal-02271539⟩
130. CristinaR. Monsone, Eunika Mercier-Laurent and Josvai Janos: Overview of Digital Twins in Industry 4.0: Managing the Whole Ecosystem.In Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management – Volume 3: KMIS, ISBN 978-989-758-382-7, pages 271-276. DOI: 10.5220/0008348202710276
131. Future of AI and AI for Future, Chapter in “Unimagined futures – ICT opportunities and challenges”, Springer AICT 555, Ed Leon Strous, 2020, https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030642457