Claudine Métral

Assistant Professor, University of Geneva, Faculty of economics and social sciences, department Hautes études commerciales, institute Knowledge engineering (ICLE)

Centre for Computer Science (CUI)
Site de Battelle, Bâtiment A, bureau 413 (3e étage)
7, rte de Drize, CH-1227 Carouge, Suisse/Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 379 07 26 (direct) +41 22 379 01 02 (secretariat)
Fax: +41 22 379 02 33
email: claudine.metral@unige.ch

Research activities

My research interests are in the fields of knowledge representation and 3D city models and include:

• the contribution of ontologies for integrating heterogeneous urban data and information or interconnecting urban models with 3D city models
• the visualization of enriched 3D city models.  

Further information (publications, projets, ...) on the Knowledge Engineering wiki.

• Métral C., Ghoula N., Falquet G. An ontology of 3D visualization techniques for enriched 3D city models, Conf. 3u3d2012: Usage, Usability, and Utility of 3D City models, 29-31 October 2012, Nantes, France, forthcoming
• Métral C., Ghoula N., Falquet G. Towards an integrated visualization of semantically enriched 3D city models: an ontology of 3D visualization techniques, Workshop 3D issues in urban and environmental systems, 12-13 April 2012, Madrid, Spain, http://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.6609v2.pdf
• G. Falquet, C. Métral, J. Teller, C. Tweed (Eds.) (2011) Ontologies in Urban Development Projects. Springer
• Métral C., Cutting-Decelle A.-F. (2011) Ontologies for interconnecting urban models. In Ontologies in Urban Development Projects. G. Falquet, C. Métral, J. Teller, C. Tweed (Eds.). Springer-Verlag,
• Métral C., Billen R., Cutting-Decelle A.F., Van Ruymbeke M. (2010). Ontology-based approaches for improving the interoperability between 3D urban models. In FormaMente, International Research Journal on Digital Future, 1-2(V), 85-111
• Bazargan K., Falquet G. and Métral C. 2010. Testing the Usability of Information Visualization Techniques in Interactive 3D Virtual Environments: a Toolkit. In Proceedings of IADIS International Conference Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2010 (Freiburg, Germany 28 - 30 July 2010). [Outstanding Paper Award]
  
• Métral C., Billen R., Cutting-Decelle A.F., Van Ruymbeke M. (2010). Ontology-based approaches for improving the interoperability between 3D urban models, ITcon, Vol.15, Special Issue: Bringing urban ontologies into practice, 169-184, http://www.itcon.org/cgi-bin/works/Show?2010_14
• Bazargan, K., Falquet, G., and Métral, C. 2009. Une infrastructure d'évaluation pour des techniques de représentation de l'information non-géométrique dans les environnements virtuels 3D. In Proceedings of the 21st international Conference on Association Francophone D'interaction Homme-Machine (Grenoble, France, October 13 - 16, 2009). IHM '09. ACM, New York, NY, 151-154, http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1629826.1629849
  
• Métral, C., Falquet, G., Cutting-Decelle, A. F. Towards Semantically Enriched 3D City Models: an Ontology-Based Approach. In proc. of the GeoWeb conf., Vancouver, Canada, 2009. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, http://www.isprs.org/publications/archives.aspx
  
• Métral C., Falquet G. and Karatzas K. Ontologies for the Integration of Air Quality Models and 3D City Models. In Conceptual Models for Practitioners, J. Teller, C. Tweed, G. Rabino (Eds.), Società Editrice Esculapio, Bologna, 2008, http://cui.unige.ch/isi/reports/2008/AirQuality-and-3DCM.pdf
  
• Metral, C., Falquet, G., Karatzas, K. (2007) Ontologies for the Integration of Air Quality Models and 3D City Models. In proc. 2nd Workshop on Urban Ontologies for an improved communication in urban civil engineering projects, Turin, http://cui.unige.ch/isi/reports/2007AirQuality-and-UrbanPlanning_v3.pdf
• Métral C., Falquet G. and Vonlanthen M. (2007). An Ontology-based System for Urban Planning Communication. In Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI) 61, 61-72, Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg http://cui.unige.ch/isi/reports/2007/metral-c21.pdf
• Grangel R., Métral C., Cutting-Decelle A.F., Bourey J.P. and Young R.I.M. (2007) Ontology Based Communications through Model Driven Tools: Feasibility of the MDA Approach in Urban Engineering Projects. In Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI) 61, 181-196, Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg
• Falquet G., Métral C. (2005) Integrating Urban Knowledge into 3D City Models. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Next Generation 3D City Models, Bonn, Germany, 21-22 June 2005

Teaching

• Knowledge engineering, course of MSc. in Management/Information systems and services science
• Methods and tools for transdisciplinary services, course of MSc. in Managment/Information systems and services science
• SPACE-City: Modèles urbains 3D, course of MSc in Environmental sciences
• Modélisation des bases de données spatiales, course for Certificate of geomatics