Dr Buche received the PhD degree in computer science from Rennes University, France, in 1990 and the qualified Senior Researcher diploma (HDR) from Paris-Saclay University, France, in 2007. He has been assistant professor with AgroParisTech, Paris from 1992 to 2002 and a research engineer with INRAE, Agricultural Research Institute since 2002. His research works mainly concern data and knowledge integration from heterogeneous sources, multi-criteria, multi-stakeholders’ decision support system design based on structured and weakly structured databases, with applied projects in food and bio based product engineering.

Presentation title : “How knowledge engineering and Artificial intelligence support evolutions in agro-resource processing sectors?”