Pascal FrancqPascal Francq earned his Master’s degree in applied science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in 1996 and his PhD in 2003. From 2003 until 2008, he held the chair in information systems and in digital information at the ULB. He decide to qui due to the lack of time and resources for its research activities, and join a research project at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL). His main research topic is the Internet: its technologies, its social aspects and its support as a knowledge sharing platform. Since 1998, he has been working on automatic communities detection. He is the main contributor of the open source platform GALILEI and is currently involved in research on XML document clustering and semi-automatic thesaurus building. He founded in 2009 the Paul Otlet Institute, an independent research center in information science. Read More Read Less