Richard Chbeir received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of INSA DE LYON-FRANCE in 2001 and then his Habilitation degree in 2010 from the University of Bourgogne. He is currently a Full Professor in the Computer Science Department in IUT de Bayonne in Anglet France. His current research interests are in the areas of multimedia information retrieval, XML and RSS Similarity, access control models, and digital ecosystems. Richard Chbeir has published in international journals, books, and conferences, and has served on the program committees of several international conferences. He is currently the Chair of the French Chapter ACM SIGAPP and the head of the LIUPPA. Richard Chbeir teaches several courses in the Computer Science Department of the University of Pau University in Anglet-France.