Imen BOUDALI received the B.Sc degree in computer science applied to management and the MSc degree in modeling from the University of Tunis, Tunisia, in 2002 and 2004, respectively. She also obtained the PhD degree in computer science from the National School of Computer Sciences (ENSI) in December 2009. She worked for six years as an attached researcher within the research Lab SOIE (Strategies of Optimization of Information and Knowledge), Tunisia. Actually, she is a postdoctoral researcher at ENSI-Tunisia and she is an Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences in the University of Tunis-ElManar where she was a member of the scientific council. Her current research interests include: Multi-agent Systems, planning and scheduling problems, multi-objective optimization, multi-criteria decision aid, metaheuristics and their applications. Since 2004, she published several papers in well-ranked journals and conferences of Artificial Intelligences (Elsevier, Francis & Taylor, IOS Press). She also serves as reviewer for several conferences such as IEEE ICALT, ATT of AAMAS, ASCI and some journals such as JORS.