On December 11th, 2013, Willy Picard, PhD habil., participated in the defence of the doctoral dissertation entitled "Towards Bridging the Gap Between Representation and Formalism in the Context of Systems Life Cycle Management Processes", presented by Eric Simon at the Institut du Management de l'Information, Université de Neuchâtel on December 11th 2013. Dr. habil. Willy Picard served as an external reviewer of this dissertation. Congratulations to Dr. Eric Simon for his PhD. degree obtained with the mention "Très bien".