Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

Member of the organizing committee

Pierre L'Ecuyer was a member of the following groups:

• Steering Committee for the IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods (biennial conference), since 2009.

• Steering Committee for the International Conference on Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing, since 2006.

• Selection committee for the INFORMS Simulation Society Distinguished Service Award, 2012-2015.

G. Rubino and B. Tuffin are members of the Steering Committee of the International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation (RESIM).

Scientific events selection

Chair of conference program committee

• Bruno Sericola served as Program Chair of ASMTA 2014, 21th International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications, Budapest, Hungary, July 2014.

• Adlen Ksentini served as Technical Program Committee Chair of the 3rd IEEE Workshop on Telecommunication Standards: From Research to Standards, hold in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2014.

Member of the conference program committee

Bruno Sericola served in the Program Committee of the following conferences:

• MACOM 2014, 7th International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications, Halmstad, Sweden, 27-28 August 2014.

• ACCESS 2014, 5th International Conference on Access Networks, Seville, Spain, 22-26 June 2014.

Pierre L'Ecuyer was a member of the program committee of the following events:

• SIMULTECH'2014: International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications, Vienna, Austria, Aug. 2014.

• MCQMC'2014: Eleventh International Conference on Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing, Leuven, Belgium, April 2014.

• ICORES'2014: International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, Angers, France, March 2014.

Adlen Ksentini was a member of the program committee of the following events:

• IEEE ICC 2014 Adhoc and Sensors and Wireless Networks Symposium, Sydney, Australia 2014.

• IEEE Globecom 2014 Adhoc and Sensors Symposium, Austin, USA 2014.

• IEEE WCNC 2014, Istanbul, Turkey 2014.

Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul was a member of the program committee of the following events:

• IEEE ICC 2014, Adhoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, Sydney, Australia 2014.

• IEEE Globecom 2014, Wireless networking Symposium, Austin, USA 2014.

• IEEE WCNC 2014, Mobile and Wireless Networks track, Istanbul, Turkey 2014.

• IEEE ICNC 2014, Wireless Ad hoc and sensor networks symposium, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Bruno Tuffin was a member of the program committee of the following events:

• 3rd Workshop on Smart Data Pricing (SDP 2014), Workshop of IEEE INFOCOM 2014, Toronto, Canada, May 2, 2014.

• 2014 ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (ACM SIGSIM PADS 2014), Denver, Colorado, USA, May 18-21, 2014.

• RAWNET/WNC3 2014 - 10th International Workshop on Resource Allocation, Cooperation and Competition in Wireless Networks, Hammamet, Tunisia, June 2014.

• W-PIN+NetEcon 2014: The joint Workshop on Pricing and Incentives in Networks and Systems, Austin, TX, USA, in conjunction with ACM SIGMETRICS.

• Workshop on QoE-centric Network and Application Management (QoENAM 2014), co-located with the IEEE ICC 2014 conference, Sydney, Australia, June 2014.

• 10eme Atelier de performance, Sophia Antipolis, France, 11-13 Juin 2014.

• 10th International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation (RESIM 2014), August 27-29, 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

• 4th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH), Vienna, Austria, 2-4 September 2014.

Gerardo Rubino was a member of the program committee of the following events:

• Networking 2014: IFIP Networking 2014 Conference, Trondheim, Norway, Jun 2–4

• Resim 2014: 10th International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Aug 27–29, 2014.

• QEST 2014: 11th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems, Florence, Italy, Sep 8–12, 2014.

• CLEI 2014: XL Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática (Latin-American Informatics Conference), Montevideo, Uruguay, Sep 15–19, 2014.

Journal

Member of the editorial board

Adlen Ksentini was guest editor for the Special Issue in IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine on Research & Standards: Leading the Evolution of Telecom Network Architectures.

Bruno Sericola is an associate editor for the following journals:

• Open Operational Research Journal.

• International Journal of Stochastic Analysis.

• IISRN Probability and Statistics.

Bruno Tuffin is an associate editor for the following journals:

• INFORMS Journal on Computing, since 2007.

• Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, since November 2008.

• ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, since July 2009.

Pierre L'Ecuyer is an associate editor for the following journals:

• ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, since August 2004.

• Statistics and Computing (Springer-Verlag), since June 2003.

• International Transactions in Operational Research, since May 2007.

• Cryptography and Communications - Discrete Structures, Boolean Functions and Sequences (Springer-Verlag), since December 2006.

Reviewer

Bruno Tuffin has reviewed papers in 2014 for Operations Research, Telecommunication Systems, IEEE Transaction on Reliability, IEEE/ACM Transaction on Networking, Annals of Telecoms, International Transaction in Operational Research, etc. Bruno Tuffin was also a reviewer in 2014 for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and for CIFRE contracts (France).

César Viho has reviewed project proposals for the ANR and for CIFRE contracts for the ANRT. He has reviewed papers for the journals IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communication, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Communications, IEEE Communications Magazine, and for the following international conferences: IWCNC'14, Globecom'14, ICTSS'14, VTC Fall 2014.

Adlen Ksentini has reviewed papers in 2014 for Transaction Paralel Distributed Systems-TPDS, Transaction on Wireless Communication - TWC, Transaction on Vehicular Technology - TVT, Wireless Communication Magazine, Elsevier Computer Communication.

Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul has reviewed papers in 2014 for Transaction on Vehicular Technology-TVT, Wireless Communication Magazine, Elsevier Computer Communication and for the following international conferences: Globecom'14, ICC'14, WCNC'14.

Gerardo Rubino has reviewed papers for IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Neural Computation, Journal of Applied Probability, Networking 2014, XL Latin American Computing Conference (CLEI 2014), Latin American Symposium on Computing and Society, 11th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST 2014).

Seminar and talks

• W. Chan, G. Koole, and P. L'Ecuyer, “Dynamic Call Routing Policies Using Call Waiting Times and Agent Idle Times”, The Optimization Days, Montreal, May 2014.

• N. Chapados and P. L'Ecuyer, “Hierarchical Bayesian State-Space Model for Call Center Arrival Rate Forecasting”, The Optimization Days, Montreal, May 2014.

• R. Ibrahim, P. L'Ecuyer, H. Shen, “Service Times in Call Centers: A Data-Based Perspective”, INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Nov. 2014.

• P. L'Ecuyer, “Challenges in Stochastic Modeling of Service Systems: Illustrations with Call Centers”, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Nov. 2014.

• P. L'Ecuyer, Discussion of 2014 Markov Lecture of Peter W. Glynn: “Perspectives on Traffic Modeling”, INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Nov. 2014.

• P. L'Ecuyer, “Challenges in Stochastic Modeling of Call Centers”, Ecole Centrale de Paris, Châtenay-Malabry, France, June 2014.

• P. L'Ecuyer, “Multiple Streams of Random Numbers for Parallel Computers: Design and Implementation”, Centre d'Energie Atomique (CEA), Saclay, France, June 2014.

• P. L'Ecuyer, “Challenges in Stochastic Modeling of Service Systems: Illustrations with Call Centers”, invited plenary talk, 10th Workshop on Performance Evaluation (AEP 2014), Inria Sophia-Antipolis, France, June 2014.

• P. L'Ecuyer, “On the Distribution of Integration Error with Randomly-Shifted Lattice Rules”, invited talk, Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 2014.

• P. L'Ecuyer, “Static Network Reliability Estimation Under the Marshall-Olkin Copula”, School of Mathematics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Feb. 2014.

• M. Pelleau, L.-M, Rousseau, P. L'Ecuyer, and L. Delorme, “Agent Scheduling from Forecasts of Future Call Arrivals at Hydro-Quebec Call Centers”, The Optimization Days, Montreal, May 2014.

• G. Rubino and B. Tuffin. “Introduction to Monte Carlo methods”. One-day course/seminar at ALSTOM, France, May 2014.

• N. Stier-Moses, P. L'Ecuyer, P. Maillé, and B. Tuffin, “Revenue-Maximizing Rankings for Online Platforms with Quality-Sensitive Consumers”, Yahoo Inc., June 2014.

• T. A. Ta, P. L'Ecuyer, and F. Bastin, “Staffing Optimization with Chance Constraints in Call Centers”, The Optimization Days, Montreal, May 2014.

• M. Thiongane and P. L'Ecuyer, “Waiting Time Prediction in Multiskill Call Centers with Callback Options”, The Optimization Days, Montreal, May 2014.

• B. Tuffin. “La neutralité du Net.” Tr@nspolo: transparence politique et organisationnelle dans les sociétés numériques, Avignon, July 2014.

• B. Tuffin. “Importance Sampling and variance reduction techniques”. Summer school on Modeling and Numerical Methods for Uncertainty Quantification (MNMUQ 2014), Porquerolles Island, France, 1-5 September 2014.

• A. Ksentini, “Quand les réseaux mobiles rencontrent le Cloud”, au Laboratoire LIF de Marseille, Mars 2014.

• G. Rubino, “Analyzing rare events with Monte Carlo: advanced methods”, Center for Uncertainty Quantification, Annual Workshop, Kaust, Saudi-Arabia, January 8, 2014.

• G. Rubino, “New developments around PSQA”, at the Applied Science and Technology Research Institute, Hong Kong, June 17, 2014

• G. Rubino, “Discrete Event Simulation: generalities and the particular case of rare event analysis”, in CSS'2014: the 3rd International Cybernetics Summer School, Ostrava, Czech Republic, June 2014.

• G. Rubino, “Automatic measuring of perceptual quality on the Internet”, plenary talk at the First International Congress on Telematics, Computing and Communications (CITELC 2014), Mexico DF, Mexico, August 23, 2014.

• G. Rubino, “Monte Carlo y los eventos raros (Monte Carlo and rare events)”, in the 3rd International AMMA Workshop, Technical University Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile, December 2, 2014.

Managing research activities

• Bruno Sericola is responsible for the Inria Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique budget.

• Bruno Sericola is a member of the Inria Evaluation Committee which role is to assess the calibre of research conducted at Inria and to guarantee the quality of its hiring and internal promotions.

• Bruno Sericola is the leader of the research group MAPI (Math Appli Pour l'Info) the goal of which is to improve the collaboration between computer scientists and mathematicians.

• Adlen Ksentini was elected as secretary of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Software.

• Adlen Ksentini was elected as secretary of the IEEE ComSoc France Section.

• R. Marie and G. Rubino are members of the IFIP WG 7.3 (Working Group in Computer Performance Modeling and Analysis).

• Gerardo Rubino is a member of the Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications of IEEE.

• G. Rubino has been appointed as the Inria representative at the Scientific Committee of the IFCAM (Indo-French Center for Applied Mathematics), a joint international unit between Indian Ministry of Science and Technology and several French institutions including CNRS, Inria, École Polytechnique, École Normale Supéieure, Inria, Nice Sophia Antipolis University and University of Toulouse III.

• Gerardo Rubino is a member of the Research Commission of TELECOM Bretagne (advisory board for the research activities of the institution).

• Gerardo Rubino is a member of the CSV (Selection and Validation Committee) of the “Images et Réseaux” (Images and networks) cluster in the French Brittany Region. The cluster includes most companies and academic institutions working in networking and in image-based applications in Western France.

• César Viho is deputy director of the MATISSE (Mathematics, Electronics and Computer Sciences) doctoral school in charge of managing the recruitment of PhD students and their activities during their doctorate, in all the concerned areas of the doctoral school.