Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

General chair, scientific chair

• 7th Intl. Conference on Network Games, Control and Optimization (NETGCOOP 2014, Trento, Italy) (E. Altman as steering committee chair);

• 8th Intl. Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (VALUETOOLS 2014, Bratislava, Slovakia) (E. Altman as steering committee co-chair);

• 2nd IEEE Intl. Workshop on Self-Organizing Networks (SONETS 2014, Istanbul, Turkey) (M. Haddad as workshop co-chair);

• 10ème Atelier en Evaluation de Performances (AEP10, Sophia Antipolis, France) (S. Alouf and A. Jean-Marie) [76] .

Member of the organizing committee

• 33rd IEEE Intl. Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2014, Toronto, Canada) (G. Neglia as publicity chair);

• 32nd Intl. Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements and Evaluation (IFIP WG 7.3 Performance 2014, Turin, Italy) (P. Nain as steering committee member);

• 12th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2014, Hammamet, Tunisia) (E. Altman as steering committee member);

• 10ème Atelier en Evaluation de Performances (AEP10, Sophia Antipolis, France) (J. K. Sreedharan).

Scientific events selection

Chair of the conference program committee

• 2nd IEEE Intl. Workshop on Self-Organizing Networks (SONETS 2014, Istanbul, Turkey) (M. Haddad as workshop co-chair);

• 12th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2014, Hammamet, Tunisia) (M. Haddad as co-PC chair).

Member of the conference program committee (list in alphabetical order of event name)

• 9th ACM Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS 2014, Maui, Hawaii, USA) (G. Neglia);

• 10th Advanced Intl. Conference on Telecommunications (AICT 2014, Paris, France) (K. Avrachenkov);

• 34th IEEE Intl. Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2015, Hong Kong) (G. Neglia);

• 6th IEEE Intl. Workshop on Network Science for Communication Networks (IEEE NetSciCom 2014, Toronto, Canada) (K. Avrachenkov, G. Neglia);

• IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (MSC 2014, Nice/Antibes, France) (M. El Chamie);

• 5th Intl. Conference on Access Networks (ACCESS 2015, Seville, Spain) (K. Avrachenkov);

• 8th Intl. Conference on Game Theory and Management (GTM 2014, St. Petersburg, Russia) (E. Altman);

• 7th Intl. Conference on Network Games, Control and Optimization (NETGCOOP 2014, Trento, Italy) (K. Avrachenkov, M. Haddad);

• 5th Intl. Conference on Next Generation Networks and Services (NGNS 2014, Casablanca, Morocco) (M. Haddad);

• 14th Intl. Conference on Next Generation Wired/Wireless Networking (NEW2AN 2014, St. Petersburg, Russia) (K. Avrachenkov);

• 8th Intl. Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (VALUETOOLS 2014, Bratislava, Slovakia) (S. Alouf, K. Avrachenkov, M. Haddad, G. Neglia);

• 29th Intl. Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2014, Krakow, Poland) (A. Jean-Marie);

• 32nd Intl. Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements and Evaluation (IFIP WG 7.3 Performance 2014, Turin, Italy) (S. Alouf);

• 16th Intl. Symposium of Dynamic Games (ISDG 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) (E. Altman);

• 7th Intl. Workshop on Multiple Access Communications (MACOM 2014, Halmstad, Sweden) (K. Avrachenkov);

• Networking and Electronic Commerce Research Conference (NAEC 2014, Trieste, Italy) (E. Altman);

• 1st Symposium on the Control of Network Systems (SCONES 2014, Boston, Massachusetts, USA) (E. Altman);

• 11th Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph (WAW 2014, Beijing, China) (K. Avrachenkov);

• Workshop on Cooperative and Cognitive Networks (Nicosia, Cyprus) (M. Haddad);

• 16th Workshop on Mathematical Performance Modeling and Analysis (MAMA 2014, Austin, Texas, USA) (A. Jean-Marie, P. Nain).

Journal

Editor-in-chief

• Performance Evaluation (PEVA) (P. Nain since 1 January 2008).

Member of the editorial board (list in alphabetical order of journal name)

• Dynamic Games and Applications (DGAA) (E. Altman since 2011);

• Elsevier Computer Communications (COMCOM) (G. Neglia since 2014);

• IEEE Transaction on Control of Networks (TCNS) (E. Altman since 2013);

• IEEE/ACM Transaction on Networking (ToN) (E. Altman since 2013);

• Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (JEDC) (E. Altman since 2001);

• Performance Evaluation (PEVA) (K. Avrachenkov since 2008).

Reviewer (list in alphabetical order of journal name)

• Computer Communications (COMCOM) (S. Alouf, G. Neglia);

• Computer Networks (COMNET) (E. Altman, K. Avrachenkov, A. Dandoush, I. Dimitriou, G. Neglia);

• Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks (ADHOC) (G. Neglia);

• EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (JWCN) (M. Haddad);

• IEEE Communications Magazine (COMMAG) (M. Haddad);

• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) (M. Haddad);

• IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control (TAC) (G. Neglia);

• IEEE Trans. on Communications (TCOM) (M. Haddad);

• IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS) (G. Neglia);

• IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) (G. Neglia);

• IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology (TVT) (M. Haddad);

• IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications (TWC) (M. Haddad);

• Performance Evaluation (PEVA) (G. Neglia).

Leadership within the scientific community

• E. Altman is a fellow member of IEEE (Class of 2010). The society of dynamic games attributes in July 2014 the Isaacs Award to E. Altman for his research on game theory. (Award attributed once every two years.)

• E. Altman, A. Jean-Marie and P. Nain are (elected) members of IFIP WG7.3 on “Computer System Modeling”.

• P. Nain has been the vice-Chair of the IFIP WG7.3 working group on “Computer System Modeling” (from 30 June 2007 to 21 july 2014).

Research administration

E. Altman

• is co-responsible of one of the five themes of the SFR (Structure Fédérative de Recherche) AGORANTIC (in which Inria is a founding member) entitled “Digital Culture and Virtual Societies.”

• is Scientific coordinator of the European project CONGAS.

K. Avrachenkov

• together with Arnaud Legout (Diana team) and Fabien Gandon (Wimmics team) is co-responsible of the multi-disciplinary research theme (Action Transversale) “Semantic and Complex Networks” at Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée.

A. Jean-Marie

• is the scientific coordinator of Inria activities in Montpellier (since 2008); as part of this duty, he represents Inria in the Scientific Board of the Univ. of Montpellier 2, at the Scientific Council of the Doctoral School “Sciences and Agrosciences” of the Univ. of Avignon, at the Regional Conference of Research Organisms (CODOR), at the Regional Consulting Committee for Research and Technological Development (ARAGO Committee);

• was member of the managing sub-committee of the Project-Team Committee of the Inria Sophia Antipolis – Méditerranée research center (July 2010 – August 2014);

• is a member of the Steering Committee of the GDR RO , a national research initiative on Operations Research sponsored by the Cnrs ;

• is president of the Technical and Industrial Orientation Council for Information Technologies (COSTI TIC) of the Transferts LR association (since 2009);

• is Head of project-team Maestro since October 2014.

P. Nain

• is Chairman of Inria's Evaluation Committee since 1 September 2012 (http://www.inria.fr/en/institute/organisation/committees/evaluation-committee ); as part of this duty he has presided the 2014 recruitment committees for senior Inria researchers (DR2, DR1) and for junior Inria researchers (CR1).

• was Head of project-team Maestro (September 2003 – September 2014).

G. Neglia

• is the scientific delegate for European partnerships for Inria Sophia Antipolis – Méditerranée;

• was member of the recruitment committee for a Maître de Conférences position at Univ. of Avignon.

Maestro members are in the following committees of Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée

• CC (Comité de Centre): General Information Commission (G. Neglia since September 2013);

• CSD: Doctoral Committee (S. Alouf, since February 2006);

• NICE: Invited Researchers Committee (K. Avrachenkov, since 2010);

and in charge of the following tasks for the research center:

• Supervision and validation of the project-teams' yearly activity reports (K. Avrachenkov, since 2010);

• Accounting for the monthly Project-Team Committee meetings (S. Alouf, February 2012 – August 2014);

• Organizing Maestro internal meetings (J. K. Sreedharan, since November 2013).