Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

General chair, scientific chair

• A. Dandoush was co-chair of the International Workshop on Physics Inspired Paradigms in Wireless Communications and Networks (Physcomnet 2015, Mumbai, India).

• S. Alouf and A. Jean-Marie are the general chairs of the 13th SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP PERFORMANCE 2016, Antibes Juan-les-Pins, France).

Member of the organizing committees

• E. Altman was in the steering committee and an advisor in the organizing committee of 13th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2015, Mumbai, India).

Scientific events selection

Member of the conference program committees

Maestro members were in the TPC of the following events (in alphabetical order):

• 10th ACM MobiCom Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS 2015, Paris, France) (G. Neglia)

• 11th Advanced Intl. Conference on Telecommunications (AICT 2015, Brussels, Belgium) (K. Avrachenkov);

• IEEE ICC Workshop on Dynamic Social Networks (DySON 2015, London, UK), (K. Avrachenkov).

• 35th IEEE Intl. Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2016, San Francisco, USA) (G. Neglia)

• 7th IEEE Intl. Workshop on Network Science for Communication Networks (IEEE NetSciCom 2015, Hong Kong, PRC) (K. Avrachenkov, G. Neglia);

• 15th Intl. Conference on Next Generation Wired/Wireless Networking (NEW2AN 2015, St. Petersburg, Russia) (K. Avrachenkov);

• 9th Intl. Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (VALUETOOLS 2015, Berlin, Germany) (K. Avrachenkov, G. Neglia)

• 30th Intl. Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2015, London, UK) (A. Jean-Marie);

• 13th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2015, Mumbai, India), (K. Avrachenkov);

• 8th Intl. Workshop on Multiple Access Communications (MACOM 2015, Helsinki, Finland) (K. Avrachenkov);

• Intl. Workshop on Physics Inspired Paradigms in Wireless Communications and Networks (Physcomnet 2015, Mumbai, India) (A. Jean-Marie);

• Musimorphoses (Paris, France)) (E. Altman);

• 12th Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph (WAW 2015, Eindhoven, The Netherlands) (K. Avrachenkov);

• 17th Workshop on Mathematical Performance Modeling and Analysis (MAMA 2015, Portland, Oregon, USA) (A. Jean-Marie, P. Nain).

Reviewer

The members of the team reviewed numerous papers for numerous international conferences.

Journal

Member of editorial boards (list in alphabetical order of journal name)

• Performance Evaluation (PEVA) (P. Nain Editor-in-Chief since 1 January 2008).

• ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (ToMPECS) (K. Avrachenkov since 2015).

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

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

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

• IEEE/ACM Transactions 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 - Reviewing activities (list in alphabetical order of journal name)

• Computer Communications (COMCOM) (S. Alouf);

• Computers in Industrial Engineering (A. Jean-Marie);

• IEEE Trans. on Control of Network Systems (TCNS) (A. Reiffers-Masson);

• IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing (TMC) (G. Neglia);

• Mathematical Problems in Engineering (A. Jean-Marie);

• Performance Evaluation (PEVA) (J. K. Sreedharan);

• Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM) (A. Reiffers-Masson);

Invited talks

Maestro members gave the following invited talks (in alphabetical order):

A Markovian queueing system for modeling a smart green base station, in the series “séminaire Fondation HEC”, Gerad, Montréal, Canada, 13 October 2015, (A. Jean-Marie);

Extremes and Random Walks in Network Sampling Processes, seminar at Yandex, Russia, 13 May 2015 (K. Avrachenkov);

Game models in epidemics in networks seminar at Telecom SudParis on 22 October 2015 (E. Altman);

Game Theory and Online Social Network seminar at NYU, New York, USA, August 2015 (A. Reiffers-Masson);

Graph-based Semi-supervised Learning Methods, seminar at IIT Mumbai, India, 4 March 2015 (K. Avrachenkov);

Modeling with Markov chains: the MARMOTE software, UCN@Sophia Labex seminar, 3 September 2015 (A. Jean-Marie);

On the convergence of the Rolling Horizon procedure, 2nd 2015 Meeting of the COS working group of the GdR RO, Paris, 3 December 2015 (A. Jean-Marie).

Leadership within the scientific community

• E. Altman is a fellow member of IEEE (Class of 2010).

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

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 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);

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

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

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

P. Nain

• has been Chairman of Inria's Evaluation Committee from 1 September 2012 to 31 August 2015 (http://www.inria.fr/en/institute/organisation/committees/evaluation-committee ).

G. Neglia

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

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

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

• CLFP: Training Committee (S. Alouf, since November 2014);

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

• MASTIC: a commission in charge of popularization and regional and internal scientific animation (S. Alouf, from November 2011 until December 2015);

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

Maestro members are in charge of the following tasks for the research center and the project-team:

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

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