Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

General chair, scientific chair

• Luciana Arantes was scientific co-chair of the 16th Simposio em Sistemas Computacionais de Alto Desempenho

• Pierre Sens was general-chair of EDCC 2015 conference.

Member of the organizing committees

• Luciana Arantes was organisation chair of EDCC 2015 conference.

• Sébastien Monnet was finance chair for EDCC 2015 conference.

• Franck Petit is member of the steering committee of SSS (International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems) conference.

• Pierre Sens is member of the steering committee of SBAC-PAD (International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing) conference.

• Marc Shapiro is a member of the Steering Committee of the Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data (PaPoC).

• Marc Shapiro is a member of the Steering Committee of the Int. Conf. on the Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS).

Scientific events selection

Chair of conference program committees

• Marc Shapiro chairs the 2016 Franco-American Doctoral Exchange Programme (FADEx).

Member of the conference program committees

• Luciana Arantes was a PC member of the 15th IFIP Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems Conference (DAIS 2015); The 26th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2015); the 17th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2015); The 14th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2015); The 27th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2015); The Eighth International Conference on Dependability (DEPEND 2015).

• Swan Dubois was member of the program committee of 17th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2015).

• Sébastien Monnet is PC member of 30th and 31st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing - track Operating Systems (SAC 2015 and 2016); French conference on parallelism, architecture and system (Compas 2015); 14th workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames 2015) and 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2016).

• Pierre Sens was member of the program committee of 4rd IEEE/SAE International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE 2015); Europar 2015; 30th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'2016).

• Marc Shapiro was a member of the External Programme Committee for the Int. Conf. on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2016).

• Marc Shapiro is PC member of W. on Planetary-Scale Distributed Systems (W-PSDS) 2015; member of the Middleware 2015 conference.

Reviewer

• Swan Dubois reviewed papers for the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2015), the International Conference on Networked Systems (NETYS 2015), and the Rencontres Francophones sur les Aspects Algorithmiques de Télécommunications (AlgoTel 2015).

• Sébastien Monnet was external reviewer for the 30th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2016).

Journal

Member of the editorial boards

• Franck Petit was invited editor with Michel Raynal for a special issue on Distributed Computing into TCS (Journal of Theoretical Computer Science)—Vol. 561. Also, he belongs to the editorial board of the Scientific World Journal and the Journal of Discrete Mathematics.

• Pierre Sens is associated editor of International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN).

Reviewer - Reviewing activities

• Luciana Arantes reviewed papers for the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC).

• Swan Dubois reviewed papers for the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Computer Networks (COMNET), and Theoretical Computer Science (TCS).

• Sébastien Monnet reviewed a paper for the IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems (TPDS 2016).

Invited talks

Pierre Sens gave the following invited talks:

• ICL Innovative Computing Laboratory - University of Tennessee, October 2015

• Maimonide seminar - Herzilya, Israel, November 2015.

Marc Shapiro gave the following invited talks:

• Royal Holloway London University, May 2015.

• Universidade Nova de Lisboa, May 2015.

• W. on Chemistry of Concurrent and Distributed Programming II, Agadir, Morocco, May 2015.

• CurryOn, Prague, July 2015.

• Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems (LADIS), Monterey CA USA, Oct. 2015.

• CodeMesh, London, Nov. 2015.

Scientific expertise

Swan Dubois was member of the scientific committee for the assistant professor position n°1642 at University Paris-Sud.

Pierre Sens served on the jury for the "Prix de thèse Gilles Kahn" (SIF - Académie des Sciences).

Pierre Sens also chaired the selection committees for an assistant professor position at Grenoble University.

Research administration

• Pierre is Member of the scientific council of UPMC and officer at UPMC Vice Presidence of Research and Innovation.