Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Anne-Cécile Orgerie was the main organizer of the research school E3-RSD on energy-efficiency in networks and distributed systems held in Dinard in June 2016 (http://e3rsd.irisa.fr).

• Louis Rilling was the main organizer of the SEC2 2016 workshop on security in Clouds held in Lorient in July 2016 in conjunction with the Compas 2016 conference (https://sec2-2016.inria.fr/).

• Guillaume Pierre was co-workshop/tutorials chair of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2016 conference.

• Martin Quinson was the main organizer of the research school SUD gathering the SimGrid user community held in Fréjus in January.

• Nikos Parlavantzas was a member of the organizing committee for MMS 2016 (INSA Science Day) in April 2016

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• Guillaume Pierre was the program chair of the Systems track of the Compas 2016 national conference.

• Guillaume Pierre was a program co-chair of CloudDP 2016 (6th International Workshop on Cloud Data and Platforms)

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Christine Morin was a member of the program committee of the ACM/IEEE, SC'16, IEEE ICDCS 2016, ACM/IEEE CC-Grid 2016, IEEE CloudCom 2016, IEEE NFV-SDN 2016, Euromicro PDP 2016, ICCCN 2016 conferences and Resilience'16, ScienceCloud'16, CrossCloud'16 workshops.

• Anne-Cécile Orgerie was a member of the program committee of the PASA 2016 workshop and the Compas 2016 conference.

• Guillaume Pierre was a member of the program committees of IEEE IC2E 2016, ICPP 2016, DADS track of ACM SAC 2016, CloudCom 2016, and IEEE ScalCom 2016.

• Martin Quinson was a member of the program committees of SimulTech 2016.

• Nikos Parlavantzas was a member of the program committees of VHPC 16, and CLOSER 2016.

• Cédric Tedeschi was a member of the program committee of ICWS 2016, ICCS 2016, CloSer 2016 and Compas 2016 conferences. He was a member of the program committee of the ERROR 2016 workshop.

Reviewer

• Jean-Louis Pazat was a reviewer for the Compas Conference.

• Martin Quinson was a reviewer for the Compas Conference.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

Christine Morin is associate editor in the IEEE's Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems' Editorial Board.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• Cédric Tedeschi was a reviewer for the TPDS journal.

Invited Talks

• “Developing an Understanding of Ecosystems and Energy-Water Interactions Through Data“, keynote talk, Inria@Silicon Valley BIS workshop, Paris, June 8th, 2016.

• "Infection dynamics in a metapopulation of cattle herds: models and their execution in large-scale computing infrastructure"; Christine Morin (together with Pauline Ezanno), talk for Rencontres INRA-Inria, Pont Royal en Provence, October 3rd, 2016.

• “Le coût énergétique du stockage dans le Cloud”, Anne-Cécile Orgerie, talk for the scientific days of the University of Nantes, Nantes, June 10, 2016.

• “Green Computing and Sustainability”, Anne-Cécile Orgerie, Keynote at the Annual Workshop of the French section of URSI (International Union of Radio Science), Rennes, France, March 2016.

• “L'axe Green IT à l'IRISA”, Anne-Cécile Orgerie, talk for the HCERES evaluation of IRISA, Rennes, January 21, 2016.

• “Real-time stream data processing for hyper-interactive applications in fog computing platforms”, Guillaume Pierre, invited presentation at the US-EU Invited Workshop on the Next Generation Internet of Things, Los Angeles (USA), March 31st 2016.

• “Toward hyper-interactive applications in fog computing platforms”, Guillaume Pierre, invited presentation at the 9th Cloud control workshop, Friiberghs Herrgård (Sweden), 27-29 June 2016.

• “Experimental methodologies for large-scale distributed systems”, Martin Quinson, research school E3-RSD on energy-efficiency in networks and distributed systems held in Dinard in June 2016.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• Christine Morin was invited to participate in the CRA-W career mentoring workshop held in Washington DC on November 19-20, 2016. Together with AJ Brush she organized a panel on "Growing Research/Surviving First 2 Years" and together with Lori Pollock she organized a panel on "Networking and Finding Advocates". She also did 1-1 mentoring for junior computer scientists (postdocs, assistant-professors, junior scientists and junior R&D engineers).

• Anne-Cécile Orgerie is co-responsible for the Green axis of the CNRS GDR RSD (Network and Distributed Systems working group).

• Anne-Cécile Orgerie is secretary of the ASF: the French chapter of ACM SIGOPS.

• Cédric Tedeschi is a member of the steering committee of the Compas conference.

Scientific Expertise

Yvon Jégou is a member of the Comité de Sélection et de Validation (CSV) of the Images & Réseaux cluster (until June 2016).

Christine Morin was a member of the HCERES evaluation committee of the LORIA (visit in Nancy December 13-15, 2016). She was a remote reviewer for the Call 2015 of CHIST-ERA on the topic User-Centric Security, Privacy and Trust in the Internet of Things. She was a member of the Jury for the Inria - Académie des Sciences prizes 2016.

Jean-Louis Pazat is the coordinator of experts in Information Technology for the evaluation of international bilateral collaborations at the ministry of research and education.

Martin Quinson is a member of the scientific committee of the Blaise Pascal foundation for the scientific dissemination of Maths and Computer Science, and also of the 2017 forum “Vivid Maths” (mathématiques vivantes) organized by the CFEM (French commission for the teaching of maths). He acted as an expert for a project of the UNIT foundation, the technical and engineering numerical university.

Nikos Parlavantzas acted as an expert reviewer for ANR and ANRT CIFRE projects.

Research Administration

• Yvon Jégou is a member of the Grid 5000 executive committee (until June 2016).

• Christine Morin is a member of the board of the Project-Team Committee of Inria Rennes Bretagne Atlantique.

• Christine Morin was the scientific coordinator for the Inria evaluation seminar of the "distributed system and middleware" theme, held in Rungis in October 2016.

• Christine Morin has been a member of the University of Rennes 1 board of directors and of the International Affairs Commission and its board since March 2016.

• Anne-Cécile Orgerie is officer (chargée de mission) for the IRISA cross-cutting axis on Green IT.

• Jean-Louis Pazat was the leader of the “Large Scale Systems” department of IRISA until October 2016, after which this responsibility was taken over by Martin Quinson.

• Jean-Louis Pazat was the leader of the IRISA-INSA computing lab until October 2016