SPARKS Team (I3S)

Wimmics is member of the I3S SPARKS team (Scalable and Pervasive softwARe and Knowledge Systems). It is structured according to three axes: FORUM, ELK and S3.

SPARKS ELK Axis

Wimmics contributes to the SPARKS ELK research axis (Knwoledge Extraction and Learning). Andrea Tettamanzi is co-animator of this axis together with Frédéric Precioso (I3S).

SPARKS FORUM Axis

Wimmics contributes to the SPARKS FORUM research axis (FORmalizing with Users and Models). Catherine Faron-Zucker and Alain Giboin are co-animators of FORUM. This year, three seminars were organized: (1) Visualisation des données liées (Emilie Palagi, Erwan Demairy, Raphaël Boyer, Olivier Corby); (2) Agents BDI possibilistes (Célia Da Costa-Pereira, Serena Villata, Andrea Tettamanzi); (3) Adaptation Dynamique : des processus métiers à l'environnement opérationnel. Application à la continuité de services ambiants (Jean-Yves Tigli, Isabelle Mirbel).

SPARKS S3 Axis

Wimmics contributes to the SPARKS S3 research group (Scalable Software Systems). Olivier Corby, Fuqi Song and Erwan Demairy contribute with federated distributed query processing in Corese with Johan Montagnat and Abdoul Macina. Catherine Faron-Zucker and Franck Michel contribute on it with Johan Montagnat on heterogeneous databases federation.

SPARKS HCI Group

The HCI Group brings together researchers from the SPARKS team conducting or wishing to conduct research related to Human-Computer Interaction. The group specifically addresses the issues of how to conduct user experiments to evaluate the UIs of the software developed in GLC. The group establishes collaborations between researchers in the design and implementation of experiments. The HCI group is animated by Anne-Marie Dery (I3S).

MSHS Axis-2: ICT, Usage and Communities

Participants : Alain Giboin, Alexandre Monnin, Fabien Gandon, Emilie Palagi.

Axis-2 of the Maison des Sciences Humaines et Sociales (MSHS) du Sud-Est (Nice) aims to federate interdisciplinary research on the relationships between ICT, Practices and Communities. Wimmics is mainly involved in one of the Axis-2 groups-projects, ”Artifacts and Coordination.” This group-project studies the impact of cognitive technologies on the social and cognitive coordination between individuals in organizational and community contexts. Alain Giboin is member of the Axis-2 scientific committee and co-animator (with Lise Arena, GREDEG, until September 2016; and Evelyne Rouby, GREDEG, from October 2016) of the ”Artifacts and Coordination” group-project. He is also co-animator (with Pierre Thérouanne (Lapcos), Lise Arena and Agnès Festré (GREDEG)) of the project ”Acceptabilitity of digital devices: an interdisciplinary perspective”. This group is animated by Alain Giboin, Alexandre Monnin, Fabien Gandon and Emilie Palagi.

TCP-IP + Blockchain UCA Idex Submission

Participant : Alexandre Monnin.

We submitted a project proposal around the "TCP-IP + Blockchain (Transdisciplinary Collaborative Plaform for Internet of things and Platform­cooperativism)" platform, launched and coordinated by Alexandre Monnin inside the UCA Jedi Idex (Wimmics, LEAT, Aoste, Indes, I3S, GREDEG, LAPCOS, SKEMA, Sustainable Design School, Villa Arson, module D, club Cap EF, SCITIAM, Fabrique des Mobilités, Mnémotix, etc.). A host of projects were submitted inside this platform:

- ACCEPT by Lise Arena and Alain Giboin (Idex Academy 5)

- SMART by François Verdier (Idex Academy 1)

- Polisthelia by Alexandre Monnin (ANR, PCRI with Luxemburg)

- SMARTIOT by François Verdier (ANR project on Smart Contracts)

among which ValueModels submitted by Alexandre Monnin (Idex Academy 1) was accepted.