Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• Eitan Altman was the general chair of the 6th Intl. Conf. on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications (WINCOM'18), Marrakesh, Morocco, 16-19 October 2018;

• Eitan Altman is the general chair of the 12th EAI International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (VALUETOOLS 2019), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 13-15 March 2019;

• Eitan Altman is a steering committee member of the

  • 4th Intl. Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (UNET 2018), Hammamet, Tunisia, 2-5 May 2018;

  • 9th EAI Intl. Conf. on Game Theory for Networks (GAMENETS 2019), Paris, France, 25-26 April 2019;

• Dimitra Politaki was the general chair of the workshop “Monde des mathematiques industrielles (MOMI),” Inria Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée, 26-27 February 2018.

Member of the Organizing Committees

• G. Neglia is publicity co-chair of the 20th Intl. Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (ACM Mobihoc, Catania, Italy, 2019).

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• Eitan Altman was TPC co-chair of ITC 30 (Vienna, Austria, Sept. 2018);

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• ACM Sigmetrics / IFIP Performance 2019 (Phoenix, Arizona, USA) (S. Alouf, K. Avrachenkov)

• 19th Conf. of the Société Française de Recherche Opérationnelle et d'Aide à la Décision (ROADEF 2018, Lorient, France) (A. Jean-Marie)

• 9th EAI Intl. Conf. on Sensor Systems and Software (S-CUBE 2018, Chengdu, China) (E. Altman)

• 15th European Performance Engineering Workshop (EPEW 2018, Paris, France) (A. Jean-Marie)

• IEEE Intl. Conf. on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2019, Paris, France) (G. Neglia)

• 26th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Network Protocols (ICNP 2018, Cambridge, UK) (K. Avrachenkov)

• 3rd Intl. Conf. on Pervasive and Embedded Computing (PEC 2018) (K. Avrachenkov)

• 6th Intl. Conf. on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications (WINCOM'18, Marrakesh, Morocco) (E. Altman)

• European Conf. on Queueing Theory (ECQT 2018, Jerusalem, Israel) (K. Avrachenkov)

• 9th Intl. Conf. on Network Games, Control and Optimization (NETGCOOP 2018, New York, USA) (K. Avrachenkov)

• 18th Intl. Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications (ISDG 2018, Grenoble, France) (E. Altman)

• 2018 Intl. Workshop on Resource Allocation, Cooperation and Competition in Wireless Networks (RAWNET, Shangai, China, 2018) (K. Avrachenkov, G. Neglia)

• Workshop on AI in Networks (WAIN, Toulouse, France, 2018) (G. Neglia)

• 15th Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph (WAW 2018, Moscow, Russia) (K. Avrachenkov)

• 20th Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis (MAMA 2018, Irvine, USA) (A. Jean-Marie)

• 2018 Intl. Workshop on Content Caching and Delivery in Wireless Networks (CCDWN 2018, Shanghai, China) (K. Avrachenkov)

• Workshop Technologies for the Wireless Edge (EdgeTech 2018) (K. Avrachenkov)

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

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

• Elsevier International Journal of Performance Evaluation (K. Avrachenkov);

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

• Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT) (S. Alouf);

• IEEE JSAC Special issue on Caching for Communication Systems and Networks (S. Alouf, G. Neglia);

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (ACM ToMPECS) (G. Neglia)

• European Journal of Operational Research (A. Jean-Marie)

• IEEE Networking Letters (G. Neglia)

• EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (G. Neglia)

• Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (A. Jean-Marie)

• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (G. Neglia)

• IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks (G. Neglia)

• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (G. Neglia)

• Performance Evaluation (PEVA) (S. Alouf)

• Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences (A. Jean-Marie)

Invited Talks

• E. Altman gave a keynote lecture on “Game Theoretic Models for Routing Over Wireless Links ” at the 6th Intl. Conf. on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications (WINCOM'18), October 16-19, Marrakesh, Morocco.

• K. Avrachenkov gave an invited talk on “Analysis of relaxation time in random walk with jumps” at the Intl. Conf. on Trends and Perspectives in Linear Statistical Inference (LinStat'2018, 19-25 August) in Bedlewo, Poland.

• K. Avrachenkov gave an invited talk on “Singularly perturbed linear programs and their application to MDP” at Univ. of Twente, September 20, Enschede, The Netherlands.

• G. Neglia gave an invited talk on “Implicit Coordination of Caches in Small Cell Networks under Unknown Popularity Profiles” at the workshop Technologies for the Wireless Edge (EdgeTech) EdgeTech of the 24th Annual Intl. Conf. on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2018), November 2, New Delhi, India.

• G. Neglia gave an invited talk on “Transient and Slim versus Recurrent and Fat: Random Walks and the Trees they Grow” at the UCA workshop on Social Interactions and Complex Dynamics, November 29-30, Nice, France.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

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

• E. Altman and A. Jean-Marie are (elected) members of IFIP WG 7.3 on “Computer System Modeling”.

• E. Altman is member of WG 6.3 of IFIP on Performance of Communication Systems.

Research Administration

S. Alouf

• is member of the scientific committee of the joint laboratory Inria-Alstom since May 2014;

• is member of CLF, the training committee of Inria Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée, since November 2014;

• is vice-head of project-team Neo since January 2017.

K. Avrachenkov

• is responsible for the supervision and validation of the project-teams' yearly activity reports since 2010;

• is a member of NICE, the Invited Researchers Committee of Inria Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée, since 2010.

• is a member of scientific committee for Labex UCN@Sophia;

• is a member of scientific and pedagogical committee for the graduate school of UCA DS4H.

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);

• is member of the managing sub-committee of the Project-Team Committee of the Inria Sophia Antipolis – Méditerranée research center since December 2017;

• 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 Neo since January 2017.

G. Neglia

• is the scientific delegate for European partnerships for Inria Sophia Antipolis – Méditerranée since 2014;

• is member of the Inria COST GTRI (International Relations Working Group of Inria’s Scientific and Technological Orientation Council since 2016;

• is member of the scientific animation committee for the IDEX UCA${}^{\mathrm{JEDI}}$ research program “Social Interactions and Complex Dynamics” since 2017.

D. Politaki

was one of the organizers of the fortnightly PhD Seminars of Inria Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée until September 2018.