Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events: Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• Eitan Altman was 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;

• Konstantin Avrachenkov co-organized the 16th Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph (WAW 2019), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 6-7 July 2019;

• Eitan Altman is chairman of the Steering committee of the workshop NetGCoop - Networking Games, Control and Optimisation;

• Eitan Altman is member of the steering committee of the conferences WiOpt and Valuetools.

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Giovanni Neglia was publicity co-chair of the 20th International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (ACM MobiHoc 2019), Catania, Italy, 2-5 July 2019.

Scientific Events: Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• Konstantin Avrachenkov was the co-chair of the 16th Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph (WAW 2019), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 6-7 July 2019.

• Konstantin Avrachenkov was the co-chair of the 9th EAI International Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNets 2019), Paris, France, April 25-26, 2019.

Member of the Conference Program Committees

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

• ACM Sigmetrics 2020 (Boston, Massachusetts, USA) (S. Alouf);

• IEEE Intl. Conf. on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2020, Beijing, China) (G. Neglia);

• 39th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2019, Dallas, Texas, USA) (K. Avrachenkov);

• 27th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Network Protocols (ICNP 2019, Chicago, Illinois, USA) (K. Avrachenkov);

• 25th Intl. Conf. on Analytical & Stochastic Modelling Techniques & Applications (ASMTA 2019, Moscow, Russia) (K. Avrachenkov);

• 10th Conf. on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec 2019, Stockholm, Sweden) (K. Avrachenkov);

• 8th Intl. Conf. on Complex Networks and their Applications (Lisbon, Portugal) (K. Avrachenkov);

• 26th Intl. Conf. on Telecommunications (ICT 2019, Hanoi, Vietnam) (K. Avrachenkov);

• SIAM Conf. on Control and Its Applications (CT19, Chengdu, China) (K. Avrachenkov);

• SIAM Intl. Conf. on Data Mining (SDM19, Calgary, Canada) (K. Avrachenkov);

• 20th Conf. of the Société Française de Recherche Opérationnelle et d'Aide à la Décision (ROADEF 2019, Le Havre, France) (A. Jean-Marie);

• 7th Symposium on Control, Automation, Industrial Informatics and Smart Grid (ICAIS'19, Trivandrum, Kerala, India) (K. Avrachenkov);

• 16th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2019, Avignon, France) (K. Avrachenkov);

• 16th European Performance Engineering Workshop (EPEW2019, Milan, Italy) (A. Jean-Marie);

• IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on the Communications and Networking Aspects of Online Social Networks (CAOS’19, Paris, France), (G. Neglia);

• 21st Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis (MAMA 2019, Phoenix, USA) (A. Jean-Marie).

Reviewer

• 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2020, London, Canada) (A. Jean-Marie);

• Forum on Specification & Design Languages (FDL 2019, Southampton, UK) (S. Alouf).

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

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

• AIMS: Journal of Dynamic Games (E. Altman);

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

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

• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (G. Neglia);

• Editor at large in IEEE/ACM Transaction of Networking (E. Altman);

• Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences (K. Avrachenkov);

• Springer: Dynamic Games and Applications (E. Altman);

• Stochastic Models (K. Avrachenkov);

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

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• Dynamic Games And Applications (A. Jean-Marie);

• Elsevier Computer Networks (G. Neglia);

• Elsevier International Journal of Performance Evaluation (PEVA) (S. Alouf);

• EURO Journal on Computational Optimization (A. Jean-Marie);

• IEEE Internet of Things Journal (C. Xu);

• IEEE Networking Letters (G. Neglia);

• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) (G. Neglia);

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

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

• Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) (A. Jean-Marie).

Tutorials, Invited Talks

• E. Altman gave a tutorial on “Network Games” at the Workshop on Network, population and congestion games (NPCG19) 17 April, Paris, France.

• G. Neglia gave an invited talk on “Machine Learning Training: Research Challenges and Opportunities for Distributed Computing” at the International Workshop on Distributed Cloud Computing (DCC), 18 October, Budapest, Hungary.

• C. Xu gave an invited talk on "Dynamic back up workers in distributed machine learning" at Sun Yat-sen University, September 3, Guangzhou, China.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

S. Alouf

• has been elected for two years at the Board of Directors of ACM SIGMETRICS.

• is a member of the Equality and Diversity committee of ACM SIGMETRICS.

• is a member of the Conference Advisory committee of ACM SIGMETRICS.

E. Altman

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

• is a fellow member of EAI (Class of 2019)

• is an elected member of IFIP WG 7.3 on “Computer System Modeling”.

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

K. Avrachenkov

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

• is a member of Conseil Scientifique & Pédagogique EUR DS4H Université Côte d'Azur;

A. Jean-Marie

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

• is an elected member of IFIP WG 7.3 on “Computer System Modeling”.

G. Neglia

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

Scientific Expertise

Giovanni Neglia is a consultant for the startup Payback Network in the period November 2019 - January 2020. The consultancy is on differential privacy techniques.

Research Administration

S. Alouf

• 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 and pedagogical committee for the graduate school DS4H of UCA.

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 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.