Section: Dissemination

Animation of the scientific community

International memberships

• R. Marie and G. Rubino are members of the IFIP WG 7.3 (Working Group in Computer Performance Modeling and Analysis).

• Gerardo Rubino is a member of the Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications of IEEE.

Organization of conferences

• G. Rubino is a member of the Steering Committee of the international conference QEST (Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems).

• César Viho co-organized (together with Laurent Toutain from TELECOM Bretagne) an international school about "Communicating objects". The school was an initiative of the Irisa "Networks, Telecom and Services" department, and was sponsored by MATISSE doctoral school.

• Bruno Tuffin will be the co-coordinator of the “Analysis" track at the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC'12), Berlin, Germany, December 9-12, 2012. It will be the first time this event will leave North America.

• Bruno Tuffin was the TPC cho-chair for NetGCoop 2011, Oct. 12-14, Paris.

Program committees

Bruno Sericola serves in the Program Committee of the following conferences:

• ASMTA 2011, 18th International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications, Venice, Italy, 20-22 June 2011.

• MAM'7, 7th International Conference on Matrix-Analytic Methods in Stochastic Models, New-York, USA, 13-16 June 2011.

• CFIP 2011, Colloque Francophone sur l'Ingénierie des Protocoles, St Maxime, France, 10613 May 2011.

Gerardo Rubino serves in the Program Committee of the following conferences:

• ETS, 1st European Teletraffic Seminar, Poznan, Poland, 14-16 February 2011

• LANC 2011, 6th Latin America Networking Conference, in cooperation with IFIP/ACM, Quito, Ecuador, 12–14 October, 2011

• CLEI 2012, XXXVIII Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática (Latin-American Informatics Conference), Medellín, Colombia, October 1–5, 2012.

Bruno Tuffin served as TPC member for

• Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Cognitive Radio Networks : from Theory to Reality (PE-CRN 2011), Valencia, Spain, May 13, 2011.

• IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2011), June 5-9 2011, Kyoto, Japan.

• 7th Euro-NGI conference on Next Generation Internet Networks (NGI 2011), June 27-29 2011, Kaiserslautern, Germany.

• 1st International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH), Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 29-31 July 2011.

• 20th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN 2011), Maui, Hawaii, August 1-4, 2011.

• 8th InternationalWorkshop on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems and Services (GECON'2011).

Adlen Ksentini served as TPC member for

• IEEE Global Communication Conference, GLOBECOM 2011 Wireless Network Symposium, December 2011, Houston, Texas, USA

• IEEE International Conference on Communication, ICC 2011 Wireless Network Symposium, June 2011, Kyoto, Japan

• IEEE International Conference on Selected Topics in Mobile and Wireless Networking, October 2011, Shangai, China

• IEEE International Symposium on Computer Communication, ISCC 2011, July 2011, Istanbul, Turkey.

Editorial activity

• Raymond Marie is Associate Editor for Performance Evaluation.

• Bruno Sericola is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Open Operational Research Journal.

• Bruno Sericola is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Stochastic Analysis.

• Bruno Tuffin is associate Editor for INFORMS Journal on Computing.

• Bruno Tuffin is associate Editor for Mathematical Methods of Operations Research.

• Bruno Tuffin is associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation.

• Bruno Tuffin is a Co-guest Editor of a special issue of Telecommunication Systems Journal on Socio-Economic Issues of Next Generation Networks, to appear in 2011.

• Adlen Ksentini is Associate Editor of Hindawei International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting

Managing research activities

• Gerardo Rubino is a member of the Research Commission of TELECOM Bretagne (advisory board for the research activities of the institution).

• Gerardo Rubino is a exterior member of the Specialist Commission of the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Section 27 (since 2001).

• Gerardo Rubino is a member of the CSV (Selection and Validation Committee) of the “Images et Réseaux” (Images and networks) cluster in the French Brittany Region (and Bruno Tuffin his substitute). The cluster groups most companies and academic institutions working in networking and on image-based applications in Western France.

• Gerardo Rubino is the INRIA representative at the GIS SISCOM, an association composed of the four main academic institutions in Western France in the area of information and communication sciences: the European University of Brittany-UEB, the Institut TELECOM, the CNRS and INRIA, to promote the excellence of the ICT research in Brittany.

• Bruno Sericola is responsible for the INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique budget.

• Bruno Sericola is a member of the Inria Evaluation Committee which role is to assess the calibre of research conducted at Inria and to guarantee the quality of its hiring and internal promotions.

• Bruno Sericola is the leader of the research group MAPI (Math Appli Pour l'Info) the goal of which is to improve the collaboration between computer scientists and mathematicians.

• César VIHO is responsible of the “Network, Telecommunication and Services” department of Irisa composed of 4 research teams. He is member of the Conseil de laboratoire and of the Conseil d'Orientations scientifiques (COS) of Irisa. He is in charge of administrative issues management of PhD students of Irisa and Inria. In the context of international relations of Irisa, he is responsible of relations with Africa area universities and research centers.

• Adlen Ksentini is the coordinator of the Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Communication Software Technical Committee (IEEE Communication Society)

Other activities

• B. Tuffin, Pricing in telecommunication networks: from congestion control and incentives design to competition among providers. ETICS Workshop, Versailles, France, June 2011.

• B. Tuffin. Adword auctions: impact of ranking strategies and competition on search engines revenues. INRIA, Grenoble, August 2011.

• P. Maille and B. Tuffin. Sponsored Search Engines in Competition: Advertisers Behavior and Engines Optimal Ranking Strategies. ECONTEL WG4 meeting, Vienna, Austria, September 2011.

• B. Tuffin Models for Network Provider Competition. Final Workshop, SISCom International Research Chair Future Telecommunication Ecosystems", Rennes, September 19, 2011.

• P. Maille and B. Tuffin. Budget-limited advertising game on sponsored search engines in competition. Impact on engine ranking. ECONTEL COST Workshop, Budapest, September 2011.

• R. Marie made in November several seminar presentations in Brazil (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Federal University Fluminense).

• G. Rubino gave several talks to High School students about research activity on applied mathematics and computer science. Topics were the following: rare event analysis, probabilistic tools for deterministic problems and research problems associated with Internet technologies.