Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

The SMIS members have developed tight international cooperations with the following persons/teams:

• Dennis Shasha (Professor at the University of New-York, USA): collaboration on tamper-resistant data management issues. Dennis Shasha has done a one year sabbatical stay in SMIS (July 2006 to June 2007).

• Xiaofeng Meng (Professor at Renmin University, Beijing, China): collaboration on embedded data management issues, partly funded by a Franco-Chinese research program (PRA SI-05604).

• I. Ray and I.Ray (Professors at Colorado State University, USA): collaboration on data privacy and usage control (Indrajit and Indrakshi Ray have visited SMIS from September 2009 up to February 2010).