Section: Dissemination

Scientific Animation

Participation in the editorial board of scientific journals:

• VLDB Journal: P. Valduriez.

• Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB): E. Pacitti.

• Distributed and Parallel Databases, Kluwer Academic Publishers: P. Valduriez.

• Internet and Databases: Web Information Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers: P. Valduriez.

• Journal of Information and Data Management, Brazilian Computer Society Special Interest Group on Databases: P. Valduriez.

• Book series “Data Centric Systems and Applications” (Springer-Verlag): P. Valduriez.

• Ingénierie des Systèmes d'Information, Hermès : P. Valduriez.

Participation in conference program committees :

• Int. Conf. on VLDB 2012: E. Pacitti

• Int. Conf. on Extending DataBase Technologies (EDBT): Z. Bellahsène, E. Pacitti, 2012, 2013

• Int. Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2012: E. Pacitti

• IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2012: Z. Bellahsène

• Int. Conf. on Middleware 2012: E. Pacitti

• Journées Bases de Données Avancées (BDA), 2012: R. Akbarinia, Z. Bellahsène

• Int. Workshop on Open Data, 2012: P. Valduriez

• ACM Int. Conf. on Multimedia Retrieval 2012: Alexis Joly

• CLEF-labs 2012, 2013: Alexis Joly

• Int. Conf. on Multimedia Modeling 2013: Alexis Joly

• Int. Conf. on Cooperative Information systems (CoopIS): Z. Bellahsène, 2012

• Int. Conf. on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE) : Z. Bellahsène, 2012, 2013

• European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2012: Z. Bellahsène

• ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC, data stream track), 2012: F. Masseglia

• Int. Conf. on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications (DBKDA), 2012: F. Masseglia

• Conférence Internationale Francophone sur l'Extraction et la Gestion de Connaissance (EGC), 2012: F. Masseglia

• IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Mining (ICDM), 2012: F. Masseglia

• Int. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (LEMEDS@AIME), 2011: F. Masseglia

• Int. Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM@KDD), 2011: F. Masseglia

• Int. Pacific-Asia Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2012: F. Masseglia

• IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA) 2012: H. Bouziane

• Rencontres Francophones sur les Aspects Algorithmiques de Telecommunications (AlgoTel), 2012: H. Bouziane

• IEEE Int. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2013: H. Bouziane

Other activities (national):

• The members of Zenith have always been strongly involved in organizing the French database research community, in the context of the I3 GDR and the BDA conference.

• Esther Pacitti organized a workshop on bigdata and life sciencce in the context of the Mastodons project in Montpellier (http://www.lirmm.fr/~pacitti/Mastodons.html ).

• Patrick Valduriez gave a talk on “Open Data Integration with WebSmatch” at SophiaConf2012, organized by Telecom Valley in Sophia-Antipolis. He also chaired the ModSiCS2020 workshop on Data, Models and Theories for Complex Systems: new challenges and opportunities, organized by UM2 in march.

Other activities (international):

• Since 2011, Alexis Joly organizes a system-oriented evaluation initiative dedicated to plant's identification in the context of the CLEF evaluation forum http://clef2012.org/ . This initiative is the first one dealing with the evaluation of content-based technologies in the context of ecological data. Finally, he chaired a panel on "Scientific Multimedia Data'" at the 10th international workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI2012). He also chaired a session on "Search in Large-Scale Multimedia Data" at the International Workshop on Search Computing (sponsored by the EU commission).

• Patrick Valduriez chaired a panel on “Big Data: Scientific and Societal Challenges” at the Berkeley Inria Stanford (BIS2012) workshop in June.