Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

ANR

ASPIQ

Participants : Jean-François Baget, Fabien Garreau, Marie-Laure Mugnier, Jérôme Fortin, Michel Leclère.

ASPIQ (ASP technologIes for Querying large scale multisource heterogeneous web information), is an ANR white project (duration: 4 years) that started in Oct. 2012. It involves partners from CRIL, LERIA and LSIS. The project coordinator is Odile Papini (LSIS). http://aspiq.lsis.org/

The main objective of this project is to propose:

• extensions of standard ASP for representing OWL2 tractable sublanguages;

• new operations for merging conflicting information in this extended ASP;

• the identification of subclasses of this extended ASP allowing for efficient query answering mechanisms;

• an implementation of a prototype reasoning system.

• See Section  6.2 for this year's results (Extensions of the Framework).

Pagoda

Participants : Jean-François Baget, Marie-Laure Mugnier, Mélanie König, Swan Rocher, Michaël Thomazo.

Pagoda (Practical Algorithms for Ontology-based Data Access)is an ANR JCJC (young researchers) project that started in Jan. 2013 (duration: 4 years). The project coordinator is Meghyn Bienvenu (LRI). It involves partners from the EPI LEO, the LIG, and the Anatomy Laboratory of Grenoble. http://pagoda.lri.fr/

The primary aim of this project is to address challenges brought by scalability and the handling of data inconsistencies by developing novel OBDA (Ontology Based Data Access) query answering algorithms and practical methods for handling inconsistent data.

• See Section  6.2 for this year's results.

Qualinca

Participants : Michel Leclère, Michel Chein, Madalina Croitoru, Léa Guizol, Rallou Thomopoulos, Alain Gutierrez, Swan Rocher, Marie-Laure Mugnier.

Qualinca is an ANR Contint project that started in Apr. 2012 (duration: 4 years). The project coordinator is Michel Leclère (GraphIK). It involves partners from LRI, LIG, ABES and INA. http://www.lirmm.fr/qualinca/index8ece.html?q=en/en/home

The main objective is to elaborate mechanisms allowing to:

• evaluate the quality of an existing document base;

• maintain a given level of quality by controlling updating operations;

• increase the quality of a given base;

• develop generic methods that take into account the quality of a given base (for instance for searching documents or interconnecting bases).

• See Section  6.4 for this year's results.

Dur-Dur

Participants : Abdallah Arioua, Patrice Buche, Madalina Croitoru, Jérôme Fortin, Rallou Thomopoulos.

Dur-Dur (Innovations agronomiques, techniques et organisationnelles pour accroître la DURabilité de la filière blé DUR) is an ANR project that started in 2014 (duration: 3 years). It is led by IATE Laboratory. http://umr-iate.cirad.fr/projets/dur-dur

The Dur-Dur project develops a systematic approach to investigate the questions related to the management of the nitrogen, energy and contaminants, to guarantee a global quality of products throughout the production and the processing chain. The knowledge representation task of Dur-Dur proposes to map the stakeholders’ objectives into a multicriteria cartography, as well as possible means to reach them, and computes the compatibility / incompatibility of these objectives on the basis of argumentation methods. The research methods used are qualitative and based both on argumentation theory and on Social Multi- Criteria Evaluation (SMCE) theory. They will be extended and adapted to the needs of the project to provide a formal framework of assessment of the various orientations considered for the durum wheat chain.

Competitivity Clusters

We are taking part in the Laboratory of Excellence (“labex”) NUMEV (Digital and Hardware Solutions, Modelling for the Environment and Life Sciences), led by University of Montpellier 2 in partnership with CNRS, University of Montpellier 1 and Inria. This project aims at developping information and communication technologies for environmental and life sciences. We are participating to one of the four axis, namely “Scientific Data: processing, integration and security”.