Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Inria Associate Teams

THANES

Participants : Eitan Altman, Konstantin Avrachenkov, Jithin Kazhuthuveettil Sreedharan, Philippe Nain, Giovanni Neglia, Alexandre Reiffers.

• Title: THeory and Application of NEtwork Science

• Inria principal investigator: Giovanni Neglia

• International Partner (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher):

  • Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) - Department of Computer and Systems Engineering - Daniel Ratton Figueiredo

• Duration: 2014 - 2016

• See also: https://team.inria.fr/thanes/

• Our goal is to study how services in Online Social Networks (OSN) can be efficiently designed and managed. This research requires to answer 3 main questions: 1) How can the topology of an OSN be discovered? Many services need or can take advantage of some knowledge of the network structure that is usually not globally available and in any case changes continuously due to structural dynamics. 2) How does services adoption spread across the OSN? On the one hand the popularity of a service is determined by word-of-mouth through the links of the OSN and, on the other end, the service may contribute to reshape the structure of the OSN (e.g. by creating new connections). 3) How do different services compete for the finite attention and money of OSN users? In particular our purpose is to provide analytical models (corroborated by simulations and experiments on real networks) to understand such complex interactions.

GANESH

Participants : Eitan Altman, Konstantin Avrachenkov.

• Title: GAmes, OptimizatioN and Analysis of NEtworkS THeory and Applications

• Inria principal investigator: Eitan Altman

• International Partners (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher):

  • IISc Bangalore (India) - Electrical Communication Engineering - Anurag Kumar

  • IIT Mumbai (India) - Department of Electrical Engineering - Vivek Borkar

  • IIT Madras (India) - Electrical Engineering - Venkatesh Ramaiyan

• Duration: 2012 - 2014

• See also: http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Eitan.Altman/Ganesh/Home.html

• This project aims at producing outstanding contributions to the foundations of the theory of networks, in game theory, team theory, optimization and analysis. Three areas in networking will be used to apply these: (i) economy of networks and network neutrality, (2) scheduling in wireless networks, and (3) distributed optimization issues in ad-hoc networks.

Inria International Partners

Informal International Partners

Maestro has continued collaborations with researchers from GERAD, Univ. Montreal (Canada), Flinders Univ. (Australia), National Univ. of Rosario (Argentina), Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Israel), Univ. of Arizona (USA), Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), Univ. of Liverpool (UK), Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst (USA), Univ. of Palermo (Italy), and Univ. of Twente (The Netherlands); Petrozavodsk State Univ. (Russia); Ghent Univ. (Belgium); see Sections 8.4.1.1 and 8.4.2 .

Participation In other International Programs

E. Altman, I. Brunetti, M. Haddad, G. Neglia, A. Reiffers and J. K. Sreedharan participated in the CEFIPRA workshop on “New Avenues for Network Models” (13-15 January 2014) and the IFCAM workshop on Social Networks (16 January 2014). CEFIPRA and IFCAM organized these workshops to celebrate 6 years of successful collaboration between Inria and Indian institutions. The travel and accommodation expenses were supported by CEFIPRA and IFCAM.