Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

FP7 & H2020 Projects

CONGAS

Participants : Eitan Altman, Konstantin Avrachenkov, Ilaria Brunetti, Yonathan Portilla, Alexandre Reiffers, Vikas Singh.

• Project title: Dynamics and coevolution in multi level strategic interaction games

• Type: FP7

• Challenge: Future and Emerging Technologies

• Instrument: Specific Targeted Research Project

• Objective: FET Proactive: Dynamics of Multi-Level Complex Systems (DyM-CS)

• Duration: October 2012 - September 2015

• Coordinator: Francesco De Pellegrini (Create-Net )

• Scientific Coordinator: Eitan Altman (Inria)

• Other partners: Center for Research and Telecommunication Experimentation for Network Communities (Italy), Univ. d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse (France), Technische Univ. Delft (The Netherlands), Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (United Kingdom), Univ. di Pisa (Italy) and Technion - Israel Institute of Techonology (Israel)

• Inria contact: Konstantin Avrachenkov

• Abstract: CONGAS will develop new mathematical models and tools, rooted in game theory, for the analysis, prediction and control of dynamical processes in complex systems. It will provide a coherent theoretical framework for understanding the emergence of structure and patterns in these systems, accounting for interactions spanning various scales in time and space, and acting at different structural and aggregation levels.

  Maestro 's task is to develop game theoretic models to model (a) the formation of technological and social network; (b) the routing for competing agents; and (c) the competition of information in social networks.

  http://www.congas-project.eu/

Collaborations in European Programs, except FP7 & H2020

• Program: COST

• Project acronym: ACROSS

• Project title: Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services

• Duration: November 2013 - November 2017

• Coordinator: Rob Van Der Mei (CWI) and J.L. Van Den Berg (TNO), The Netherlands

• Abstract: Currently, we are witnessing a paradigm shift from the traditional information-oriented Internet into an Internet of Services (IoS). This transition opens up virtually unbounded possibilities for creating and deploying new services. Eventually, the ICT landscape will migrate into a global system where new services are essentially large-scale service chains, combining and integrating the functionality of (possibly huge) numbers of other services offered by third parties, including cloud services. At the same time, as our modern society is becoming more and more dependent on ICT, these developments raise the need for effective means to ensure quality and reliability of the services running in such a complex environment. Motivated by this, the aim of this Action is to create a European network of experts, from both academia and industry, aiming at the development of autonomous control methods and algorithms for a reliable and quality-aware IoS.

• Keywords: Service oriented internet, cloud services, autonomous control, reliability, pricing.

• Website: http://www.cost-across.nl/

Collaborations with Major European Organizations

• European Space Operations Centre: European Space Agency, Darmstadt (Germany)

• Application of a BitTorrent-like data distribution model to mission operations. In the framework of this project with ESA we cooperate with Thales-Alenia Space (France) and with Teletel S.A. (Greece).