Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

Member of the organizing committees

Pierre L'Ecuyer was a member of the following groups:

• Steering Committee for the IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods (biennial conference), since 2009.

• Steering Committee for the International Conference on Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing, since 2006.

• Selection committee for the INFORMS Simulation Society Distinguished Service Award, 2012-2015.

G. Rubino and B. Tuffin are members of the Steering Committee of the International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation (RESIM).

Y. Hadjadj-Aoul is a member of the steering committee of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM) from December 2015.

R. Marie and G. Rubino are members of the IFIP WG 7.3 (Working Group in Computer Performance Modeling and Analysis).

Scientific events selection

Chair of conference program committee

• Bruno Tuffin served as coordinator of Analysis Methodology track at the 48th Winter Simulation Conference, Huntington Beach, CA, December 2015.

• Adlen Ksentini served as Technical Program Committee Chair of the 1st IEEE on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSNC)

• Adlen Ksentini is serving as Symposium Chair of Mobile and Wireless Network Symposium of IEEE ICC 2016, Kuala Lampour, Malaisia.

• Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul served as Technical Program Committee Chair of the 2nd International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM).

Member of the conference program committees

Pierre L'Ecuyer was a member of the program committee of the following events:

• MCM'2015: Tenth IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods, Linz, Austria, July 2015.

• SIMUL 2015: Seventh International Conference on Advances in System Simulation, Barcelona, Nov. 2015.

• SIMULTECH 2015: International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications, Colmar, France, July 2015.

• BIRS Workshop on Applied Probability Frontiers: Computational and Modeling Challenges, Banff, Canada, June 2015.

Bruno Tuffin was a member of the program committee of the following events:

• IEEE ICC 2015 - Communications Software, Services and Multimedia Applications Symposium, London, UK, June 8-12, 2015.

• NetEcon 2015: the 10th Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems and Computation, Portland, Oregon, USA, in conjunction with ACM SIGMETRICS, June 2015.

• 2015 ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (ACM SIGSIM PADS 2015) , the University of Westminster, London, UK, June 15-17, 2015.

• 4th Workshop on Smart Data Pricing (SDP 2015), Workshop of IEEE INFOCOM 2015, Hong Kong, May 1st, 2015.

• 10th IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods (MCM 2015), Linz, Austria, July 2015.

• 8th International Workshop on Simulation, Vienna, Austria, September 21-25, 2015.

• The International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications (WINCOM'15). Marrakech, Morocco, October 20-23, 2015.

Bruno Sericola served in the Program Committee of the following conferences:

• ASMTA 2015, 22nd International Conference on Analytical & Stochastic Modelling Techniques & Applications, Albena, (Varna) Bulgaria, 26-29 May 2015.

• MACOM 2015, 8th International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications, Helsinki, Finland, 3-4 September 2015.

• INTERNET 2015, 7th International Conference on Evolving Internet, St. Julians, Malta, 11-16 October 2015.

Adlen Ksentini was member of the program committee of the following events:

• IEEE ICC 2015 Mobile Wireless Networks Symposium, London, UK, 2015.

• IEEE Globecom 2015 Mobile Wireless Networks Symposium, San Diego, USA, 2015.

• IEEE WCNC 2015, New Orleans, USA, 2015.

Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul was a member of the program committee of the following events:

• IEEE ICC 2015 Mobile Wireless Networks Symposium, London, UK, 2015.

• IEEE Globecom 2015 Mobile Wireless Networks Symposium, San Diego, USA, 2015.

• IEEE WCNC 2015, New Orleans, USA, 2015.

• IEEE CSCN 2015 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications & Networking, Tokyo, Japan, 2015.

Gerardo Rubino served or serves at the program committee of the following conferences:

• QEST 2015: 12th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems, Madrid, Spain, August 2015.

• ComTel 2015: VIII Congreso Internacional de Computación y Telecomunicaciones, Lima, Perú, September 2016

• ComTel 2016: VIII Congreso Internacional de Computación y Telecomunicaciones, Lima, Perú, September 2016

• MASCOTS 2016: The 24th IEEE conference in Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems, London, England, September 2016.

• Networking 2015: The 14th IFIP Networking Conference, Toulouse, France, May 2015.

• Networking 2016: The 15th IFIP Networking Conference, Vienna, Austria, May 2016.

Reviewer

César Viho has reviewed project proposals for the ANR and for CIFRE contracts for the ANRT. He has reviewed papers for the journals IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communication, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Communications, IEEE Communications Magazine, and for the following international conferences: IWCNC'15, Globecom'15, CCNC'16.

Adlen Ksentini has reviewed papers in 2015 for Transaction Paralel Distributed Systems-TPDS, Transaction on Wireless Communication - TWC, Transaction on Vehicular Technology - TVT, Wireless Communication Magazine, Elsevier Computer Communication.

Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul has reviewed papers in 2015 for Transaction on Vehicular Technology-TVT, Wireless Communication Magazine, Elsevier Computer Communication and for the following international conferences: Globecom'15, ICC'15, WCNC'15.

Journal

Member of the editorial boards

Bruno Tuffin is an associate editor for the following journals:

• INFORMS Journal on Computing, since 2007.

• Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, since November 2008.

• ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, since July 2009.

Pierre L'Ecuyer is an associate editor for the following journals:

• ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, since August 2004.

• Statistics and Computing (Springer-Verlag), since June 2003.

• International Transactions in Operational Research, since May 2007.

Bruno Sericola is an associate editor for the following journals:

• International Journal of Stochastic Analysis.

• Performance Evaluation.

Bruno Sericola is Editor in Chief of the books series “Stochatic Models in Computer Science and Telecommunications Networks", ISTE/WILEY.

Adlen Ksentini is Associate Editor of IEEE Access Journal.

Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul is guest editor for the Hindawi's Special Issue on “Wireless and Mobile Technologies for the Internet of Things”.

Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul is a member of the editorial broad of the CSC Journal's “International Journal of Computer Networks (IJCN)” since 2012.

Reviewer - Reviewing activities

In addition to the reports done during his associate editor and conference TPC member duties, Bruno Tuffin has reviewed papers in 2015 for ACM TOMPECS, Computers & Operations Research, IEEE Network Magazine, Operations Research, Statistics & Computing.

Bruno Sericola has reviewed papers for several major internationals journals and conferences.

Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul has reviewed papers for several major internationals journals and conferences such as: Security and Communication Networks (Wiley), IEEE Communication Magazine, and IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technologies (TVT).

Gerardo Rubino has reviewed papers for several major internationals journals and conferences, including Performance Evaluation, RAIRO, book chapters, and the reviewing activities related to the service at different program committees.

Invited talks

• B. Tuffin. “Rare event simulation applied to dependability analysis”. Université de Pau, May 2015.

• B. Tuffin (joint work with P. L'Ecuyer, P. Maillé, N. Stier-Moses). “Revenue-Maximizing Rankings for Online Platforms with Quality-Sensitive Consumers”. GRD COS, Toulouse, September 2015.

• B. Tuffin (joint work with P. Maillé, G. Simon). “On revenue-oriented Content Delivery Networks and their impact on Net Neutrality”. GEARD, Université de Montréal, Canada, Sept. 2015.

• B. Tuffin. “Rare event simulation applied to dependability analysis”. GDR MASCOT-NUM, IHP Paris, October 2015.

• B. Tuffin (joint work with P. L'Ecuyer, P. Maillé, N. Stier-Moses). “Stochastic Optimization for Search Engines: Revenue-Maximizing Rankings with Quality-Sensitive Consumers”. NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, November 2015.

• A. Ksentini, “On the Cloudification of mobile networks”, Tutorial at IEEE Globecom, December 2015, San Diego, USA.

• A. Ksentini, “Cloud and mobile network, the marriage”, Invited Seminar, Univ. Reims, October, 2015

• A. Ksentini, “SDN and NFV”, Tutorial in the International School on Cloud Computing, Tunis, Tunisia, April 2015.

• C. Viho, “Quality of Experience(QoE)-based resource management in wireless networks”, plenary talk at the 2nd International Congress on Telematics, Computing and Communications (WITCOM 2015), Mexico DF, Mexico, November 4, 2015.

• C. Viho, “How to Deal with Interoperability Testing in The Challenging and Ever-changing Context of IoT”, invited talk at the 2nd EAI International Conference on Interoperability in IoT (InterIoT 2015), Roma, Italy, October 26, 2015.

• G. Rubino, “Random Neural Networks: some applications and extensions”, invited speaker in Imperial College Seminar in honor of Prof. Erol Gelenbe, London, September November 2015.

• G. Rubino, “Automatic measuring of perceptual quality, a major QoE component of video- and audio-based services”, plenary speaker in Soft Computing Methods for the Design, Deployment, and Reliability of Networks and Network Applications (SOFTNET 2015), Paris, France, July 2015.

• G. Rubino, “Statistical Learning and Queueing Models: an Hybrid Approach for Performance Evaluation”, plenary speaker in 15th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2015), Séoul, Korea, November 2015.

• G. Rubino, “Risk and loss, prediction and analysis: probabilistic approaches”, keynote speaker in 2nd Int. Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management, Rennes, France, December 2015.

Research administration

• Bruno Tuffin was a member of Inria-MITACS selection committee, 2015.

• Bruno Sericola is responsible for the Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique budget.

• Bruno Sericola has been (until August 2015) a member of the Inria Evaluation Committee which role is to assess the calibre of research conducted at Inria and to guarantee the quality of its hiring and internal promotions.

• Bruno Sericola is the leader of the research group MAPI (Math Appli Pour l'Info) the goal of which is to improve the collaboration between computer scientists and mathematicians.

• Bruno Sericola has been member of the HCERES (Haut Conseil de l'Évaluation de la recherche et de l'enseignement supérieur) Evaluation Committee for the scientific evaluation of the CITI (Centre of Innovation in Telecommunications and Integration of service), Lyon, France, in February 2015;

• Adlen Ksentini is the secretary of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Software.

• Adlen Ksentini is the the secretary of the IEEE ComSoc France Section.

• Gerardo Rubino is a member of the Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications of IEEE.

• G. Rubino has been appointed as the Inria representative at the Scientific Committee of the IFCAM (Indo-French Center for Applied Mathematics), a joint international unit between Indian Ministry of Science and Technology and several French institutions including CNRS, Inria, École Polytechnique, École Normale Supérieure, Inria, Nice Sophia Antipolis University and University of Toulouse III.

• Gerardo Rubino is a member of the Research Commission of TELECOM Bretagne (advisory board for the research activities of the institution).

• Gerardo Rubino is a member of the CSV (Selection and Validation Committee) of the “Images et Réseaux” (Images and networks) cluster in the French Brittany Region. The cluster includes most companies and academic institutions working in networking and in image-based applications in Western France.

• Gerardo Rubino has been appointed as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Science and Engineering, of KAUST, Saudi Arabia, since January 2014.