Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

Member of the Organizing Committees

Pierre L'Ecuyer is member of the Steering Committee of MCQMC.

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.

Yann Busnel has been “Habilité à diriger les recherches” at the École Normale Supérieure de Rennes, under the seal of University Bretagne Loire, in December 2016, presenting a defense entitled “Analyse et traitement de flux de données large échelle”.

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• Bruno Tuffin served as TPC co-chair for the 10th International Conference Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (Valuetools'16), September 2016, Taormina, Italy.

• Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul served as TPC co-chair for the 3rd International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC 2016), May 2016, Hammamet, Tunisia.

• Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul served as TPC co-chair for the 13th conférence francophone sur les nouvelles technologies de la répartition (NOTERE 2016), Paris, France.

Member of the Conference Program Committees

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

• MCQMC'2016: Twelve International Conference on Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing, Stanford, California, Aug. 2016.

• SIMULTECH 2016: International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2016.

• ICORES 2016: International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, Rome, Italy, Feb. 2016.

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

• 5th Workshop on Smart Data Pricing (SDP 2016), Workshop of IEEE INFOCOM 2016, San Francisco, USA, April 2016.

• IEEE ICC 2016 - Communications Software, Services and Multimedia Applications Symposium, 23-27 May 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

• 22nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC 2016), Yogyakarta, Indonesia on 25-27 August 2016.

• GECON2016 (13th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services), 20-22 September 2016, Athens, Greece.

• The International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications (WINCOM?16). Fez, Morocco, October 26-29, 2016.

• Globecom'16 - CSSMA (2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference: Communications Software, Services and Multimedia Apps), 4-8 December 2016, Washington VD, USA.

Bruno Sericola was member of the program committee of the following events:

• ASMTA 2016: 23rd International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications, Cardiff, Wales, UK, August 2016.

• MACOM 2016: 9th International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications, Aalborg, Denmark, November 2016.

• INTERNET 2016: 8th International Conference on Evolving Internet, Barcelona, Spain, November 2016.

• DEPEND 2016: 9th International Conference on Dependability, Nice, France, July 2016.

Yann Busnel was a member of the program committee of the following events:

• NCA 2016: 15th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, Boston, USA, October 2016.

• CoRes 2016: 1ères Rencontres Francophones sur la Conception de Protocoles, l'ɉvaluation de Performance et l'Expérimentation des Réseaux de Communication, Bayonne, France, May 2016.

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

• IEEE ICC 2016 Mobile Wireless Networks Symposium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2016.

• IEEE Globecom 2016 Mobile Wireless Networks Symposium, Washington, DC USA 2016.

• IEEE WCNC 2016, Doha, Qatar, 2016.

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

• IEEE ICC 2016 Mobile Wireless Networks Symposium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2016.

• IEEE Globecom 2016 Mobile Wireless Networks Symposium, Washington, DC USA 2016.

• IEEE WCNC 2016, Doha, Qatar, 2016.

• IEEE CSCN 2016 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications & Networking, Berlin, Germany, 2016.

Gerardo Rubino was a member of the program committee of the following events:

• Networking 2016, The IFIP Networking Conference, Vienne, Autriche, May 2016.

• MAM9 (9th) International Conference on Matrix Analytic Methods in Stochastic Models, Budapest, Hongrie, June 2016.

• COMTEL 2016, VIII International Congress in Computer Science and Telecommunications, Lima, Perú, September 2016.

• Mascots 2016, the IEEE International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems, Londres, UK, September 2016.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

Bruno Tuffin is the Simulation Area Editor for Informs Journal on Computing.

Bruno Tuffin is an associate editor for the following journal:

• Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, since November 2008.

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, since April 2010.

• Performance Evaluation, since April 2015.

Bruno Sericola is Editor in Chief of the books series “Stochatic Models in Computer Science and Telecommunications Networks”, ISTE/WILEY, since March 2015.

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

Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul was a member of the guest editorial board of the following journals:

• Special issue in IGI, International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST), “Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management” [99], Vol. 7, Issue 4, ISSN: 1947-3532 (October 2016)

• Hindawi Mobile Information Systems (Editorial), “Wireless and Mobile Technologies for the Internet of Things” [100], vol. 2016, ID 8206548 (2016)

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

In addition to the reports done during his associate editor and conference TPC member duties, Bruno Tuffin has reviewed papers in 2016 for COMNET, Operations Research, Stochastic Models, Computers & OR, Journal of Communications & Networks.

Bruno Sericola served as a reviewer for several major international journals and conferences.

Adlen Ksentini has reviewed papers in 2016 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 2016 for Transaction on Vehicular Technology-TVT, Wireless Communication Magazine, Elsevier Computer Communication and for the following international conferences: Globecom'16, ICC'16, WCNC'16 and others.

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, Globecom, and CCNC.

Gerardo Rubino has reviewed papers for several international journals and conferences (Networking 2016, MAM9, Mascots 2016, ...), ANR projects, etc.

Invited Talks

B. Tuffin. gave a plenary talk “Some applications of importance sampling to dependability analysis” at the International Conference on Monte Carlo techniques, Paris, France, July 2016.

B. Tuffin gave the following seminar presentations:

• B. Tuffin. Net neutrality. IRISA Evaluation by HCRES, Jan. 2016.

• P. L'Ecuyer, P. Maillé, N. Stier-Moses, B. Tuffin. Stochastic Optimization for Search Engines: Revenue-Maximizing Rankings with Quality-Sensitive Consumers. CREM-IRISA Workshop on Network Economics, January 2016.

• P. Maillé, G. Simon, B. Tuffin. On revenue-oriented Content Delivery Networks and their impact on Net Neutrality. CREM-IRISA Workshop on Network Economics, January 2016.

• B. Tuffin. La neutralité du Net. Journées scientifiques Inria, Rennes, Juin 2016.

• P. Maille and B. Tuffin. Auctions For Online Ad Space Among Advertisers Mixing Pay-per-view And Pay-per-click. DIRO, Université de Montréal, Canada, Nov 30, 2016.

Y. Hadjadj-Aoul gave a plenary talk “Efficient support of Massive M2M communications during emergency situations” at the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM 2016), Vienna, Austria, December 2016.

Y. Busnel gave a plenary talk “Comment générer des échantillons uniformes sur des grandes masses de données ?” at the 9ème Colloque Francophone sur les sondages, Gatineau, Canada, October 2016.

G. Rubino made several invited and keynote talks in 2016:

• an invited talk at Advances in Uncertainty Quantification Methods, Algorithms and Applications, Kaust, Saudi Arabia, about rare event analysis [37];

• an invited talk at SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, Lausanne, Suisse, about rare event analysis in static models [39];

• a keynote at Mascots'16, London, UK, about a new performance metric [34];

• an invited talk at Technoconférence “Nouvelles expériences son et vidéo", Rennes, France, about QoE measuring [35];

• a keynote in Math AmSud Seminar, Montevideo, Uruguay, about QoE analysis and Big Data problems [38];

• a keynote at SoCPaR'16, Vellore, India, about new results concerning Perceptual Quality measuring [36].

Leadership within the Scientific Community

Bruno Tuffin is the co-director of the common lab ALSTOM-Inria since 2014.

Gerardo Rubino is one of the three French representatives at the Scientific Committee of the IFCAM (Indo-French Centre for Applied Mathematics), managing the cooperation in mathematics of the two countries, and federating at the French side, among several other participants, Inria and CNRS.

Gerardo Rubino is a member of the CSV (the technical committee) of the Images and Networks Cluster of Brittany, France.

Research Administration

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

• 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.