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Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

ANR

Equipex FIT (Futur Internet of Things)

Participant : Éric Fleury [correspondant] .

FIT is one of 52 winning projects in the Equipex research grant program. It will set up a competitive and innovative experimental facility that brings France to the forefront of Future Internet research. FIT benefits from 5.8 million euro grant from the French government Running from 22.02.11 – 31.12.2019. The main ambition is to create a first-class facility to promote experimentally driven research and to facilitate the emergence of the Internet of the future.

ANR GRAPHSIP (Graph Signal Processing)

Participants : Paulo Gonçalves [correspondant] , Éric Fleury, Thomas Begin, Sarra Ben Alaya.

An increasing number of application areas require the processing of massive datasets. These data can often be represented by graphs in order to encode complex interactions. When data vectors are associated with graph vertices, a so-called graph signal is obtained. The processing of such graph signals includes several open challenges because of the nature of the involved information. Indeed graph theory and signal and image processing methodologies do not combine readily. In particular, such a combination requires new developments, allowing classical signal processing methods to work on irregular grids and non Euclidean spaces. Considering the significant success of classical signal processing tools, it appears essential to generalise their use to graph signals. The GRAPHSIP project aims at developing a set of advanced methods and algorithms for the processing of graph signals: multi-scale transforms and solutions of variational problems on graphs. The major outcomes of this project are expected to lead to significant breakthroughs for graph data processing. The project will also focus on two novel applications on instances of graph signals: brain networks and 3D colour point clouds. They will exemplify and illustrate the proposed methodological advances on emerging applications.

ANR INFRA DISCO (DIstributed SDN COntrollers for rich and elastic network services)

Participants : Thomas Begin [correspondant] , Anthony Busson, Isabelle Guerin Lassous, Huu Nghi Nguyen.

The DANTE team will explore the way SDN (Software Designed Network) can change network monitoring, control, urbanisation and abstract description of network resources for the optimisation of services. More specifically, the team will address the issues regarding the positioning of SDN controllers within the network, and the implementation of an admission control that can manage IP traffic prioritisation.

ANR REFLEXION (REsilient and FLEXible Infrastructure for Open Networking)

Participants : Thomas Begin [correspondant] , Anthony Busson, Isabelle Guerin Lassous, Zidong Su.

The DANTE team will work on the monitoring of NFV proposing passive and light-weight metrology tools. They will then investigate the modelling of low-level resources consumptions and finally propose methods to dynamically allocate these resources taking into account performance constraints.

ANR CONTINT CODDDE

Participants : Éric Fleury [correspondant] , Christophe Crespelle, Márton Karsai.

It is a collaborative project between the ComplexNetwork team at LIP6/UPMC; Linkfluence and Inria Dante. The CODDDE project aims at studying critical research issues in the field of real-world complex networks study:

  • How do these networks evolve over time?

  • How does information spread on these networks?

  • How can we detect and predict anomalies in these networks?

In order to answer these questions, an essential feature of complex networks will be exploited: the existence of a community structure among nodes of these networks. Complex networks are indeed composed of densely connected groups of that are loosely connected between themselves.

The CODDDE project will therefore propose new community detection algorithms to reflect complex networks evolution, in particular with regards to diffusion phenomena and anomaly detection.

These algorithms and methodology will be applied and validated on a real-world online social network consisting of more than 10 000 blogs and French media collected since 2009 on a daily basis (the dataset comprises all published articles and the links between these articles).

ANR SoSweet

Participants : Jean Pierre Chevrot, Éric Fleury, Márton Karsai [correspondant] , Jean-Philippe Magué [PI] .

The SoSweet project focuses on the synchronic variation and the diachronic evolution of the variety of French used on Twitter. The recent rise of novel digital services opens up new areas of expression which support new linguistic behaviours. In particular, social medias such as Twitter provide channels of communication through which speakers/writers use their language in ways that differ from standard written and oral forms. The result is the emergence of new varieties of languages. The main goal of SoSweet is to provide a detailed account of the links between linguistic variation and social structure in Twitter, both synchronically and diachronically. Through this specific example, and aware of its bias, we aim at providing a more detailed understanding of the dynamic links between individuals, social structure and language variation and change.

ANR DylNet

Participants : Jean Pierre Chevrot, Jean-Philippe Magué, Éric Fleury [correspondant] , Márton Karsai.

The DylNet project aims to observe and to characterise the relationships between childhood sociability and oral-language learning at kindergarten. With a view to this, it takes an multidisciplinary approach combining work on language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and network science. It will be implemented by following all the children (220) and teaching staff in one kindergarten over a 3-year period. The use of wireless proximity sensors will enable collection of social contacts throughout the study. The data on sociability will be linked to the results of language tests and recordings of verbal interactions used to follow the children’s progress on both a psycholinguistic level (lexicon, syntax, pragmatics) and a sociolinguistic level (features showing belonging to a social group). The aim is to better understand the mechanisms of adaptation and integration at work when young children first come into contact with the school context.

CNRS

CNRS CO3I

Participants : Jean Pierre Chevrot [correspondant] , Éric Fleury, Jean-Philippe Magué, Márton Karsai.

The CO3i project (Cognition individuelle et connaissance collective) is funded by the Mission pour l'Interdisciplinarité du CNRS. CO3i is an interdisciplinary theoretical project that aims at reanalyse and better articulate two distinctions: collective vs. individual and social vs. cognitive. Generally, the study of cognition is associated to the individual, whereas the social phenomena are seen as collective. In fact, there is an individual social cognition and there is a collective social knowledge. We have organised three days of interdisciplinary workshop confronting the views of sociologists, cognitive scientists, network scientists, linguists, and philosophers of science. Nourished by projects using various methodologies (massive data, experimentation, observation, corpus), the reflection will be finalised towards the publication of an international book. See: https://co3i.hypotheses.org/

Inria

Inria PRE LIAISON

Participants : Márton Karsai [correspondant] , Éric Fleury.

This project implements unsupervised deep learning approaches to infer correlations/patterns that exist between dynamic linguistic variables, the mesoscopic and dynamic structure of the social network, and their socio-economic attributes. This interdisciplinary project is positioned at the crossroads of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Network Science, Data Science and Machine Learning.

HCERES

HCERES/Inria

Participants : Éric Fleury, Eric, Philippe Guichard [correspondant] .

Bilateral project on the evolution of the Multi/inter-disciplinary of SHS. An increasing number of researchers in SHS has the desire to develop new researches with computer scientists or mathematicians because they want to apply new methodologies (according to various or numerous data) or to develop older ones, which can now be easily implemented online. Some also develop a reflexion on their discipline, with the idea that epistemological questions are revitalised by the internet. This reality invite them to discuss with philosophers or with other SHS scientists who have the same intuition (eg: cartography, visualisation).

The project is hence to measure these new forms or inter-multi-disciplinarity. The main source will be the publications of all academics of French SHS laboratories, to find out who writes a paper with somebody of a different discipline and/or laboratories. All data are anonimized,

Inria

IPL BetterNet

Participant : Eric, Philippe Guichard.

BETTERNET: An Observatory to Measure and Improve Internet Service Access from User Experience (https://www.inria.fr/en/research/research-teams/inria-project-labs). BetterNet aims at building and delivering a scientific and technical collaborative observatory to measure and improve the Internet service access as perceived by users. In this Inria Project Lab, we will propose new original user-centered measurement methods, which will associate social sciences to better understand Internet usage and the quality of services and networks with a particular focus on geography and cartography.