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 co-chairing the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM) from December 2016 and member of the steering committee since 2016.

Y. Hadjadj-Aoul is co-charing ISNCC'2018, “The 5th International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications” (Co-sponsored by IEEE), Roma, Italy (May 2018)

Yann Busnel has been member of the Organization Committee of AlgoTel 2017 (19èmes Rencontres Francophones sur les Aspects Algorithmiques des Télécommunications), which held in Quiberon in June 2017.

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• Patrick Maillé and Bruno Tuffin were co-chairs of the International Workshop on Advanced Internet Charging and QoS technologies (ICQT'17), Tokyo, Japan, in November 2017

• Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul was co-chair of ISNCC'2017, “The 4th International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications” (Co-sponsored by IEEE), Marrakech, Morocco (May 2017)

Member of the Conference Program Committees

Yann Busnel was a member of the Program Committee of the following events:

• NCA 2017: 16th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, Boston, USA, October 2017.

• CoRes 2017: 2èmes Rencontres Francophones sur la Conception de Protocoles, l’Évaluation de Performance et l’Expérimentation des Réseaux de Communication, Quiberon, France, May 2017.

Pierre L'Ecuyer was a member of the Program Committee of the following events:

• MCM'2017: Eleventh International Conference on Monte Carlo Methods and its Applications, Montreal, Canada, July 2017.

• ICORES 2017: International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, Porto, Portugal, Feb. 2017.

Patrick Maillé was a member of the Program Committee of the following events:

• 15th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France, 15th - 19th May, 2017.

• NetEcon 2017: the 12th Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems and Computation, Cambridge, MA, USA, June 2017.

Bruno Sericola was a member of the Program Committee of the following event:

• ASMTA 2017: International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, 10-12 July 2017.

Gerardo Rubino was a member of the Program Committee of the following events:

• 11th International Conference on Monte Carlo Methods and Applications (MCM 2017), Montreal, Canada, July 3-7, 2017.

• XLIII Latin-American Conference in Computer Science (CLEI 2017), Córdoba, Argentina, September 4-8, 2017.

• IX International Congress of Computer Science and Telecommunications (COMTEL 2017), Lima, Peru, October 11-13, 2017.

Bruno Tuffin was a member of the Program Committee of the following events:

• 6th Workshop on Smart Data Pricing (SDP 2017), Workshop of IEEE INFOCOM 2017, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 2017.

• The Third International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (UNET 2017), Casablanca, Morocco, May 10-12, 2017.

• NetEcon 2017: the 12th Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems and Computation, Cambridge, MA, USA, June 2017.

• 11th International Conference on Monte Carlo Methods and Applications (MCM 2017), Montreal, Canada, July 3-7, 2017.

• 7th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH), Madrid, Spain, 29-31 July 2017.

• 14th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems & Services (GECON'2017), Biarritz-Anglet-Bayonne, France, Sept. 19-21, 2017.

• The International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications (WINCOM'17). Rabbat, Morocco, November 1-4, 2017.

• IEEE Globecom 2017, Singapore, Dec. 4-8, 2017

• 11th EAI International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (ValueTools 2017), Venice, Italy, December 5-7, 2017

Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul was a member of the Program Committee of the following events:

• IEEE Globecom 2017, Singapore, Dec. 4-8, 2017

• IEEE ICC 2017, Paris, France, May. 21-25, 2017

• IEEE WCNC 2017, San Francisco, USA, March 19-22

• IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2017), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, July 3-6, 2017

• IEEE International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC 2017), Marrakech, Morroco, May 16-18, 2017

Reviewer

Yann Busnel served as a reviewer for several major international conferences, such as DaWak 2017 (19th International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery).

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

Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul served as a reviewer for several major international conferences.

Gerardo Rubino served as a reviewer for several major international conferences, including those at which he served as a member of the Committee Program.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

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

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 Tuffin is an associate editor for the following journal:

• ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, since November 2008.

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 “Stochastic Models in Computer Science and Telecommunications Networks”, ISTE/WILEY, since March 2015.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

Yann Busnel served as a reviewer for several major international journals, such as TPDS (IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems).

In addition to the reports done during his associate editor and conference TPC member duties, Bruno Tuffin has reviewed papers in 2017 for IEEE JSAC, ACM TOIT, Telecom Policy, IEEE/ACM TON.

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

Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul served as a reviewer for several major international journals, such as TVT (IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology) and IEEE JSAC.

César Viho 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 served as a reviewer for several major international journals.

Invited Talks

Yann Busnel made several invited and keynote talks in 2017:

• Analyse et traitement de flux de données à large échelle, Invited talk at Journées non thématiques RESCOM 2017, Nice, France, January 2017.

• Analyse et traitement de flux de données à large échelle Invited talk at Journées ARC du GRD MACS 2017, Paris, France, May 2017.

• Ordonnancement dynamique pour un équilibrage de charge quasi-optimal dans les systèmes de traitement de flux, Plenary talk at AlgoTel 2017, Quiberon, France, June 2017.

• Comment créer un cloud social sécurisé pour ses données ? Le projet SocioPlug ! invited talk at 23ème Technoférence du Pôle Images & Réseaux, Nantes, France, December 2017.

B. Tuffin gave a keynote talk “Network Neutrality: Modeling, Challenges, and its Impact on Clouds” at the 14th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems & Services (GECON 2017), Keynote talk, Bayonne Anglet, France, September 19-21, 2017.

B. Tuffin gave the following seminar presentation:

• B. Tuffin. Neutralité du Net: introduction, modélisation et défis. ENS Rennes, Feb. 7, 2017.

• B. Tuffin. La fausse neutralité du net ? ENS-ENSSIB, Lyon, Mars 2017.

Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul led a panel on “Intelligence defined network for future smart cities” during the 4th International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC 2017).

Raymond Marie gave a seminar at the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong during a two-week stay as a guest.

G. Rubino made several invited and keynote talks in 2017. Two around Monte Carlo techniques:

• “Rare events in simulation: issues and techniques”, plenary talk, for the micro-simulation community (see [36]).

• “Dependability Analysis through Monte Carlo Methods: The Case of Rare Events”, a tutorial (see [33]).

and two around transient analysis of Markovian processes:

• “On the derivation of closed-form expressions of the solutions to (possibly infinite) some simple linear systems of ODEs”, keynote for researchers in dynamical systems and differential equations (see [35]).

• “New results on the transient analysis of some fundamental queuing systems”, keynote oriented to modeling (see [34]).

Leadership within the Scientific Community

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

Yann Busnel is a member of the Steering Committee of the RESCOM research group at GDR CNRS RSD.

Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul is a founding member of Special Interests Group “IEEE Sig on Big Data with Computational Intelligence”, under the IEEE COMSOC Big Data TC (since June 2017).

Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul is a member of the GT ARC (Automatique et Réseaux de Communication) scientific committee (since Nov. 2017)

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.

Scientific Expertise

César Viho has reviewed project proposals for the ANR and for CIFRE contracts for the ANRT.

Gerardo Rubino has participated as an expert for several institutions abroad, and for different tasks (recruitments, promotions, prizes): the University of Vienna, Austria, the University of New South Wales, Australia, the UTFSM, Chile.

Research Administration

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

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

• Bruno Tuffin was a member of Inria Rennes' “Inria delegation” selection committee.

• Bruno Tuffin was a member of Inria Rennes' post-doc selection committee.

• Yann Busnel is head of “Network System, Cybersecurity and Digital law” Research Department at IMT Atlantique.

• Yann Busnel is member of Development Council of Computer Sciences Master at University of Nantes.

• 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.

• César Viho is director of the MathSTIC (Mathematics, Electronics and Computer Sciences) doctoral school in charge of managing the recruitment of around 1100 PhD students and their activities during their doctorate, in all the concerned areas of the UBL (Université Bretagne Loire).