Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• Panayotis Mertikopoulos has been the co-organizer of the MODE Days (03/2017).

• Arnaud Legrand has co-organized the International Workshop on Reproducibility in Parallel Computing (RepPar) in conjunction with IPDPS.

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Nicolas Gast was co-organizer of the workshop YEQT XI: “Winterschool on Energy Systems” organized in TU Eindhoven in December 2017).

• E. Veronica Belmega was co-organizer of a day of the GdR ISIS about “Game Theory, Optimisation and Learning: Interplay and Applications to Signal Processing” (8 November 2017).

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• Nicolas Gast was co-chair of the track “Performance Evaluation, Control, and Optimization (incl. queueing, game theory, machine learning)” of the convergence ITC 29.

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Bruno Gaujal and Nicolas Gast have been member of the IFIP Performance Committee.

• Nicolas Gast has been member of the ACM Sigmetrics and ACM E-Energy committees.

• Arnaud Legrand has been member of the CCgrid, Cluster and PPAM committees.

• E. Veronica Belmega was a member of the technical program committees of Green Computing, Networking and Communications Symposium at ICNC 2017, IEEE BlackSeaComm, IEEE ICC 2017, Wireless Communications Symposium (ICC'17 WCS), and IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• E. Veronica Belmega is an executive editor for the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies.

• Nicolas Gast is member of the editorial board of Performance Evaluation.

• E. Veronica Belmega serves as an Associate Editor for the IET Signal Processing journal.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

The members of the POLARIS team regularly review articles for JPDC, DAM, IEEE Transactions on Networking/Automatic Control/Cloud Computing/Parallel and Distributed Computing/Information Theory/Signal Processing/Wireless Communications, SIAM Journal on Optimization/Control and Optimization, and others.

Invited Talks

• Arnaud Legrand has been invited to give invited keynotes on reproducible research: (Keynote at the LIRIS, Lyon, Nov. 2017, at the PRECIS Spring school, Fréjus, May 2017, at the Grenoble Data Science Institute, Apr. 2017, at the LIG, Grenoble, Mar. 2017 and at the ENS Rennes, Feb. 2017.)

• Bruno Gaujal has been invited to give the opening lecture for the class of 2021 at ENS Cachan, Sept. 2017.

• Nicolas Gast gave an invited talk at IBM New-York in April 2017 and at Imperial College London in December 2017.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• Panayotis Mertikopoulos is a member of the committee of the MODE group of the SMAI.

• Bruno Gaujal is a member of the scientific bureau of the GDRIM.

Arnaud Legrand organize a series of webinars on reproducible research and whose aim is to introduce the audience to one particular aspect of reproducible research and to illustrate how this aspect can be addressed with state-of-the-art tools. To this end, experts of a given topic are invited and their seminar is screencast so that researchers from other universities can easily follow it. This year, the following topics have been covered:

1. Publication Modes Favoring Reproducible Research

2. Artifact evaluation in computer systems' conferences

3. Experimental testbeds in Computer Science

4. Statistical and Reproducibility Issues in Human Computer Interactions

5. An Approach to Practical Falsifiable Research: the Popper Convention

All the corresponding videos and materials are available at the following address: https://github.com/alegrand/RR_webinars/

Research Administration

• Bruno Gaujal has been the president of the jury for hiring CR2 Researchers in Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes.

• E. Veronica Belmega was member of an Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) hiring committee, ENSEA.

• Nicolas Gast is member of the “conseil du laboratoire” of the LIG (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble).

• Bruno Gaujal is member of the “bureau du LIG” (Laboratoire d'informatique de Grenoble)

• Panayotis Mertikopoulos serves as the graduate students liaison (chargé de mission doctorants) for the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble

• Bruno Gaujal was president of the CR2 admissibility jury of Inria-Grenoble.