Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

Regional Initiatives

CoMe4ACloud

Participant : Thomas Ledoux [coordinator] .

The project, started in October 2016, was completed in March 2018. CoMe4ACloud was an Atlanstic 2020 funded project and supported a one year post-doc position. The project was led by STACK research team and involved also AtlanModels and TASC, all of them from the LS2N and situated at IMT Atlantique.

The high-level objective of the CoMe4ACloud (Constraints and Model Engineering for Autonomic Clouds) project was to provide an end-to-end solution for autonomic Cloud services. To that end, we relied on techniques of Constraint Programming so as a decision-making tool and Model-driven Engineering to ease the automatic generation of the so-called autonomic managers as well as their synchronization with the managed system (i.e., the Cloud layers).

This year, we have focus on the dissemination of the results. We got the best paper award of CLOSER 2018 (the 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science) [12] and published in the journal FGCS [3]. We also gave a pitch in the annual Atlanstic 2020 meeting in November.

See https://come4acloud.github.io for more information.

Oncoshare

Participant : Mario Südholt [coordinator] .

The ONCOSHARe project (ONCOlogy big data SHAring for Research) will demonstrate, through a multidisciplinary cooperation within the Western CANCEROPOLE network, the feasibility and the added value of a Cancer Patient Centered Information Common for in-silico research. The STACK team will work on challenges to the security and the privacy of user data in this context.

This project is financed by three French regions from 2018-2021.

SyMeTRIC

Participant : Jean-Marc Menaud [coordinator] .

SyMeTRIC is a regional federated project in Systems Medicine funded by the Pays de la Loire french region. Systems Medicine approaches can be compared to Systems Biology. They aim at integrating several information sources to design and validate bio-models and biomarkers to anticipate and enhance patients follow-up (diagnosis, treatment response prediction, prognosis).

This project is ending in 2018.

SysMics

Participants : Jean-Marc Menaud, Mario Südholt [coordinator] .

The SysMics project aims at federating the NExT scientific community toward a common objective: anticipate the emergence of systems medicine by co-developing 3 approaches in population-scale genomics: genotyping by sequencing, cell-by-cell profiling and microbiome analysis. STACK investigates new means for secure and privacy-aware computations in the context of personalized medecine, notably genetic analyses.

This project is financed by the Nantes excellency initiative in Medecine and Informatics (NExT) from 2018-22.