Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

Elena Cabrio was:

• Co-chair of CLiC-it: Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, Turin, December.

• Challenge co-chair of The Web Conference (WWW), Lyon, France, April 23-27.

Catherine Faron Zucker was Program Chair together with Chiara Gandini of the 21st International Conference on Knowledge Engineering (EKAW 2018), November, Nancy.

Fabien Gandon was general co-chair of The Web Conference in Lyon, April, 2018.

Serena Villata was:

• Program Chair together with Eduardo Ferme of the 17th edition of the International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR), Tempe (Arizona), October,

• Chair together with Filip Radlinski of the “Poster and Demo” session of the Web Conference (WWW), Lyon, France, April,

• Chair together with Harko Verhagen, Mehdi Dastani and Jurgen Dix of the Dagstuhl Seminar on Normative Multi-Agent Systems NorMAS, April [67]

Member of the Organizing Committees

Michel Buffa organized the WebAudio Plugins Workshop at the Web Audio conference, Berlin, September 19-21.

Fabien Gandon was co-organizer of the Joint Day Inria Ministry of Culture 22/11/2018.

Alain Giboin was member of the organization committee of HCSE.

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

Olivier Corby was co-chair of the poster and demo track at EKAW, together with Philipp Cimiano.

Isabelle Mirbel was co-chair of the Doctoral Consortium at IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS).

Member of the Conference Program Committees

Michel Buffa: WebAudio Conference, ISWC.

Elena Cabrio: Association for Computational Linguistics conference (ACL), EMNLP, Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Olivier Corby: The Web Conference 2019, IC, Digital Health, EKAW, ICCS, ISWC, QuWeDa.

Catherine Faron Zucker: The Web Conference (WWW) 2019, ICCS, ISWC, Web Science, ESWC, IJCAI, Semantics, Web Audio Conference WAC, workshop WWW Educational Knowledge Management EKM, workshop WWW Reasoning on Data RoD, EGC 2019, EIAH, IC, CNIA.

Fabien Gandon: The Web Conference (WWW), IJCAI, ISWC (Blue Sky), EGC, SemWeb.Pro.

Alain Giboin: ISWC, VOILA Workshop (at ISWC), IC.

Isabelle Mirbel: International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAISE).

Oscar Rodríguez Rocha: KEOD, KSE, EKAW, IJCAI, ECAI, Semantics.

Andrea Tettamanzi: AAAI-19, AAMAS, ACM (SWA Track), EGC 2019, EKAW, PPSN, TheWebConf 2019, Web Intelligence, WILF, WIVACE. He was also senior PC Member of IJCAI/ECAI and got a mention as distinguished PC Member.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

Catherine Faron Zucker: Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle.

Isabelle Mirbel: Ingénierie des Systèmes d'Information.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

Elena Cabrio: Journal Argument and Computation.

Catherine Faron Zucker: The Journal of Web Science, Journal of Web Semantics (JWS), International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS), IEEE’s Transactions on Learning Technologies (TLT), Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (MTI), Ingénierie des systèmes d'information (ISI).

Andrea Tettamanzi: Semantic Web Journal, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.

Serena Villata: Journal of Logic and Computation, Argument & Computation, Artificial Intelligence.

Invited Talks

Michel Buffa: Presentation of the ANR WASABI project and of WebAudio technologies at the "Journée Ministère de la Culture - Inria" on 22/11 as part of the agreement between these two institutions, at the BnF.

Presentation of the WebAudio, WebMidi and WebAssembly W3C standards. Developer's Day of the TPAC conference in Lyon, October, Lyon, France.

AZKAR Project, post-mortem presentation Remote museum visits by an intelligent mobile robot, during Mobility session: Autonomous and Connected Vehicle and Smart Cities, RoboPACA conference, Sophia Antipolis, France.

Elena Cabrio: Argument Mining for Machine Translation, 13th Machine Translation Marathon, Prague, September 6th.

From Linguistics to Computation across the Mountains to the Sea, FBK PhD Day, February 2nd, Trento (Italy).

Olivier Corby: LDScript : a Linked Data Script Language, Inria Montpellier, March 21st.

Semantic Web of Linked Data, Inria Rennes, April 5th.

Fabien Gandon: Web Science, Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence Augmentation, Invited Talk at Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 18262 - 10 Years of Web Science: Closing The Loop, 27/06/2018.

The revolutions of the Web planet, Invited talks I3S General Assembly, Nice, 5/07/2018.

Adding Missing Links to bridge Natural and Artificial Intelligence on the Web, Invited talks at University of Queensland, Brisbane, 08/08/2018.

A Web linking all kinds of intelligence, Invited talks at « Przemiany Festival », Copernicus Science Centre, French Embassy in Warsaw, 15/09/2018.

Towards a Web linking all kinds of intelligence, Invited Talk at SophI.A Summit, 07/11/2018.

Andrea Tettamanzi: Invited talk on Guess What You Don’t Know: Towards an Evolutionary Epistemology of Ontology Learning at the 21st International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, Nancy, France, November 14th.

Conference on Unsupervised Learning at Amadeus, Sophia Antipolis, March 26th.

Tutorial talk on Uncertainty in the Semantic Web: The case of axiom scoring at the 12th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management, Milan, Italy, October 3rd.

Conference on Unsupervised Learning at Amadeus, Sophia Antipolis, October 19th.

Serena Villata has been invited to deliver an Early Career Spotlight Talk at the main conference in Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), namely the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (https://www.ijcai-18.org/early-career-talks/), in July in Stockholm (Sweden). The topic of this invited Early Career Spotlight Talk, Artificial Argumentation for Humans is detailed in the related publication [62].

Leadership within the Scientific Community

Fabien Gandon is:

• member of IW3C2 steering committee for The Web Conference (WWW series).

• member of SWSA steering committee for the ISWC conference (as general chair of ISWC 2019).

• member of ESWC conference steering committee.

• member of Web Science Trust Network

Scientific Expertise

Olivier Corby was reviewer for two project submissions at Université Gaston Berger, Senegal.

Catherine Faron Zucker:

• is the scientific referent of the Inria Learning Lab,

• was reviewer for the LabCom V3 2018 of the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR),

• was reviewer for the ARC6 call for projects of Auvergne Rhône Alpes region,

• was reviewer for the RIN call for projects of Normandie region.

Alain Giboin was reviewer for the Generic Call for Projects of the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR).

Research Administration

Olivier Corby is member of the scientific board of Université Côte d'Azur RISE academy (Network, Information, Digital Society) and member of the Scientific and Pedagogical committee of the Digital Systems for Humans, DS4H, graduate school at UCA.

Catherine Faron Zucker:

• is General Treasurer of the French Society for Artificial Intelligence (AFIA).

• was leading the steering committee of the AFIA college on Knowledge Engineering until June 2018.

• was member of the 2018 recruitment committee for young graduate scientists (CRCN) at Inria Lille.

• is member of the permanent commission of human resources (CPRH) of Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, section CNU 27

Fabien Gandon is:

• Vice-head of science for Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée (Délégué Scientifique Adjoint, DSA)

• Advisory Committee representative of Inria at the World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

• Director of the joint research Laboratory Qwant-Inria

• Representative of Inria in the Web Science Trust Network

• Leader of the research convention with the French Ministry of Culture-Inria

Alain Giboin:

• was member of the scientific committee of the IDEX Jedi Academy 5 ”Homme, Idées et Milieux”.

• was co-facilitator of the Idex Jedi Academy 5 initiative ”Humanités numériques” (with Arnaud Zucker, CEPAM).

• is member of the scientific committee of MSHS Axis 2 ”TIC, Usages et Communautés”.

• is co-facilitator of the initiative ”Artefacts et Coordination” of MSHS Axis 2.

• served as scientific correspondent for Inria Sophia Antipolis of COERLE (Inria Comité Opérationnel d’Evaluation des Risques Légaux et Ethiques), in tandem with the legal correspondent Nadège Camelio-Laurent.

Isabelle Mirbel was Vice-dean of the Science Faculty at University Nice-Sophia Antipolis until July 2018.

”Les lundis de l’ergonomie” is a cycle of seminars on Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and UX Design. Organized by Emilie Palagi and Louise Chaussade, this multidisciplinary series of talks attract academic and professional profiles but also anyone interested in social science’s approach to digital matters. This year, presentations took place with Naji Bouchiba, Guillene Ribière, Alessandro Trezzi, Manuel Boutet, Marc Relieu. The slides and some video records are available online (https://lundisergo.hypotheses.org/).

Editorial Activities

Catherine Faron Zucker is among the scientific editors of the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, Nov 2018, Nancy, France. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 11313, Springer  [65].

Serena Villata is among the authors of two editorial activities:

• Qingliang Chen, Paolo Torroni, Serena Villata: Preface. Fundam. Inform. 158(1-3): v-vii [13],

• Ugo Pagallo, Monica Palmirani, Pompeu Casanovas, Giovanni Sartor, Serena Villata: AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems - AICOL International Workshops 2015-2017: AICOL-VI@JURIX 2015, AICOL-VII@EKAW 2016, AICOL-VIII@JURIX 2016, AICOL-IX@ICAIL 2017, and AICOL-X@JURIX 2017, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10791, Springer [66].

Standardization

• Michel Buffa is member of the WebAudio W3C working group and is Academic Representative of Université Côte d’Azur at W3C (AC Rep).

• Fabien Gandon is Advisory Committee representative of Inria at the World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C)