Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events: Organisation

We are organizing the mini-symposium entitled “Probabilistic approaches for studying blockchain dynamics” of the 8th European Congress of Mathematics, 5 - 11 July 2020, Portorož, Slovenia This mini-symposium aims at bringing together international researchers active on blockchain analysis, and allowing the interaction between different expertises: Markov chain, game theory, fluid limits as well as on different types of stochastic processes. It also aims at gather mathematicians using a theoretical approach to analyze blockchain with those characterizing blockchains through simulations or numerical techniques, and thus it will encourage new collaborations.

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul was the General Chair for the The 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM'2019), Co-sponsored by IEEE, in Paris (France), December 2019.

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Gerardo Rubino and Bruno Tuffin are members of the Steering Committee of the International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation (RESIM) and of Monte Carlo Method Conference (MCM) series.

• Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul is member of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM). He is co-chairing the Steering Committee since 2016.

Scientific Events: Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• Bruno Tuffin was TPC co-chair of the 14th Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems and Computation (NetEcon 2019), June 2019, Phoenix, AZ, USA.

• Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul was TPC co-chair of The 11th Wireless Days Conference (WD'2019, Co-sponsored by IEEE, Manchester, April 2019, Manchester, UK.

• Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul was TPC track chair of the “Satellites IoT and M2M Networks” track, for The 2nd International Conference on Smart Communications and Networking (SmartNets 2019), Co-sponsored by IEEE, December 2019, Sharm El Sheik, Egypt.

• Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul was TPC track chair of the “Cloud & Fog Computing” track, for International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC 2019), Co-sponsored by IEEE, June 2019, Istanbul, Turkey.

Member of the Conference Program Committees

Bruno Tuffin was TPC member of the following conferences:

• ValueTools 2019, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, March 12-15, 2019

• First IEEE Workshop on the ECOnomics of Fog, Edge, and Cloud Computing (ECOFEC 2019), in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2019, Paris, France

• IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2019), May 20-24 2019, Shanghai, China.

• 12th International Conference on Monte Carlo Methods and Application (MCM 2019), Sydney, Australia, July 8-12, 2019.

• 31th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 31), 27-29 August 2019, Budapest, Hungary.

• The International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (UNet'19), September 16-19, 2019, Limoges, France.

• GECON 2019 - 16th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Software, and Services, Leeds, UK, 17-29 Sept. 2019

• The 2019 IEEE 2nd 5G World Forum (5GWF'19), Dresden, Germany, Sept 30-Oct 2, 2019.

• Financial Risk Track, Winter Simulation Conference (WSC'19), National Harbor, MD, USA, December 8-11, 2019.

Patrick Maillé was TPC member of the following conferences:

• ACM MobiHoc 2019, 20th International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, Catania, Italy, July 2-5, 2019

• IFIP WIOPT 2019, 17th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, Avignon, France, June 3–7, 2019

• IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2019), May 20-24 2019, Shanghai, China.

• Algotel 2019, Narbonne, France, June 3-7, 2019

• NetEcon 2019, 14th workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems and Computation, Phoenix, AZ, USA, June 28, 2019

• GIIS 2019, Global Information Infrastructure Symposium, Paris, France, December 18-20, 2019

• AdHoc-Now 2019, 18th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless, Luxembourg, October 1-3, 2019

• ValueTools 2019, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, March 12-15, 2019

Yann Busnel was a member of the program committee of the following events:

• NCA 2019: 18th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, Boston, USA, September 2019.

• AdHoc Now 2019: 18th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless, Luxembourg, October 2019.

Bruno Sericola was TPC member of the following conference:

• ASMTA 2019 : 25th International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications, Moscow, Russia, October 23 — 25, 2019.

Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul was a member of the program committee of the following events (partial list):

• IEEE Globecom 2019 - IEEE Global Communications Conference, Waikoloa, HI, USA, December 9-13, 2019.

• IEEE ICC 2018 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, Shanghai, China, MO, USA, May 20-24, 2019.

• IEEE WCNC 2019 - IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, April 15-19, 2019.

• IEEE CCNC 2019 - IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, Las Vegas, USA, January 11-14, 2019.

• IEEE MASCOTS - 2019 - IEEE conference on “Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation On Computer and Telecommunication Systems”, Rennes, France, October 22-25, 2019.

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

• QEST: 16th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems, Glasgow, Scotland, Sep. 2019.

• e-Health: 7th International workshop of e-Health Pervasive Wireless Applications and Services, Lyon, France, Oct. 2019.

• MASCOTS: 28th IEEE International Symposium on the Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, Nice, France, Nov. 2020.

• ICN: 19th International Conference on Networks, Lisbon, Portugal, Feb. 2020.

Reviewer

Yann Busnel, Bruno Tuffin, Bruno Sericola, Yassine Hadjadh-Aoul, Gerardo Rubino, and César Viho served as reviewers for several major international conferences.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

Bruno Tuffin serves as

• Area Editor (simulation): INFORMS Journal on Computing, since Jan. 2015.

• Associate Editor: ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, since July 2009.

Patrick Maillé serves as

• Associate Editor: Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (Elsevier), since April 2019.

• Associate Editor: IEEE Open Journal of Communications Society, since July 2019.

Bruno Sericola serves as 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.

Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul was a guest editor of a special issue on: “Emerging topics in wireless communications for future smart cities” for the MDPI International Journal.

Gerardo Rubino is Associate Editor of the Journal of Dynamics & Games, https://www.aimsciences.org/journal/2164-6066.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

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

• Bruno Sericola, Bruno Tuffin and Gerardo Rubino served as reviewers for several major international journals.

• Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul served as a reviewer for several major international journals such as: IEEE Journal On Selected Area of Communication JSAC “Series on Network Softwarization & Enablers”, IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technologies TVT, IEEE Communication Letters, IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing TMC, IEEE Access, Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems FGCS, Journal of Network and Computer Applications JNCA.

Invited Talks

Bruno Tuffin gave the following invited talks:

• B. Tuffin. Rare-Event Simulation of Regenerative Systems, Peking University, China, October 10, 2019.

• B. Tuffin. Monte Carlo Simulation and Rare Event Estimation, Mathematical and computational modeling of rare events in complex systems, Recife, Brazil, November 18-20, 2019.

Yann Busnel made several invited and keynote talks in 2019:

• Blockchain Technology : Synchronization, Consensus and Token Economy. Cycle of seminars as Invited Professor at VJTI Mumbai, India, September 2019.

• The need for enlightened sampling in the supervision of large-scale networks. Keynote at the International Conference on Data Sciences and Engineering, IIT Patna, India, September 2019

• Large-scale data streaming. Invited seminar at FEIT, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, August 2019

• Le besoin d’échantillonnage avisé dans la supervision de réseaux à grande échelle. Invited seminar at Laboratoire I3S de Sophia-Antipolis, France, April 2019

• Blockchain opportunities in Europe & Diploma certification using the blockchain @ IMT Atlantique. Invited talk at International workshop on Blockchain for Global Good, VJTI Mumbai, India, March 2019

• Le besoin d’échantillonnage avisé dans la supervision de réseaux à grande échelle. Invited seminar at Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble, France, January 2019.

Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul made several invited and keynote talks in 2019:

• Reliable Network Function Placement using Evolutionary Algorithms. Invited tutorial during the 8th IEEE International Conference on Smart Communications in Network & Technologies (SaCoNet), Oran, Algeria, Dec. 2019

• Virtual Network Function Forwarding Graph Embedding in 5G and post 5G Networks. Invited Keynote during the 8th IEEE International Conference on Smart Communications in Network & Technologies (SaCoNet), Oran, Algeria, Dec. 2019

• Efficient support of the upcoming Massive number of IoT devices & in future wireless networks. Invited talk during the national seminar, SEOC Day, on Embedded Systems and Communicating Objects, Paris France, April 2019

Gerardo Rubino made several invited and keynote talks in 2019:

• Training recurrent Random Neural Networks: first and second-order techniques, reservoir models, numerical aspects. Invited talk at ISCIS'19, Conference on Modelling Methods in Computer Systems, Networks and Bioinformatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Paris, Oct. 15–16, 2019.

• Relations between irreducible and absorbing Markov chains. Invited talk at the Fall Western Sectional Meeting of the AMS, Riverside, California, November 9–10, 2019.

• Rare event analysis in technological catastrophes. Keynote at the 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM), Paris, December 18–20, 2019.

Gerardo Rubino gave a seminar at the Computer Science Department of the UDELAR, in Nov. 2019, about Network Tomography. He also gave a 3 hours-tutorial on dependability analysis at the University Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile, in Jan. 2019.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• Bruno Tuffin is an elected member of I-sim council of Informs society, 2018-2020.

• 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 scientific committee of GT ARC (Automatique et Réseaux de Communication) scientific committee (since Nov. 2017).

• Gerardo Rubino belongs to the CSV (the technical committee) of the Images and Networks Cluster of Brittany, France, since its foundation.

• Gerardo Rubino is the coordinator of the research action “Analytics and machine learning”, in collaboration with Nokia Bell Labs.

Research Administration

• Yann Busnel is Head of « Network System, Cybersecurity and Digital law » Research Department at IMT Atlantique (2017–*).

• Yann Busnel is Head of « Network, Telecommunication and Services » Research Department (D2) at IRISA (2019–*).

• 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.

• Bruno Sericola is member of the research commission of the academic council of University of Rennes 1.

• César Viho is member of the HdR commission of the scientific council of Université Rennes 1.

• César Viho is the director of the MathSTIC doctoral school of Université Bretagne Loire.