Section: Dissemination

Formation

University Teaching

AxIS is an associated team for the ``STIC Doctoral school'' at the University of Nice Sophie Antipolis (UNSA) and the team members are teaching in various university curriculums:

• ``DEA Informatique'' (resp. Mr Kounalis) at UNSA Sophia Antipolis: Optional tutorial on ``Web usage Mining'' (F. Masséglia, B. Trousse).

• ``Licence professionnelle franco-italienne: Statistiques et Traitement Informatique de Données (STID)'' (resp. J. Lemaire) at UNSA, Menton: Supervision of a student project (60h by students, 10 students, 30h supervised) on Mining HTTP Logs From Inria's Web Sites : S. Chelcea, B. Trousse.

• International University of Monaco, three courses (D. Tanasa): Programming Techniques (90h), Business Analysis and Systems Design (45h), Management of Information Systems (25h).

• ``DEA Modélisation et traitement des données et des connaissances'' (resp: S. Pinson) of the University Paris IX-Dauphine (4h): Tutorial on ``Analyse des connaissances numériques et Symboliques'' : Y. Lechevallier.

• ``DESS Mathématiques appliquées et sciences économiques (MASE)'' of the University Paris IX-Dauphine: Tutorial (18h) on ``Méthodes neuronales en classification'' : Y. Lechevallier.

• ``ENSAE'': Tutorial on ``Data Mining'' (12h): Y. Lechevallier.

• ``ENIT /Tunis'': Tutorial on ``Data Mining et méthodes neuronales'' (12h): Y. Lechevallier.

Ph.D. Thesis

Ph.D. defence in 2005:

1. D. Tanasa, (start: end of 2001), ``Web Usage Mining: Contributions to Intersites Logs Preprocessing and Sequential Pattern Extraction with Low Support'' [16] ), University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (director: B. Trousse), june 3rd.

Ph.D. in progress:

1. S. Chelcea, (start: end of 2002), ``Agglomerative 2-3 Hierarchical Clustering: theoretical and applicative study'', Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis (directors: J. Lemaire and B. Trousse with the support of P. Bertrand on 2-3 AHC).

2. H. Behja, (start: end of 2002), ``Gestion de points de vues multiples dans l'analyse d'un observatoire sur le Web'', University of Casablanca, (directors: A. Marzark and B. Trousse). This thesis is done in the context of the STIC Software engineering network of France-Morocco cooperation (2002-2005).

3. A. Baldé, (start: end of 2003), ''Extraction de méta-données à partir de prototypes issus d'une classification'' (Metadata Extraction from classification prototypes), University of Paris IX Dauphine, (directors: E. Diday and Y. Lechevallier) with the participation of B. Trousse and M.-A. Aufaure (Supelec).

4. A Da Silva, (start: October 2005), "Modélisation de données agrégées ou complexes par l'approche symbolique, application au Web Usage Mining", University of Paris IX Dauphine (directors: Edwin Diday and Yves Lechevallier).

5. A. Marascu, (start: October 2005), ``Extraction de Motifs Séquentiels dans les Data Streams'', Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis (director: Yves Lechevallier) with the participation of B. Trousse and F. Masseglia).

F. Rossi is a member of the thesis committee of N. Delannay(start: October 2003) on ``Méthodes neuronales pour les données structurées'', Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium (director: Michel Verleysen).

AxIS researchers were members of Ph.D. committees in 2005:

• Doru Tanasa, ``Web Usage Mining: Contributions to Intersites Logs Preprocessing and Sequential Pattern Extraction with Low Support'', defended on 3rd. June 2005: B. Trousse, F. Masséglia

• Cherif Mballo, `` Ordre, codage et extension du critère de Kolomogorov-Smirnov pour la segmentation de données symboliques'', December 12, Y. Lechevallier

• Hani Hamdan, ``Developpement de méthodes de classification pour le contrôle d'émission accoustique d'appareils sous pression'', November 22, Y. Lechevallier

• Nathalie Villa ``Éléments d'apprentissage en statistique fonctionnelle - Classification et régression fonctionnelles par réseaux de neurones et Support Vector Machine'', defended on October 21th, 2005: F. Rossi

• Jonathan Mamou, ``XSEarch, un moteur de recherche pour XML combinant structure et contenu'', Univ. Paris 11, defended on 30th September 2005, Orsay: A.-M. Vercoustre

Internships

We welcomed eleven students in AXIS this year:

1. R. Busseuil(supervisors S. Chelcea and B. Trousse), ENS Cachan and Inria Sophia-Antipolis, ``Classification des itinéraires pour l'aide á la navigation assistée par GPS'' [47] .

2. M. Fegas(supervisor A.-M. Vercoustre), University of Orsay Paris-11 and Inria Rocquencourt, ``Classification de documents XML'' [48] .

3. M. Dufresne(supervisors Marc Csernel, Yves lechevallier, Francois Patte), Univ. Paris XIII Institut galilée, Inria Rocquencourt, Interactive presentation of Critical edition of Sankrit texts.

4. S. Kebbache(supervisors Marc Csernel, Yves lechevallier), Univ. Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Inria Rocquencourt, Comparison of Sanskrit texts, aligment procedures.

5. A. Marascu(supervisor F. Masséglia), University of Nice and Inria Sophia-Antipolis, ``Extraction de motifs séquentiels dans les data streams'' [52] .

6. S. Sellah(supervisors F. Masséglia and B. Trousse), University of Lyon 2 and Inria Sophia Antipolis, [53] .

7. S. Tandabany(supervisors S. Chelcea and B. Trousse), University of Orsay Paris-11, ENS Lyon and Inria Sophia Antipolis, ``Elaborating a Distance for Clusterig Homogeneous Sanskrit Documents'' [55] .

Four of which were in the context of the Inria international internship program:

1. A. Da Silva(supervisors Y. Lechevallier and B. Trousse), Recife University of Permenbouc (Brazil), Inria Rocquencourt, Inria International Internship Program.

2. C. Garboni, West University of Timisoara (Romania) and Inria Sophia Antipolis, Inria International Internship Program [49] .

3. S. Gul(supervisor A.-M. Vercoustre), MIT and Inria Rocquencourt, XML Document mining (in progress), Inria Internship Program.

4. N. Lopes Calvacanti Junior(supervisor F. Rossi), Federal Univ. of Pernambuco, Brazil and Inria Rocquencourt, Implementation of a fast Dissimilarity Self-Organizing Map (in progress), Inria Internship Program.