Section: Other Grants and Activities

Regional Initiatives

Due to the bi-localization of the team, we are involved with two regions: PACA and Ile-de-France.

``Pôles de compétitivité''

• ``Pôle de compétitivité SCS - Solutions Communicantes Sécurisées'':

  AxIS (B. Senach) participates to the preparation of the ROSCOE project, which aimed at enabling communication between vehicles. Our partners are: Hitachi Europe (leader), VU Log, Nexo, Inria (Mascotte), CNRT Télius, etc.

• ``Pôle de compétitivité - Pégase'' AxIS (B. Senach and B. Trousse) participates at the preparation of several projects with different partners:

  • CEFH ("Centre d'Etude des Facteurs Humains") aims at building an excellence center of human factors in risk systems. AxIS will be involved in the design and evaluation of decision aids based on usage data mining (partner: Areva TA)

  • In collaboration with Alcatel Alenia Space, AxIS is involved in 3 other projects with a different role in each one

  • Control room design: technical assistance on ergonomic aspects (user's need analysis, man machine interface design and evaluation )

  • Numerical modeling: technical assistance on man machine interface design and evaluation

  • Automatic editing of operational instructions: AxIS provides links between Alcaltel teams and experts in this domain (Areva TA).

  B. Senach and B. Trousse participated to a meeting on December 5th between the leaders of Pégase and different research teams at Inria Sophia Antipolis. AxIS participation to the CEFH project (see above) is required as well as in a large project aiming to design the futur airports. Other participation will be considered according to the forthcoming projects.

• ``Pôle de compétitivité'' Cap Digital: AxIS has been identified as a potential partner by a special interest group "Numerical Heritage". AxIS could answer to future invitations to tender sent by the Pole "Cap Digital".

• Software: AxIS has began the design of a tool which could facilitate the mapping between Inria teams and thematic invitation to tender sent by Research Institutions (ANR).

Other initiatives

• VISA Action (Inria Sophia Antipolis) collaboration with G. Gallais and P. Rives (VISTA team, Inria Sophia Antipolis), M. Riveill (Rainbow team, I3S UNSA) on the topic ``adaptation and evaluation of services in the context of transports'' via the MobiVIP project, involving 22 partners (January 2004, December 2006).

• In October, AxIS (B. Senach) participated, as an observer, to the monthly progress review of the ITER project in Cadarache. AxIS captured information about the requirements for audio conference planning when participants are largely scattered around the world (USA, Korean, Japan, India, China, Europe) and about the use of advanced communication tools (shared screens). This action was conducted for Inria "Comorale" workgroup.

• Eurecom, EHESS, Acacia (Inria Sophia-Antipolis): AxIS (B. Senach) is involved in the multidisciplinary workgroup "Usage et Utilisabilité" (B. Conein, EHESS) which stands at Eurecom (social and human sciences, Artificial Intelligence ). The aim of this informal workgroup is to discuss research thematics focused on the use of new technologies and to adapt current methodologies to improve their study. The making up of the next seminar (Shared knowledge) is in progress.

• Ilog & Acacia (Inria Sophia Antipolis): AxIS has participated to a meeting of the local workgroup "Usable Intranet" who develops and studies tools for enhancing collaborative work (use of wiki, social tagging).

• Lirmm (Montpellier, M-L Mugnier): AxIS participated to a meeting Inria Sophia Antipolis-Lirmm (december 19) and presented its researches in order to identify potential collaborations.

• Laboratoire des Usages, CNRT Télius, http://www.telius.org , Sophia Antipolis.

• CPER Télius FOCUS: in the framework of a grant between government and regional administration, AxIS proposed the design of a usage mining platform. The FOCUS platform will provide to its "clients" tools and services to get a precise understanding of how people use new technologies. A complete analysis chain is needed in usage mining field to deal with large scale experiments such a ubiquitous computing where a massive flow of temporal data has to be processd on the fly.

• RTRA SISCOM: AxIS participated to a proposal aiming at the creation of a new thematic network (SISCOM ) supporting inter-regional cooperation.

• RTRA Digiteo (http://www.digiteo-labs.fr/ ): AxIS (M-A. Aufaure) participated at the inauguration of Digiteo Labs, the first research pole in information and technology science in Ile de France, October 4th, Polytechnic. The Digiteo teams are involved in two ``pôles'' System@tique and Cap Digital. Research works in Digiteo are dedicated to intelligent systems design and development.

• Ecole Française d'Extrême Orient (E.F.E.O): In the framework of It Asia contract Francois Patte organized in Pune (india) in collaboration with Marc Csernel (AxIS Rocquencourt) a meeting for the dissemination on the results obtained during the contract.

• Supelec: our partner Marie-Aude Aufaure from Supelec collaborates with others Supelec members [41] .