Section: Other Grants and Activities
International Initiatives
Australia
In the context of the FEAST program, we collaborated with Ken Redd of the Deakin University on the application of classification techniques to time use data to identify lifestyle differences across societies.
Brazil
We continue our collaboration on clustering and web usage mining with F.A.T. De Carvalho from Federal University of Pernambuco (Recife) and his team.
-
A scientific project submitted by Francisco De Carvalho and Yves Lechevallier has been accepted by FACEPE and INRIA. The project started from 04/2006 and ends on 03/2008. Researches and students are concerned by this project from AxIS and CIn-UFPE side. It aims at developing methods of clustering analysis and web usage mining tools.
-
Francisco de Carvalho and Renata Souza visited AxIS project. During their stays, in collaboration with Yves Lechevallier, they participated to the design of dynamic clustering models based on Mahalanobis distances suitable to symbolic interval data and they finalized the conception of dynamic clustering models based on Mahalanobis distances suitable to symbolic interval data. A complete paper has been submitted to the "Computational Statistics and Data Analysis" journal.
-
In collaboration with Yves Lechevallier, Alzennyr Da Silva and Fabrice Rossi, Francisco de Carvalho has participated to the conception of an approach concerning the contruction of summaries via clustering methods of data which evolves overtime. An application of this approach has been done on data from web usage which evolves on the time. A paper has been accepted for publication at EGC'07 french conference [83] .
-
Fabrice Rossi visited CIn-UFPE from 04 to 16/12/06. He worked with Renato Correa (a PHD student of prof. Tesesa Ludermir from CIn-UFPE) and Francisco De Carvalho on clustering of documents using SOM based on keywords associated by google and yahoo on the pages of Inria site.
-
Francisco de Carvalho and Yves Lechevallier participated to an advanced course on Knowledge Extraction by Interval Data Analysis in Caserta [44] (Belvedere di San Leucio, November 27-29, Italy).
Canada
Y. Lechevallier pursued his collaboration with A. Ciampi (Univ of McGill, Montréal). Guy Cucumel, Professor at the university of Montreal (Canada), visited us during one month at Inria Rocquencourt. He participated to the FEAST projet with Ken Redd.
G. Lévesque, professor at the university of Montréal (UQAM, Canada) visited the team on June 14, Inria Sophia Antipolis.
China
Marie-Aude Aufaure collaborates with Yanwu Yang, Institute of Software Research, Beijing, on user modelling for the semantic web and Yves Lechevallier collaborates with Hueiwen Wang, BUAA, Beijing on clustering methods.
India
M. Csernel collaborated with the Bhandrakar Institute (India) and the Mahendra Sanskrit University (Nepal) (cf. section 8.2.1 ) and also via the consortium members of EuropeAid projet of Asia-Information Technology and Communications (cf. sections 6.2.5 and 8.3.1 ).
Morocco
AxIS is involved in a France-Morocco thematic network in software engineering. In this context, B. Trousse co-supervises with Abdelaziz Marzark (University of Casablanca) a Ph.D. student: H. Behja (ENSAM, Meknès, Morocco). H. Behja spent several months with us for his thesis work. Mr. Marzark visited us for a week (july 16 - july 26). A meeting was organised at the University of Mirail on July 20th in order to prepare future France-Morocco collaborations. An R&D cooperation with Casablanca University and ENSAM (Meknes) is in progress (cf. section 7.1.4 ).
Romania
We maintained our contacts with the Computer Science department of the West University of Timisoara (Prof Viorel Negru), in particular via the SYNASC conference every year. We proposed a collaboration in the context of the Brancusi program on exploiting distribued calculus and grid computing for improving data mining algorithms.
Tunisia
Marie-Aude Aufaure and Yves Lechevallier are involved in co-supervision of masters and/or thesis (Riadi Lab, ENSI Tunis). These masters and thesis subjects are about web mining (usage, content and structure, using different methods) and ontology construction from heterogeneous sources.
Other Collaborations
New Zealand: Annika Hinza which leads the Information Systems and Databases Group at the University of Walkato (Hamilton, New Zealand) visited us at Sophia Antipolis on november 9th in order to identify future collaborations related to recommender systems in Tourism and transportation domains.
