Section: Dissemination

Promotion of the Scientific Community

Journals and Books

AxIS is involved in the management and the edition of 3 journals and 2 books:

• Special issue on “Multimedia Data Mining” of the Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP Journal, vol 35:1, Springer, 2007): F. Masseglia (co-editor)

• the second special issue of the RNTi journal on “Fouille de données complexes”: B. Trousse (co-editor)

• member of the RSTI scientific committee related to the “ISI, L'OBJET, RIA, TSI” journals (Hermès publisher): B. Trousse

• La revue MODULAD (electronic journal, http://www.modulad.fr/ ): Y. Lechevallier is one of the four editors. F. Rossi is a member of the editorial board and S. Aubin is the webmaster of the web site.

• Two books on data mining, published by IGI Global in 2007: “Data Mining Patterns: New Methods and Applications” (ISBN 978-1599041629) and “Successes and New Directions in Data Mining” (ISBN 978-1599046457): F. masseglia (co-editor)

AxIS members belongs to editorial boards of four international journals, six national journals (or some of their special issues):

• Neurocomputing: F. Rossi ( http://www.elsevier.com/locate/issn/09252312 )

• the Co-Design Journal (Editor: S. Scrivener, Coventry University, UK - Publisher: Swets & Zeitlinger): B.Trousse

• the Journal of Symbolic Data Analysis (JSDA) (Editor: E. Diday, electronic journal http://www.jsda.unina2.it ): Y. Lechevallier, F. Rossi and B. Trousse.

• European Journal of GIS and Spatial Analysis (“Revue Internationale de Géomatique”) http://geo.e-revues.com : M-A. Aufaure

• the RSTI RIA journal (“Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle”) (Hermès publisher; editor-in-chief: M. Pomerol): B. Trousse.

• the I3 (Information, Interaction, Intelligence) electronic journal of the GDR-I3 (editor-in-chief: C. Garbay et H. Prade) http://www.Revue-I3.org/ : B. Trousse.

• Special Issue "Points de vue" de la revue RSTI “L'OBJET' (Publisher, Hermès Editor-in-chief: B. Coulette): B. Trousse

• RNTI Special Issue "Modélisation des connaissances" (Publisher, Cépaduès Editions, Editor-in-chief: H. Briand and J. Blanchard): B. Trousse

• RNTI Special Issue "Fouille du Web" (Publisher, Cépaduès Editions, editors-in-chief: C. raynaud and G. Venturini): M-A. Aufaure

• the I3 electronic journal of the GDR-I3 (editor-in-chief: C. Garbay et H. Prade) - Special issue “Visualisation et extraction des connaissances”: M-A. Aufaure

AxIS members were reviewers for 13 international and national journals and for 4 international books:

• INS International Journal on Information Sciences: F. Masseglia ( http://ees.elsevier.com/ins/ )

• JAIR Journal of Artificial Intelligent Research: F. Masseglia ( http://www.jair.org )

• IJBET International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (special issue on Warehousing and Mining Complex Data: Applications to Biology, Medicine, Behavior, Health and Environment): F. Masseglia ( http://www.inderscience.com/ijbet/ )

• TKDE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering: F. Masseglia, B. Trousse ( http://www.computer.org/tkde/ )

• IJHCS International Journal of Human-Computer Studies: M-A. Aufaure

• DKE International Journal on Data Knowledge and Engineering: M-A. Aufaure, F. Masseglia

• AAI (Applied Artificial Intelligence): M-A. Aufaure

• Econometric Reviews: F. Rossi

  ( http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713597248 )

• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks: F. Rossi ( http://ieee-cis.org/pubs/tnn/ )

• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence: F. Rossi ( http://www.computer.org/tpami/ )

• Computational Statistics and Data Analysis: F. Rossi ( http://www.elsevier.com/locate/csda )

• Neural Processing Letters: F. Rossi

  ( http://www.springer.com/journal/11063/about )

• Neurocomputing: F. Rossi

  ( http://www.elsevier.com/locate/issn/09252312 )

Program Committees

Several AxIS members were involved in national or international conferences/worhshops as members of Program Committee.

National Conferences/Workshops

• EGC 2007: Namur, Belgique (Jan.23-26): Y. Lechevallier, B. Trousse

• INFORSID 2007: Perros-Guirec, France (May 22-25): B. Trousse

• EDA 2007: Poitiers, France (June 7-8): M-A. Aufaure

• Plate-forme AFIA 2007 (Atelier RàPC): Grenoble, France (July 2, 2007): B. Trousse

• ASD 2007 (Atelier sur les systèmes décisionnels): Sousse, Tunisie (October 19-20, 2007) - M-A. Aufaure ( http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/~asd/asd2007/ )

• H2PTM 2007: Hammamet, Tunisie (Oct. 29-31): B. Trousse

• Ateliers EGC 2007: Namur, Belgium, January 2007

  • “Fouille de Données Complexes”: M-A. Aufaure, B. Trousse, F. Masseglia

  • “Modélisation de Connaissances”: B. Trousse

International Conferences/Workshops

• ESTSP: Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland (Feb. 7-9): F. Rossi

• EuroIMSA 2007: Chamonix, France (March 14-16): A-M. Vercoustre

• WDSA 2007: Caserta, Italy (March 15-16): Y. Lechevallier

• ESANN 2007: Bruges, Belgium (Apr. 25-27): F. Rossi

• IF&GIS 2007 (Third International workshop on Information Fusion and Geographic Information Systems): St-Petersbourg, Russia (May 25-27, 2007) - M-A. Aufaure ( http://www.springer.com/east/home?SGWID=5-102-22-173674025-0 )

• CSCWD 2007: Nanjing, China (April 26-28) - B. Trousse ( http://2006.cscwid.org/

• IWANN 2007: San Sebastián, Spain (June 20–22): F. Rossi

• ACM SIGIR 2007: Amsterdam, the Netherlands (July 23-27): A-M. Vercoustre

• ISPA 2007: Niagara Falls, ON, Canada (August 29-31): F. Masseglia

• DocEng 2007: Winnipeg, Canada (August 28-31): A-M. Vercoustre

• ICANN 2007: Porto, Portugal (Sept. 9–13): F. Rossi

• ICTAI 2007: Patras, Greece (October 28-31): F. Masseglia, B. Trousse (reviewer) ( http://ictai07.ceid.upatras.gr/ )

• ICDM 2007: Omaha, NE, USA (Oct. 28-31): F. Masseglia

• PIKM 2007: Lisbon, Portugal (Nov. 5-10): F. Masseglia

• OTM COOPIS 2007: Vilamoura, Portugal (Nov. 28-30, 2007): B. Trousse

  ( http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/2007/index.html?page=coopis2007cfp )

• SYNASC 2007: Timisoara, Romania (Sept. 26-29, 2006): B. Trousse ( http://synasc07.info.uvt.ro/ )

• ADCS 2007: Melbourne, Australia (Dec. 10): A-M.Vercoustre

Organization of Conferences or Workshops

We are involved in other organization tasks:

• Co-organisation of the Fourth workshop FDC at EGC07: F. Masseglia ( http://www-sop.inria.fr/axis/fdc-egc07/ )

• INEX: co-organisation of the track on XML mining  [Oops!] : A-M. Vercoustre.

• INEX: co-organisation of the new track on Entity Ranking (2007): A-M. Vercoustre. ( http://inex.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/2007/xmlSearch.html/ )

• INEX: participation in the definition of the official measures of retrieval effectiveness planned to be employed for the ad hoc track of INEX 2007  [Oops!] : Jovan Pehcevski.

• Organisation of our annual AxIS workshop at Inria Rocquencourt (July 2-4): S. Aubin, S. Honnorat, Y. Lechevallier and B. Trousse. Furthermore, monthly team meetings were organised by videoconference between AxIS Sophia Antipolis and AxIS Rocquencourt.

• Organisation of a regular internal seminar by J. Pehcevski at AxIS Rocquencourt.

AxIS Web Server

AxIS maintains an external and an internal Web site allowing the access to lots of information, including software developed in the team, our publications, relevant events (conferences, workshops) and information related to the conferences and seminar we organise. URL: http://www-sop.inria.fr/axis/ .

AxIS uses its own publication management tool called “BibAdmin” developed by S. Chelcea (cf. section  5.9 ) available on Inria's Gforge server http://gforge.inria.fr/projects/bibadmin/ .

Activities of General Interest

• Y. Lechevallier is the president of the “InfosStat, Logiciels et Data Mining” Group of the SFDS society http://www.sfds.asso.fr/groupes/logiciel.htm . Three InfoStat seminars were organized in January, March and October.

• T. Despeyroux is involved (30 %) as president of AGOS (Inria Works Council), a permanent member of the “Commission technique paritaire (CTP)” and a member of the Inria Board of Directors (Conseil d'Administration) as a scientific staff representative.

• B. Senach is involved (10 %) in the support committee (Inria Sophia Antipolis) of the world-wide competitivity pole “Solutions Communicantes Sécurisées”. During this year he has been involved in four Inria workings groups for Sophia Antipolis: 1) the "Comorale" workgroup (Inria Sophia Antipolis) which is in charge of an internal survey to identify users' needs in information exchange cooperation and to drive the choice of future communications tools, 2) the “Circulation de l'information” workgroup (Inria Sophia Antipolis) which has to analyse the information flow inside Inria Sophia Antipolis Unit and to improve information dissemination, 3) an internal “think tank” working group (CUMIR) which has to envision the futur user's need within INRIA to plan the requiered evolution of technicological ressources and 4) the “Refonte du site Web Inria Sophia” workgroup which has to give specifications for the redesign of the Research Center Web Site.

• A-M. Vercoustre is involved (25%) in the Department for Scientific Information and Communication (DISC), working on Inria policy and tools for scientific publications, in particular the development of the Open Archive HAL, in cooperation with CNRS. She is a member of the COST (Comité scientifique et technique du Comité stratégique) for the extension of HAL to become the French National Open Archive. As part of her DISC involvement, A-M. Vercoustre is also leading the Ralyx project for exploiting the INRIA Activity Report  (cf. section  5.8 ).