Section: Overall Objectives
Highlights of the Year
The first highlight of the year is the bi-localization of the Atlas project-team between INRIA Rennes Bretagne - Atlantique, Nantes and INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerrannée, Montpellier, where Patrick Valduriez and Esther Pacitti are now located. This year has been very productive in terms of industrial and international collaborations and research results with:
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the organization of VLDB2009 by P. Valduriez (general chair) in Lyon which had a record participation of 750 people, from 44 different countries.
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a new PREDIT project EPILOG on P2P data management for supply chain management in retail industry (with Euxenis SAS and RISC Solutions d'Assurances) for 18 months, starting in 2009;
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a new équipe associée (EA) SARAVÁ with UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, to work on P2P data management for online comunities;
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a PICASSO research project, to start in 2010, Scaling GraphDB, with UPC, Barcelona, to work on very large graph database support;
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a very good publication record, including 3 papers published in top database journals (VLDBJ, DAPD);
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the paper [36] in the context of the SARAVÁ équipe associée was selected as best paper at the Colloquium of Computation Brazil / INRIA (COLIBRI 2009);
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1 Habilitation (HDR) and 4 Ph.D. theses defended.
