Section: Other Grants and Activities
International collaborations
Cooperation within Europe
Dahu is involved into two major grants funded by EU:
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FoX is a FET-Open project funded within the FP7 framework. The objective of FoX is to study the fundamental issues necessary in order to make the data management over the internet more efficient and more reliable. The partners of Dahu in FoX are Thomas Schwentick at the university of Dortmund, Mikołaj Bojańczyk at the university of Warsaw, Leonid Libkin at the university of Edinburgh, Georg Gottlob at the university of Oxford, Frank Neven at the university of Hasselt and Maarten Marx at the university of Amsterdam. The project start on May 1st and will last three year. Luc Segoufin is the coordinator of this project.
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Webdam is an ERC “Advanced investigators grants” obtained by Serge Abiteboul. It started in December 2008. The goal is to develop a formal model for Web data management. This model will open new horizons for the development of the Web in a well-principled way, enhancing its functionality, performance, and reliability. Specifically, the goal is to develop a universally accepted formal framework for describing complex and flexible interactingWeb applications featuring notably data exchange, sharing, integration, querying and updating. We also propose to develop formal foundations that will enable peers to concurrently reason about global data management activities, cooperate in solving specific tasks and support services with desired quality of service.
The Webdam project is shared between the Dahu and Gemo project-teams, both from INRIA Saclay.
Cooperation with Tunisia
Dahu is coordinator (on the French side) of a project INRIA-DGRSRT (Tunisian universities) on “automated verification of the conformance of firewall configurations to access-control policies”, since January 2008. The other partners of the project are the CASSIS team at INRIA Nancy-Grand-Est and the security team at Sup'Com Tunis. This year, DAHU has hosted in July and August the internship of Nihel Ben Youssef (PhD in Supcom Tunis). This internship has resulted in an implementation and the publication of [24] .
Cooperation with North America
Close links also exist with UC San Diego and the database group of Victor Vianu.
