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Major publications by the team in recent years

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P. Besnard, M.-O. Cordier, Y. Moinard.
Ontology-based inference for causal explanation, in: Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 2008, vol. 15, n^o 4, p. 351-367.

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G. Carrault, Marie-Odile. Cordier, R. Quiniou, F. Wang.
Temporal abstraction and Inductive Logic Programming for arrhyhtmia recognition from electrocardiograms, in: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2003, vol. 28, p. 231-263.

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M.-O. Cordier, F. Garcia, C. Gascuel-Odoux, V. Masson, J. Salmon-Monviola, F. Tortrat, R. Trépos.
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Y. Pencolé, M.-O. Cordier.
A formal framework for the decentralised diagnosis of large scale discrete event systems and its application to telecommunication networks, in: Artificial Intelligence Journal, 2005, vol. 164, n^o 1-2, p. 121-170.

Publications of the year

Articles in International Peer-Reviewed Journal

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P. Aurousseau, H. Squividant, R. Trépos, F. Tortrat, C. Gascuel-Odoux, M.-O. Cordier.
A plot drainage network as a conceptual tool for the spatialisation of surface flow pathways for agricultural catchments, in: Computer and Geosciences, 2009, vol. 35, p. 276-288
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E. Fromont, R. Quiniou, M.-O. Cordier.
Learning Rules from Multisource Data for Cardiac Monitoring, in: International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (IJBET), 2009, vol. 2, n^o 3, to appear.

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C. Gascuel-Odoux, P. Aurousseau, M.-O. Cordier, P. Durand, F. Garcia, V. Masson, J. Salmon-Monviola, F. Tortrat, R. Trépos.
A decision-oriented model to evaluate the effect of land use and agricultural management on herbicide contamination in stream water, in: Environmental Modelling and Software, 2010, p. 1-14, to appear.

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Y. Yan, P. Dague, Y. Pencolé, M.-O. Cordier.
A Model-based Approach for Diagnosing Faults in Web Service Processes, in: International Journal of Web Services Research (IJWSR), 2009, vol. 6, n^o 1, p. 87–110.

International Peer-Reviewed Conference/Proceedings

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M.-O. Cordier, X. Le Guillou, S. Robin, L. Rozé.
Monitoring WS-CDL-based choreographies of Web Services, in: DX'09 (20th International Worshop On Principles of Diagnosis), Stockholm, Sweden, june 2009.

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C. Largouet, M.-O. Cordier, G. Fontenelle.
Scenario templates to analyse qualitative ecosystem models, in: 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 (International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation), R.S. Anderssen, R.D. Braddock, L.T.H. Newham (editors), 2009, p. 2129-2135
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W. Wang, T. Guyet, S. Knapskog.
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W. Wang, F. Masseglia, T. Guyet, R. Quiniou, M.-O. Cordier.
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National Peer-Reviewed Conference/Proceedings

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T. Guyet, R. Quiniou, M.-O. Cordier, W. Wang.
Diagnostic multi-sources adaptatif Application à la détection d'intrusion dans des serveurs Web, in: EGC 2009, january 2009.

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C. Largouet, M.-O. Cordier.
Patrons de scénarios pour l'exploration qualitative d'un écosystème, in: RFIA 2010 (Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle), 2010
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X. Le Guillou, M.-O. Cordier, S. Robin, L. Rozé.
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W. Wang, T. Guyet, R. Quiniou, M.-O. Cordier, F. Masseglia, B. Trousse.
Online and Adaptive anomaly Detection: detecting intrusions in unlabelled audit data streams, in: EGC 2009, 2009.

Workshops without Proceedings

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M.-O. Cordier, T. Guyet, C. Largouet, V. Masson, H.-M. Suchier.
Apprentissage incrémental de règles de décision à partir de données d'un simulateur, in: Atelier INFORSID : Systèmes d'Information et de Décision pour l'Environnement, 2009
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M.-O. Cordier, Y. Moinard.
Remarks about the use of Answer Set Programming for a causal formalism, in: MICRAC project Workshop (Toulouse), jun 2009
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T. Guyet, R. Quiniou, M.-O. Cordier.
LogAnalyzer : monitoring adaptatif d'un flux de données, in: RFIA 2010 (Congrès Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle), 2010, Demonstration, to appear.

Scientific Books (or Scientific Book chapters)

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M.-O. Cordier, M. Falchier, F. Garcia, C. Gascuel-Odoux, D. Heddadj, L. Lebouille, V. Masson, J. Salmon-Monviola, F. Tortrat, R. Trépos.
Chapitre 9 : Modélisation d'un transfert d'herbicides dans un bassin versant dans le cadre d'un outil d'aide à la décision pour la maîtrise de la qualité des eaux, in: Construire la décision : démarches en agriculture, agro-alimentaire et espace rural, Quae, 2009, p. 41-55.

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R. Quiniou, L. Callens, G. Carrault, M.-O. Cordier, E. Fromont, P. Mabo, F. Portet.
Intelligent adaptive monitoring for cardiac surveillance, in: Computational Intelligence in Healthcare, L. C. Jain (editor), LNAI, Springer Verlag, 2009, to appear.

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The WS-Diamond Team.
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Internal Reports

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Self-adaptive web intrusion detection system, INRIA, 2009, n^o 6989
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