Section: Other Grants and Activities

International Bilateral Collaborations

Europe

Sardes maintains collaboration with several research groups in Europe:

• École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne: Distributed Programming Laboratory (Prof. Rachid Guerraoui). Distributed algorithms. Contact persons in Sardes : V. Quéma.

• Università di Roma, La Sapienza, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica (Prof. Roberto Baldoni). Collaboration on distributed algorithms for large scale systems (post-doctoral stay of Vivien Quéma, 2005-2006). Contact person in Sardes : V. Quéma.

• Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium): Department of Computing Science and Engineering (Prof. Peter Van Roy). Collaboration on component-based distributed programming, autonomic systems. Contact person in Sardes : J.B. Stefani.

• Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS, Stockholm): Computer System Laboratory (Prof. Seif Haridi). Collaboration on large scale distributed systems management, component-based distributed programming. Contact persons in Sardes : J.B. Stefani, N. De Palma.

• Università di Bologna (Italy): Department of Computer Science (Prof. Davide Sangiorgi). Collaboration on distributed process calculi, type systems for components. This collaboration has been supported in 2009 by the Bacon “Equipe associée”. Contact persons in Sardes : D. Pous, A. Schmitt, J.B. Stefani.

U.S.A.

Collaboration is under way with the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Prof. Benjamin C. Pierce), on the Harmony universal synchronizer and bi-directional languages: distributed algorithms, programming language design, type systems (visits, shared software and joint publications). Contact person in Sardes : A. Schmitt.