Section: Other Grants and Activities

International and national cooperations

The SMIS members have developed tight international cooperations with the following persons/teams:

• Dennis Shasha (Professor at the University of New-York, USA): collaboration on tamper-resistant data management issues (see details in Section  6.4 ). Dennis Shasha has done a one year sabbatical stay in SMIS (July 2006 to June 2007).

• Xiaofeng Meng (Professor at Renmin University, Beijing, China): collaboration on embedded data management issues (see details in Section   6.2 ). This work is partly funded by a Franco-Chinese research program (PRA SI-05604).

• P.M.G. Apers (Professor at the University of Twente, The Netherlands): collaboration on data confidentiality issues (see details in Section   6.3 ). H.J.W. van Heerde, member of P. Apers team, is doing a PhD co-supervised by P. Apers and N. Anciaux.

• P. Bonnet (Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark): collaboration on Flash-based data management for high-end servers (see details in Section   6.2 ). Luc Bouganim did a 5 months stay in this team in 2008.

• I. Ray and I.Ray (Professors at Colorado State University, USA): collaboration on data privacy and usage control (Indrajit and Indrakshi Ray are visiting SMIS for 6 months starting September 1st).