Section: Other Grants and Activities

Animation of the Scientific Community

Introduction

AxIS members are involved in the animation of the scientific community:

• Reviewing Activites (cf. 8.5.2 )

• Organization of Conferences Workshops (cf. 8.5.3

• University teaching (cf. 8.5.4 )

• Ph.D. Thesis (cf. 8.5.5 )

• Activities of General Interest (cf. 8.5.7 ).

Reviewing Activities

AxIS is involved in the management and the edition of 4 journals:

• the RSTI scientific committee related to the “ISI, L'OBJET, RIA, TSI” journals (Hermes publisher): B. Trousse is a member of this committee.

• The MODULAD electronic journal: Y. Lechevallier is one of the four editors.

• BIT (Behaviour & Information Technology). D. L. Scapin (Associate Editor:).

• Romanian Journal of Human-Computer Interaction:: D. L. Scapin (member of the International Advisory Board)

AxIS members belong to 8 editorial boards of international journals and two special issues of a national journal (RNTI, RIA):

• the Co-Design Journal (Editor: Janet McDonnel University of the Arts London - Publisher: Swets & Zeitlinger): B. Trousse

• IJDST - International Journal of Design Sciences & Technology (Editors R. besheshti & K. Zreik - Publisher: Europia productions): B. Trousse

• JSDA (the Journal of Symbolic Data Analysis) (Editor:E. Diday, electronic journal: Y. Lechevallier

• UAIS (International Journal of Universal Access in the Information Society). D. L. Scapin.

• IJHCS (International Journal of Human-Computer Studies): D. L. Scapin.

• IWC (Interacting with Computers): D. L. Scapin.

• IJPOP (International Journal of People-Oriented Programming): D. L. Sc apin

• JIPS (Journal d'Interaction Personne-Système). D. L. Scapin.

• RNTI special issue on mining complex data: F. Masseglia

• RIA Special Issue Intelligence Artificielle et Web Intelligence (Publisher, Hermes-Lavoisier) Vol. 23 N°1, January-Fébruary, editors-in-chief: Y. Demazeau and L.Vercouter: B. Trousse

AxIS members were reviewers for 3 journals:

• DKE International Journal on Data Knowledge and Engineering (Elsevier): F. Masseglia

• INS International Journal on Information Sciences (Elsevier): F. Masseglia

• Third special issue of RNTI on complex data mining (numéro spécial RNTI sur la fouille de données complexes): F. Masseglia, B. Trousse.

Several AxIS members were involved in 9 international conferences/worhshops as members of Program Committee:

• ECAI'10, 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence: B. Trousse

• CSCWD'10, 14th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (Santiago, Chile, April 22-24, 2009): B. Trousse

• ICCBR'10, 8th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, held in Seattle, Washington, USA from 20 July to 23 July 2009: B. Trousse

• COMPSTAT 2010 [53] , the 19th Conference of IASC-ERS COmputational Statistics, CNAM, Paris, August 23-27: Y. Lechevallier , B. Trousse

• HCSE 2010, 3rd Conference on Human-Centred Software Engineering; October 14-15, 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland: D. L. Scapin.

• AHFE 2010, 3rd International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, July 19-22, 2010, Miami, FL, USA: D. L. Scapin.

• IEEE ICDM: the 10^th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Sydney, Australia, December 14-17: F. Masseglia.

• ICML 20010, the 27th International Conference on Machine Learning, Haifa, Israel, June 21-24: F. Masseglia.

• ACM SAC 2010, the 25th Symposium On Applied Computing, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 22-26: F. Masseglia.

AxIS members were also involved in national conferences/worhshops as members of Program Committee.

• IC'10: 21emes journées francophones d'Ingénierie des Connaissances modèles, représentations, raisonnements, gestion et usages des connaissances, Nimes, http://ic2009.inria.fr/ : B. Trousse

• EGC'10: 10èmes Journées Francophones Extraction et Gestion des Connaissances (Hammamet, Tunisie, janvier): Y. Lechevallier, F. Masseglia, B. Trousse

• Atelier EGC'10: (Hammamet, Tunisie, 26 January 2010)- La recherche d'information personnalisée sur le web: M-A. Aufaure, Y. Lechevallier, B. Trousse

• EGC-M 10: 1ère édition de la co,férence Maghrébine sur l'Extraction et la Gestion des Connaissances (Alger, Algérie, december 13-14): Y. Lechevallier, F. Masseglia, B. Trousse

• BDA 2010 demonstrations: F. Masseglia

• IHM 2010: 22ème. Conference Francophone sur l Interaction Homme-Machine; Septembre 20-23, Luxembourg: D. L. Scapin.

• ErgoIA 13-15 October 2010: D. L. Scapin.

• Ateliers EGC'10

  • Fouille de Données Complexes: complexité liée aux données multiples: Y. Lechevallier, F. Masseglia, B. Trousse

  • La recherche d'information personnalisée sur le web: Y. Lechevallier (co-organisation)

Other Reviewing Activities: B. Trousse is expert for the cluster ISLE (Rhônes Alpes region) related to the project “Web intelligence. F. Masseglia was expert for the BLANC call for project and for the RTRA DIGITEO.

Organization of Conferences / Workshops

AxIS was involved in two major events:

1. COMPSTAT 2010 (more thant 600 participants): Y. Lechevallier was vice-chair of the organizing committee of the 19th COMPSTAT symposium, COMPSTAT 2010 (August 22nd-27th 2010), which is the conference on the Statistical Computing and sponsored by the European Regional Section of the IASC (International Association for Statistical Computing). IASC is a section of ISI (International Statistical Institute). COMPSTAT2010 [53] is locally organized by the CNAM and the INRIA (AxIS). T. Despeyroux was member of this organizing committee.

2. LLSS2010, First Living Labs Summer School (around 80 participants from 23 countries)²): B. Trousse with K. Pawart and R. Santoro was at the initiative of the idea of organising the first edition of a Living Labs Summer School In France. B. Trousse was co-chair of the scientific committee and chair of the organisation committee of the summer school. The first Living lab Summer School took place at the Cité des Sciences (Paris, august) with the great support of universcience and LUTIN User Lab: http://www-sop.inria.fr/llss2010/

University Teaching

AxIS is an ”associated team” for the STIC Doctoral school at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (UNS) and AxIS team members are teaching in various universities (UNS, Univ Paris IX-Dauphine, CNAM, ENSAE):

• Master 2 Recherche Systèmes Intelligents (resp: S. Pinson) of the University Paris IX-Dauphine: Tutorial (12h) on “Du data mining au knowledge mining”: Y. Lechevallier.

• Master 2 Pro Mathématiques appliqués et sciences économiques (resp: P. Cazes) of the University Paris IX-Dauphine: Tutorial (15h) on “Méthodes de classification”: Y. Lechevallier.

• Master 2 Pro Ingénierie de la Statistique (resp: G. Saporta) of CNAM (12h) on Méthodes neuronales: Y. Lechevallier.

• ENSAE (Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique): Tutorial (18h) on Data Mining: Y. Lechevallier.

• ENSG ( Ecole Nationale des Sciences Géographiques): Tutorial (12h) on “Analyse des données”: Y. Lechevallier.

• “Master CSSR” (resp. Bruno Martin) at Polytech'Sophia: Lecture (3h) on Data Mining: Sequences, Streams and Security: F. Masseglia.

B. Trousse made AxIS presentation at Inria during student visits from ENS Lyon, (around 15 students, November 10) and from ENS Cachan (around 23 students), December 10.

Ph.D. Thesis

One Ph.D. defense this year:

• M. Charrad (start: end of 2005) [17] , “Une approche générique pour l'analyse croisant contenu et usages des sites Web par des méthodes de bipartitionnement”, CNAM and University La Manouba (Tunisia). Y. Lechevallier is co-superviser with G. Saporta (CNAM) and in co-tutelle with Prof M. Benhamed (ENSI, Tunisia).

Two PhD in progress at Inria :

1. E. Smirnova (start: September 2008), “Mining social networks”, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis & INRIA, (co-directors: M. Rueher, B. Trousse). Let us note that E. Smirnova made an internship at Google (Paris) may-august.

2. C. Zhang (start: october 2008), “Mining data streams: clustering and pattern extraction”, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis & INRIA, (director: F. Masseglia).

In the context of the WRUM project, B. Trousse and B. Senach participate in the thesis committees of three Ph-D students (Morocco):

• M. Naamany from the University of Casablanca supervised by A. Marzark.

• N. Sael from the University of Casablanca supervised by A. Marzark.

• E Zemmouri from the University of Fes and ENSAM (Meknès, Morocco) supervised by H. Behja and A. Marzark.

AxIS researchers were members of Ph.D. committees in 2010:

• T. Qureshi, Ph.D,  Contributions to Decision Tree based Learning, June, University Lumière Lyon II: Y. Lechevallier

• G. Cabanes, Ph.D,  Classification non supervisée à deux niveaux guidée par le voisinage et la densité, December, University Paris 13: Y. Lechevallier (reviewer)

• P. Salle, Ph.D, “Les motifs séquentiels pour les données issues des puces ADN” University of Montpellier 2, July: F. Masseglia (reviewer).

• G. Bonnin, Ph.D, “Vers des systèmes de recommandation robustes pour la navigation Web: inspiration de la modélisation statistique du langage” University of Nancy 2, November: F. Masseglia (reviewer).

Internships

We welcomed two students this year:

• A. Louati [57] , (supervised by Y. Lechevallier), AxIS Rocquencourt, Master of ENSI and Manouba university (Tunis) (February-June) on community detection in social networks.

• M. Yared [68] . (supervisors F. Masseglia and B. Trousse), AxIS Sophia Antipolis, Master 2, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, (from July to September) on mining data streams.

E. Smirnova attended the Machine Learning Summer school (Canberra, Australia, September 27 - October 6) http://mlss10.rsise.anu.edu.au/

Activities of General Interest

• Y. Lechevallier made an invited talk [24] at AAFD'2010 (Apprentissage Artificiel et fouille de données, Université Paris 13, june 29-30th).

• B. Trousse was invited this year to be a member of the “comité de pilotage” of the EGC association.

• AGOS: T. Despeyroux is involved (30 %) as President of AGOS (Inria Works Council).

• F. Masseglia is member of the editorial board of interstices (http://interstices.info ). F. Masseglia is author of two documents for interstices:(on Google and on principles and challenges of data mining and usage analysis).

• French national “Science Celebration” (“Fête de la science”):

  • B. Senach and B. dTtrousse prepared a first version of the web site and a flyer which was distributed at CSTB, on Sophia Village (Inria stand) and at UNS Valrose Nice (Mymed stand).

  • F. Masseglia gave two sessions of one hour to students of Audiberti High School of Antibes on research work in Compuetr Science and in Data Mining.

• B. Trousse as Inria representative belonged to the expert committee of the Pacalabs and to the strategic committee of the Pacalabs orientation of the Regional Council.

• B. Trousse and B. Senach are members of the coordination committee of the ICT usage Lab (Inira, CSTB, orange Labs and Unsa).

• B. Trousse as representative of an effectiv emember, ICT Usage Lab was elected as a member of the administration committee of the EnOLL association..

• IEEE: B. Trousse is member of the technical committee on Computer Supported Work in Design in the context of the IEEE SMCS (Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society)