Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights

• Simon Régnier PhD prize: Alzennyr Gomes Da Silva was the laureate of the Simon Régnier PhD thesis Prize [80] during the 27th conference of SFC(SFC:Francophon Society of Clustering) at Saint Denis (La Réunion). This prize was for her thesis defended on september 2009 and supervised by Y. Lechevallier (Inria) and Edwin Diday (University Paris IX dauphine). Title: Evolutive Data Analysis - application to Web Usage Data.

• Finalist at Galileo GNSS Living Lab Prize: B. Trousse and B. Senach (Inria) with G. Gallais and D. Emsellem from Vulog were one of the ten finalists of the european GNSS Living Lab Prize among 57 submissions.

• COMPSTAT 2010: Y. Lechevallier was vice-chair of the local organizing committee of the 19th International Conference on Computational Statistics (COMPSTAT) [53] in August 23-27 (CNAM, Paris) with more than 600 participants from 24 countries. Site: http://www.compstat2010.fr/

• LLSS 2010: B. Trousse with K. Pawar (University of Nottingham) and R. Santoro (EsoceNet) was at the initiative of the First Living Lab Summer School School which was co-organised at the Cité des Sciences (Paris) by the two french living labs (ICT Usage Lab, Lutin Usage Lab), EsoceNet, universcience and Unbla. It was a great success with around 80 participants from 23 countries. B. Trousse was vice-chair of the scientific committee and chair of the local organizing committee.

• New grants on Topic 3: Topic 3 has been developed thanks to six new grants where usage analysis and users'involvement are key issues: 1 PREDIT (TIC TAC), 2 PACALabs (Ecoffices, Hotel-Ref-Paca), 2 european contracts (Elliot, Fireball) and 1 ANR (PIM).

• 1 new contract with Industry (CRE Orange Labs and new collaborations with numerous SMes are starting this year (Perferencement, Osmose, Wozaik, Cassette Voyage, VUlog etc.).