Section: Dissemination

Animation of the Community

Animation

International

Aspect-oriented Software Association (AOSA): Mario Südholt has been elected the chair of this international organization (headquarted in California) in Apr. 2011.

COST Action: Jean-Marc Menaud is a management committee member of the European COST Action IC0804: Energy efficiency in large scale distributed systems from 2009 to 2013.

DSAL: Jacques Noyé has co-organized the 6th international workshop on “Domain-Specific Aspect Languages” (DSAL 2011) co-located with AOSD 2011 in Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco, Brazil.

VTDC: Adrien Lèbre has been the general chair of the 5th international workshop on “Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing” (VTDC 2011) co-located with HPDC 2011 in San José, CA, United-States.

Cloud computing summer school: Adrien Lèbre gave a lecture at the European summer school organized by EIT-ICT lab and the CONTRAIL project in the “Presqu'ile de Giens” Hyères-les-Palmiers, France (Jun. 27 - Jul. 1, 2011). http://contrail-project.eu/summerschool-2011 .

OW2: Jean-Marc Menaud has been a member of the OW2 board committee since 2010.

France

CNRS GDR GPL: Pierre Cointe is a member of the scientific committee of the GDR GPL (Génie de la Programmation et du Logiciel).

CNRS GDR ASR: Jean-Marc Menaud is a member of the scientific committee of the CNRS GDR ASR (Architectures, Systèmes, Réseaux) and in charge of the System action.

ACM/SIGOPS: Jean-Marc Menaud was the vice-chair of the French ACM/SIGOPS Chapter (ASF) from Mar. 2008 to Mar. 2011.

COMIN Labs laboratory of Excellence: Jean-Marc Menaud has been the co-coordinator of the focus on Energy and resource efficiency in ICT since Jun. 2011. Mario Südholt has been co-coordinating the Security focus of COMIN Labs.

Energy Issues in Distributed Systems: Jean-Marc Menaud organized the workshop Journée Thèmes Emergents (JTE) on Energy Issues in Distributed Systems in Paris (May 30 to Jun. 1, 2011).

France Grille: Adrien Lèbre gave a lecture at the Cloud Computing days organized by France Grille in Lyon, France, Oct. 21, 2011.

SPL: Jean-Claude Royer participated in the organization of the workshop Journée lignes de produits logiciels, Paris, Oct. 21, 2011. http://www.jldp.org/ .

PdL Region

Quartier de la création de Nantes: Pierre Cointe organized with Bertrand Stiegler (Ars Industrialis) a workshop on Web Sciences and Software Studies (May 27, 2011).

Regional Doctoral School STIM: Thomas Ledoux co-organized JDOC, an event promoting contact between PhD students of the Doctoral School (Apr. 14, 2011), and the Welcome Day event for all the new PhD students (Nov. 3, 2011).

Steering, Journal, Conference Committees

P. Cointe is a member of AITO and the ECOOP steering committee. He was a member of the NOTERE 2011 program committee.

A. Lèbre was a member of the program committee of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom 2011), the IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC 2011), the 20th EUROMICRO Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based and Processing (special session on Cloud Computing), the 5th Workshop on System-level Virtualization for High Performance Computing (HPCVirt 2011, co-located with the EUROPAR conference), and the 4th IEEE Worshop on Real-Time Service Oriented Architecture and Applications (RTSOAA 2011, co-located with SOCA 2011).

T. Ledoux was a member of program committees for the following conferences: 2nd International Workshop on Green Computing Middleware (GCM'11), 10th International Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM'11), 1st Workshop on Middleware and Architectures for Autonomic and Sustainable Computing (MAASC'11), International Conference on Green Computing ICGREEN 2011, International Conference on ICT as Key Technology against Global Warming (ICT- GLOW'11). He was also a member of the program committee for the book “Achieving Federated and Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures: Theory and Practice” (IGI Global, 2012).

J.-M. Menaud is a member of the (RenPar/CFSE/Sympa) steering committees. He has served on the program committee of the IEEE/ACM Inter. Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom2011), the first International Workshop on Autonomic Systems enabling Green Computing (ASGC 2011) as part of The Tenth International Conference on Networks (ICN 2011), the first International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies (ENERGY 2011), the first International Conference on ICT as Key Technology for the Fight against Global Warming (IT-GloW '11), the 6th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cluster and Grid Computing (VHPC '11) as part of Euro-Par 2011 and the 5th Workshop on System-level Virtualization for High Performance Computing (HPCVirt 2011) as part of EuroSys 2011.

J-C. Royer is a member of the editorial board of the journal TSI. He was a member of the program committee of CAL 2011, CNSI 2011 and SSNE 2011.

M. Südholt is a member of the steering committees of the international conferences AOSD and Software composition. He is also a member of the editorial board of the international journal “Transactions of AOSD”, which is published by Springer Verlag.

N. Tabareau was a member of the program committee of the workshop LOLA (Syntax and Semantics of Low-Level Languages) 2011, satellite of LICS 2011.

Thesis Committees

P. Cointe was a reviewer of Julien Mercadel's PhD (University of Bordeaux, Oct. 10).

T. Ledoux has taken part in two PhD evaluation committees: Roméo Said (UBS, 23 Feb.), Loris Bouzonnet (LIG-IMAG, 16 Sep.)

A. Lèbre was member of two PhD committees: Jérôme Gallard (Rennes, 6 May) and Alexandra CARPEN AMARIE (Rennes, 15 Dec.).

J.-M. Menaud was reviewer of one PhD: Alain-B. TCHANA (Oct. 29, 2011) in Toulouse.

J-C. Royer was reviewer of three PhDs: Mario Sanchez Puccini in Bogota, Anthony Hock-Koon in Nantes, Carlos Parra in Lille and member of Angel Núñez's PhD committee.

M. Südholt has served as a reporting jury member for the PhD of Slim Kallel (TU Darmstadt, Germany, and ENIS, Sfax, Tunisia) in May 2011.

Evaluation Committees and Expertise

P. Cointe was a member of the AERES visiting committee for MIPS (Mulhouse, Nov. 15-16, 2011). He served in four selection/hiring committees (EMN, Polytech'Nantes and University of Nantes) for associate and full professor positions.

J.-M. Menaud acted as an expert for the ANR International White Program 2011 call.

J-C. Royer acted as an expert for the ANR blanc SIMI 2 2011 call.

M. Südholt has served as an expert to the Cofecub French-Brazilian exchange program.

N. Tabareau was a member of the selecting committee for the position of assistant professor (MC298) at École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Cachan, Ker Lann and assistant professor (MC04867) at Laboratoire Informatique de Nantes Atlantique (LINA).