Section: New Results

Highlights of the Year

• Olivier Beaumont and Lionel Eyraud-Dubois have received the HiPC best paper award for their work on resource allocation for large scale virtualized platforms with reliability guarantees. They provided a formulation based on a thorough analysis of a real life usage trace, and a very efficient two-step allocation algorithm.

• The team organized the annual conference of the French Operations Research Society ROADEF14 in Feb 2014.

• An Inria Innovation Lab has been created between Realopt and Ertus Consulting.

• The SAMBA associated team project with Brazil was renewed for 3 years including new collaborators from Chili.

• François Vanderbeck was invited as a plenary speaker at the conference OPTIMIZATION 2014, in Portugal [19] .