Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Research Visitors

Visits of International Scientists

• Mats Carlsson (SICS , Sweden), Automata constraints (5 days).

• Philippe Codognet (Japanese-French Laboratory for Informatics at the University of Tokyo , Japan), Prediction models of local search speed-up (15 Ždays).

• Pierre Flener , (Uppsala University , Sweden), Automata constraints (5 days).

• Justin Pearson , (Uppsala University , Sweden), Automata constraints (5 days).

• Helmut Simonis , (Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University College Cork , Ireland), Learning constraint models (3 months).

Visits to International Teams

Sabbatical programme

Thierry Petit is currently visiting the Foisie School of business of WPI (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, USA ), collaborating with Andrew C. Trapp on optimization problems, since July, 2014.

Research stays abroad

• Nicolas Beldiceanu , 4C Cork Ireland: work on learning generic models and work on learning constraints in the context of EDF with Helmut Simonis  (two weeks).

• Nicolas Beldiceanu , Uppsala University and SICS : work on automata and constraints with Pierre Flener and Justin Pearson and Mats Carlsson  (one month).

• Éric Monfroy , Univ. Austral de Chile, Valparaiso, Chile: work with Ricardo Soto.

• Florian Richoux visited the Japanese-French Laboratory for Informatics at the University of Tokyo , to work with Philippe Codognet on massively parallel combinatorial optimization algorithms and to start collaborations on Game AI, with Ruck Thawonmas from Ritsumeikan University (from the 1st of April till the 31st of August).