Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Research Visitors

Visits of International Scientists

Ruiming Tang (National University of Singapore) gave a seminar on “Quality and Price of Data” in January.

Xiao Bai (Yahoo Labs Barcelona) gave a seminar on “Improving the Efficiency of Multi-site Web Search Engines” in January.

Philippe Bonnet (IT University of Copenhagen) gave a seminar on CLyDE Mid-Flight: What we have learnt so far about the SSD-Based IO Stack in May.

Antoine Chambille and Romain Colle (QuartetFS, Paris) gave a seminar on “In-Memory Analytics: Accelerating Business Performance” in June.

Divy Agrawal and Amr El Abbadi (UCSB, USA) gave keynote talks on “Emerging Technologies for Big Data Management and Analytics” and “Consistent, Elastic and Fault-Tolerant Management of Big Data in the Cloud”, respectively, in the Mastodons International Workshop on “Big Data Management and Crowd Sourcing towards Scientific Data” in Montpellier in June.

Bettina Kemme (McGill Univ., Canada) gave a seminar on “Multiplayer Games: a complex application in need for scalable replica management” in december.

Sihem Amer-Yahia (LIG) gave a seminar on “Task Assignment Optimization in Crowdsourci” in December.

Visits to International Teams

Patrick Valduriez visited the Inria-Chile center in Santiago in october, where he gave several talks.

Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek visited UCSB in november-december, in the context of the Bigdatanet associated team.