Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Participation in the editorial board of scientific journals:

• VLDB Journal: P. Valduriez.

• Journal of Transactions on Large Scale Data and Knowledge Centered Systems, R. Akbarinia.

• Distributed and Parallel Databases, Kluwer Academic Publishers: E. Pacitti, P. Valduriez.

• Internet and Databases: Web Information Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers: P. Valduriez.

• Journal of Information and Data Management, Brazilian Computer Society Special Interest Group on Databases: P. Valduriez.

• Book series “Data Centric Systems and Applications” (Springer): P. Valduriez.

• Ingénierie des Systèmes d'Information, Hermès : P. Valduriez.

• Journal of Data Semantics (Springer): S. Cohen-Boulakia

Participation to the organization of conferences and workshops:

• Florent Masseglia was vice-chair of the international conference on data mining (ICDM 2014).

• Alexis Joly was chair of the LifeCLEF 2014 workshop (within CLEF 2014 conference) and co-organized the international workshop on Environmental Multimedia Retrieval (EMR 2014).

• Esther Pacitti organized the Mastodons International Workshop on “Big Data Management and Crowd Sourcing towards Scientific Data” in Montpellier in June.

• Patrick Valduriez co-organized (with Prof. Masaru Kitsuregawa, general director of NII, Japan) a workshop on big data sponsored by the French Embassy in Tokyo in November.

Participation in conference program committees :

• ACM SIGMOD Conf. 2014: R. Akbarinia, P. Valduriez (area chair), 2015: S. Cohen-Boulakia

• ADBIS East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems: P. Valduriez (PC chair)

• VLDB 2015 : P. Valduriez (sponsor co-chair)

• ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC, Data Stream track), 2014: F. Masseglia

• Conférence Internationale Francophone sur l'Extraction et la Gestion de Connaissance (EGC), 2014: F. Masseglia

• IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Mining (ICDM), 2014: F. Masseglia (area chair)

• IEEE Ph.D. forum at ICDM, 2014: F. Masseglia

• Int. Conf. on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), 2014: F. Masseglia

• Int. Conf. on Data Management Technologies and Applications (DATA), 2014: F. Masseglia

• Int. Conf. on Extending DataBase Technologies (EDBT), 2014: R. Akbarinia, A. Joly, F. Masseglia; 2015: E. Pacitti

• IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2014: P. Valduriez, 2015: S. Cohen-Boulakia

• Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS) 2014: S. Cohen-Boulakia

• BPM 2015 (Business Process Management (BPM) 2015: S. Cohen-Boulakia

• ICDE 2015: Database and Semantic Web Workshop (DESWeb): P. Valduriez

• International Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF), 2014: A. Joly

• Int. Workshop on Multimedia Analysis for Environmental Data (MAED), 2014: A. Joly

• Int. Workshop on Human Centered Event Understanding from Multimedia (HuEvent), 2014: A. Joly

• Int. Workshop Computer Vision for Analysis of Underwater Imagery (CVAU), 2014: A. Joly

• Workshop on Theory and Practice of Provenance (TAPP) 2014 et 2015: S. Cohen-Boulakia

• Sigmod Workshop on scalable workflow enactment engines and technologies (SWEET) 2014: S. Cohen-Boulakia

• ICDT workshop on Algorithms and Systems for MapReduce and Beyond (BeyondMR) 2015: S. Cohen-Boulakia

Reviewing in international journals :

• Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS): F. Masseglia

• Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence: F. Masseglia

• Distributed and Parallel Databases: F. Masseglia

• VLDB Journal: A. Joly

• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI): A. Joly

• IEEE transactions on multimedia: A. Joly

• Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision (JMIV): A. Joly

• Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering: A. Joly

• EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing: A. Joly

• Computer Vision and Image Understanding Journal: A. Joly

• ACM Trans. on Database Systems: E. Pacitti

Other activities (national):

• Zenith participates in the Hemera and Grid'5000 communities by: contributing to the definition of "Storage 5000" (we help defining the financial model for teams to have their data in Grid5000) ; participating to Hemera meetings (Florent Masseglia gave a talk on "Pattern Mining from Big Data, meeting of Sept. 18, Nantes); and contributing to the prospective document of Grid5000.

• Patrick Valduriez co-organized the CEA-EDF-Inria Summer School on Big Data Analytics, 16-20 june, Cadarache, France, and gave a tutorial on “Distributed and Parallel Data Processing”.

• Patrick Valduriez is the scientific manager for the Latin America zone at Inria Direction des Relations Internationales (DRI), Member of the Scientific Committee at Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) - Défi 7 Information and communication society and Member of the Scientific Committee of the BDA conference.

• Alexis Joly was keynote speaker of the scientific days of the University of Lyon 1 (2014).

• Esther Pacitti gave an invited talk on “Profile Diversity for Query Processing using User Recommandations” at the Mastodons CrEDIBLE Workshop, Sophia-Antipolis, 9 October, and at the Seminar on Methods and Tools for Open Data, INRA, Montpellier, 18 December.

Other activities (international):

• Florent Masseglia gave a talk on “Pattern Mining from Big Data”, to the French-Japanese workshop on Big Data in Tokyo in November.

• Florent Masseglia was chair of the panel on "Privacy and Big Data", for the French-Japanese workshop on Big Data at Tokyo in November.

• Patrick Valduriez gave several talks in international events: “CloudMdsQL: Querying Heterogeneous Cloud Data Stores with a Common Language” at Inria-Technicolor Workshop on Storage and Processing of Big Data, Rennes, 3-4 december 2014, and at Workshop on DB Consistency in the Cloud, LIP6, Paris, 15-16 september 2014; “Cloud & Bigdata: opportunities and risks”, New Approaches to Economic Challenges” at OECD-ECLAC Workshop, Paris, 19 may 2014; and “Indexing and Processing Big Data” at Colloquium Indexing for Scientific Big data, Paris, 15 january 2014.

• Esther Pacitti gave talks on search and recommendation at the MUSIC Workshops, COPPE-UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, 8 August 2014, LNCC, Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, 20 October 2014, and at the GDRI Workshop on Innovative Research Issues on Web Science, Toulouse, 10-12 September.

• Sarak Cohen-Boulakia gave invited talks at Universities of Pennsylvania, April, and Humboldt, Berlin, December.