Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

Member of the Organizing Committees

• François Taïani served as Co-Organizer of the 8th Inria/Technicolor Workshop On Systems (WOS8), Rennes, France, December 2018.

• François Taïani served as Communication Chair of the 19th ACM/IFIP/Usenix International Conference on Middleware (Middleware), Rennes, France, December 2018.

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• François Taïani served as PC Co-Chair of the 2nd Workshop on Scalable and Resilient Infrastructures for Distributed Ledgers (SERIAL), Rennes, France, December 2018.

• François Taïani served as PC Co-Chair of the 6th Edition of The International Conference on NETworked sYStems (NETYS), Essaouira, Morocco, May 2018.

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Pierre-Louis Roman served on the PC of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC), Athens, Greece, August 2018.

• Pierre-Louis Roman served on the PC of the 15th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms and Networks (I-SPAN), Yichang, China, October 2018.

• Pierre-Louis Roman served on the PC of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing (SC2), Paris, France, November 2018.

• Pierre-Louis Roman served on the PC of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA), Paris, France, November 2018.

• Davide Frey served of the PC of the Industry Track of the 2018 ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference, Rennes, France, December 2018.

• Davide Frey served on the PC of the 18th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS), 2018.

• François Taïani served on the PC of the 19th ACM/IFIP/Usenix International Conference on Middleware (Middleware), Rennes, France, December 2018.

• François Taïani served on the PC of the 38th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), in the Dependability Track track, Vienna, Austria, July 2018.

• François Taïani served on the PC of the Conférence d'informatique en Parallélisme, Architecture et Système (Compas), Toulouse, France, July 2018.

• François Taïani served on the PC of The 48th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Luxembourg, June 2018.

• George Giakkoupis served on the PC of he 22nd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS), Hong Kong, December 2018.

Journal

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• Anaïs Durand was a reviewer for Theoretical Computer Science (TCS).

• Davide Frey was a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS).

• François Taïani was a reviewer for Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA, Elsevier).

• George Giakkoupis was a reviewer for Journal of the ACM (JACM).

• George Giakkoupis was a reviewer for Algorithmica (ALGO).

• George Giakkoupis was a reviewer for ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing (TOPC).

• George Giakkoupis was a reviewer for Theoretical Computer Science (TCS).

Invited Talks

• Pierre-Louis Roman. Shortcutting the Bitcoin verification process for your smartphone. EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1 November 2018.

• Pierre-Louis Roman. Shortcutting the Bitcoin verification process for your smartphone. Master Workshop Layer 1 Solutions, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 18 November 2018.

• Anaïs Durand. Contention-Related Crash Failures. Descartes ANR project meeting, IRIF, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France, 1 October, 2018.

• François Taïani. Possible Future Careers after the PhD. Nantes Plenary Meeting and Training School, BigStorage European Training Network (ETN), Nantes, France, 25-28 June 2018.

• François Taïani. Pleiades: Distributed Structural Invariants at Scale. Delyss/Whisper Inria Team Retrait, Saint-Valéry, France, 18-20 June 2018.

• François Taïani. Pleiades: Distributed Structural Invariants at Scale. Plenary Meeting of the Dionasys Project, Saint-Jacut, France, 23 May 2018.

• François Taïani. Being Prepared in a Sparse World: The Case of KNN Graph Construction. EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, January 2018.

• George Giakkoupis. Random binary search trees with concurrent insertions. Theory Seminar, Technion, Haifa, Israel, 31 October 2018.

• George Giakkoupis. Random binary search trees with concurrent insertions. Randomized Algorithms Seminar, University of Cambridge, UK, 2 August 2018.

• George Giakkoupis. Random binary search trees with concurrent insertions. ART-Oberseminar, University of Hamburg, Germany, 19 July 2018.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• François Taïani has been a member of the Steering Committee of IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS) since 2013.

• François Taïani served on the award committee of the Prix de thèse Gilles Kahn 2018, sponsored by the French Science Academy (Académie des Sciences), and awarded by the French Informatics Society (SiF).

• Michel Raynal has been Adjunct Professor at the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong since 2013.

• Michel Raynal has been a member of the Executive board of the SIF (Société d'Informatique Française) since 2013.

• Michel Raynal is European representative at the IEEE Technical Committee on distributed computing.

Research Administration

• Davide Frey is Correspondant Scientifique Europe at the DPEI for Inria Rennes

• Davide Frey is an associate member of the COST-GTRI of Inria.

• François Taïani has been a member of the Scientific Orientation Committee (COS) of IRISA (UMR 6074) since 2013.