Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• P. Valduriez: general chair of the VLDB Latin America Data Science Workshop (LaDAS@VLDB 2018)

• P. Valduriez: scientific chair, First Data Science School, IMSP, Django, Bénin

Member of the Organizing Committees

• A. Joly: organizing committee of the international conference CLEF 2018 and the chair of the LifeCLEF track, Avignon, sept. 2018 (http://clef2018.clef-initiative.eu/)

• A. Joly: organizing committee of the Floris'tic national workshop held in Montpellier, nov. 2018 (http://floristic.org/journeefloristic/)

• A. Liutkus: organizer of the 2018 Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign (https://sisec18.unmix.app/)

• F. Masseglia: finance chair of IEEE ICDE 2018 (https://icde2018.org)

• F. Masseglia: organization commitee of the Inria Science Days 2018 (https://www.inria.fr/en/news/news-from-inria/inria-science-days-2018)

• P. Valduriez: sponsor co-chair of IEEE ICDE 2018 (https://icde2018.org)

• P. Valduriez: sponsor co-chair of VLDB 2018 (https://vldb2018.lncc.br)

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• A. Joly: area chair of ACM Multimedia 2018 (http://www.acmmm.org/2018)

• E. Pacitti: PC chair of the VLDB workshop on Big Social Data and Urban Computing (BiDU@VLDB 2018)

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC) Data Mining track, 2018: F. Masseglia

• IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM), 2018: F. Masseglia

• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), "Sister Conference Best Paper Track", 2018: F. Masseglia

• International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS), 2018: F. Masseglia

• Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2018: F. Masseglia

• European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD), 2018: F. Masseglia

• IEEE Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE AIKE), 2018: F. Masseglia

• International Conference on Information Management and Big Data (SIMBig), 2018: F. Masseglia

• International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications (DATA), 2018: F. Masseglia

• International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2018: R. Akbarinia

• International Workshop on Big Data Management in Cloud Systems, 2018: R. Akbarinia

• Int. Conf. on Extending DataBase Technologies (EDBT), 2019: E. Pacitti

• Int. Conf. on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), 2018: A. Joly

• Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2018: A. Joly

• Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (CVPR), 2018: A. Joly

• Int. Conf. and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF), 2018: A. Joly

• European. Conf. on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2019: A. Joly

• Conférence sur la Gestion de Données – Principes, Technologies et Applications (BDA 2018): F. Masseglia, E. Pacitti

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• 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.

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

• Multimedia Tools and Applications: A. Joly.

• Plant Methods: C. Pradal.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

Reviewing in international journals :

• Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD): R. Akbarinia, E. Pacitti, P. Valduriez

• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE): R. Akbarinia, F. Masseglia

• VLDB Journal: R. Akbarinia

• ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS): A. Joly

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

• Information Sciences: A. Joly

• Ecological Informatics: A. Joly

• Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal (MTAP): A. Joly

• Multimedia Systems: A. Joly

• Transactions on Information Forensics & Security: A. Joly

• International Journal of Computer Vision: A. Joly

• Transactions on Image Processing: A. Joly

• ACM Trans. on Database Systems: E. Pacitti

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

• IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing (TSP): A. Liutkus

• IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing (TASLP): A. Liutkus

• IEEE Signal Processing Magazine: A. Liutkus

• Frontiers in Plant Science: C. Pradal

Invited Talks

• A. Joly: keynote talk on "Towards The Recognition of the World's Flora: When HPC Meets Deep Learning" at Digital Infrastructures 2018 on Oct. 10

• A. Joly: keynote talk on "The Recognition of the World's Flora" at Terratec 2018

• A. Liutkus: tutorial on music source separation at the International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2018).

• F. Masseglia: talk on "Massively Distributed Data Analytics", IRISA (Lacodam team), April 2018

• F. Masseglia: talk on "Massively Distributed Time Series Indexing and Querying", LIMOS, December 2018

• P. Valduriez: keynote talk on "Blockchain 2.0: opportunities and risks" on 29 may at Africatek 2018, Cotonou, Bénin, on 25 october at BDA 2018, Bucharest, Romania, and on 19 december at Colloquim COPPE/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro

• C. Pradal: keynote talk on "OpenAlea : an open source project for plant modelling at different scales", August 2018, Crops in Silico Symposium, NCSA, Univ. Illinois, USA.

• C. Pradal: keynote talk on "OpenAlea : a modular platform for multiscale plant modelling", April 2018, EGU 2018, Vienna, Austria.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• A. Joly: scientific manager of the LifeCLEF and Pl@ntNet research platforms

• A. Liutkus: elected member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing

• F. Masseglia: “Chargé de mission pour la médiation scientifique Inria” and head of Inria's national network of colleagues involved in science popularization

• E. Pacitti: head of Polytech' Montpellier's Direction of Foreign Relationships

• P. Valduriez: scientific manager for the Latin America zone at Inria's Direction of Foreign Relationships (DPEI)

• P. Valduriez: President of the Steering Committee of the BDA conference

Scientific Expertise

• R. Akbarinia, F. Masseglia: reviewer for international programs (STIC AmSud, ECOS SUD).

• R. Akbarinia: expert for the French National Research Agency (ANR).

• A: Joly: reviewer for STIC AmSud international program

• F. Masseglia: scientific referent for Inria on the frame agreement with SAFRAN about "System Monitoring and Data Analytics"

• E. Pacitti: reviewer for STIC AmSud international program

• P. Valduriez: reviewer for STIC AmSud international program

• P. Valduriez: reviewer for NSERC (Canada)

• C. Pradal: reviewer for STIC AmSud international program

• C. Pradal: member of CSS EGBIP ( Commissions Scientifiques Spécialisées) INRA