Other Activities

Conference & Workshop organizations

• Member of the Steering Committee of SIMUTools (2009-present)
  5th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2011), Sirmione, Italy, March 19–23.
• General Chair of the 25th IEEE/ACM/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS 2011), Nice, June 2011
• General Chair of the 2nd Int’l Conf. on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2009), Rome, Italy, March 2–6 2009
• Program Chair of the Modeling and Simulation Methodologies track (METH) of the 22d European Conference on Modeling and Simulation (ECMS08)(Nicosia, Cyprus, June 3–6 2008)
• Technical Program co-Chair of the 1st Int’l Conf. on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems (SIMUTools 2008), Marseilles, France, March 3–7 2008
• Co-Chair of the Workshop on Net-Centric Modelling & Simulation (NCM&S), satellite Workshop of the SIMUTools Conference, Marseilles, March 3–7 2008.
• Program Chair of the Modeling and Simulation Methodologies track (METH) of the 21st European Conference on Modeling and Simulation (ECMS07)(Prague, June 4–6 2007)
• Chair of the Special Session on CBSE techniques applied to Simulation of the AIS-CMS 2007 International Conference (Buenos Aires, Feb 8–10 2007)
• Organizing Committee of the Sophia Antipolis Summer School on Telecommunications (EcoTel), 200–2003; Programm Co-chair (2002).

Conference Programme Committee Memberships

• Member of the PC of the 2012 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC’12) (special track on Simulation Methods and Tools), Berlin, December 2012.
• Member of the PC of the 9th Intl. Conference on Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (MOSIM2012) (DEVS Session) , Bordeaux, France, June 6–8 2012.
• Member of the PC of the International Workshop on SImulation Models and Techniques for Intelligent Mobility (SIMTIM −2011), affiliated with ITST-2011, 23–25 August 2011, St Petersburg, Russia
• Member of the PC of the 1st International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH), Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 29–31 July 2011
• Member of the PC of the 2nd International Track on Collaborative Modeling & Simulation - CoMetS’11, to be held at the 20th IEEE International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Infrastructures, June 27 - June 29, 2011, Paris (France)
• Member of the PC of the DEVS Standardization Workshop of the DEVS Symposium, to be held at the SpringSim Conference, Boston, MA, April 2011.
• Member of the Omnet++ Workshop, to be held at the SIMUTools Conference, Barcelona, March 2011.
• IPC Member of the 2010 Workshop on Collaborative Modeling & Simulation (CoMetS’10) , Part of the 19th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2010), June 28 - June 30, 2010, TEI of Larissa (Greece)
• IPC Member of the 2010 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference (HPCS 2010) , In Conjunction with The International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2010), Caen, Normandy, France, June 28 - July 2, 2010
• IPC Member of the Symposium On Theory of Modeling and Simulation / DEVS Integrative M&S Symposium (DEVS’10), Part of the 2010 Spring Simulation Multiconference, April 11 - 15, 2010, Orlando, FL, USA
• IPC Member of the 2009 International Workshop on Network Simulation Tools (NSTOOLS 2009), Pisa, Italy, October 19, 2009.
• IPC Member of the 2009 High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS’09) Conference, Leipzig, Germany, June 21–24 2009.
• IPC Member of the 2nd Workshop on ns-2 (WNS2 2008) (Co-located with VALUETOOLS’08 Intl Conf, Athens, Greece, October 2008).
• IPC Member of the Workshop on Assessing Models of Networks and Distributed Computing Platforms (ASSESS08), to be held in Conjunction with the 8th IEEE Int’l Symp. on Cluster Comp. and the Grid (CCGrid 2008) (Lyon, France, 19–22 May 2008)
• PC member of the 7th French-speaking Conference on Modeling and Simulation (MOSIM’08) (Paris, March 31st - April 2nd 2008)
• IPC Member of the 2007 Industrial Simulation Conference (ISC’2007) (Delft, NL, June 11–13 2007).
• IPC Member of the Workshop on Network Simulation Tools 2007 (NSTools’07) (Co-located with VALUETOOLS’07 Intl Conf, Nantes, France, October 2007).
• IPC member of the 2007 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference (HPC&S) (Prague, June 4–6 2007)
• IPC member of the 2006 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference (HPC&S) (Bonn, May 28–31 2006)

Stays abroad

• I will be travelling around in US/Canada during spring/summer 2012, as part of my sabbatical leave semester:
  • April 2012: 1 month in CSE Dept of Carleton University, Ottawa (ON) (Host: G. Wainer, INRIA/Carleton Associate Team funding)
  • May 2012: 1 month in CS Depts. of SFU, Vancouver (BC) (Host: J. Peters, Ebco Eppich Fellowship)
  • June 2012: 1 month at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (host Prof. Chris. Carothers working with Prof. Carl Tropper on PADS techniques, ANR INFRA-SONGS funding )
  • July 2012: 1 month in CSE Dept of Carleton University, Ottawa (ON) (Host: G. Wainer, INRIA/Carleton Associate Team funding)
• July 2011: 1 month in CSE Dept of Carleton University, Ottawa (ON) (Host: G. Wainer, INRIA/Carleton Associate Team funding)
• July 2010: 1 month in CSE Dept of Carleton University, Ottawa (ON) (Host: G. Wainer)
• July 2009: 1 month in CSE Dept of Carleton University, Ottawa (ON) (Host: G. Wainer)
• December 2008: 1 week in ASU, Phoenix (AZ) (Host: H. Sarjoughian)
• July 2007: 1 month in CSE Dept of Carleton University, Ottawa (ON) (Host: G. Wainer, INRIA “Projet Explorateur” funding)

Miscellaneous tasks & memberships

• Expert reviewer for Ministry of Higher Education & Research (MESR) CIR applications (Credit Impot Recherche) (2010-)
• Member of the Comité de Sélection for a permanent faculty position at Univ. of Provence (Marseille) (2010)
• Expert reviewer for ANR projects and other similar submissions (2008)
• Member of the VerSim workgroup, where french-speaking people discuss theoretical aspects of simulation (I organized the last meeting in Sophia Antipolis, June 6th 2006)
• I am member of the Commission de Spécialistes 27e section of U. Nice (the computer science scientific committee) since 2001.
• I am also member of several committees in both my two research labs: the Commission Développements Logiciels (Sofware Developments Committee) of INRIA Sophia Antipolis, the Commision Informatique (Computing technical committee) of I3S, …
• I am member of various societies (ACM SIGSIM, ICST, IEEE CS, SCS, …). (Unless I forgot to renew membership…)