MISTRAL has ended in September 2003. Its successor is MAESTRO. Academic collaborations PAI research program Van Gogh with the Netherlands The theme of this 2-year project (2001-2002) is the application of neuro-dynamic programming to the controlled of some discrete-events systems. Our Dutch partners are Prof. G. Koole and the people from his group at Vrije University in Amsterdam. ARC-en-Ciel research program with Israel The theme of this 2-year project (2002-2003) in collaboration with Prof. U. Yechiali from the University of Tel-Aviv, is the development of optimal routing techniques for networks when the information is delayed or incomplete. INRIA/NSF cooperation MISTRAL is formally associated with a 5-year NSF ITR (Information Technology Research) project entitled ``QoS in the future Internet". US parnters are R. Guérin (univ. pf Pennsylvanie), J. Kurose et D. Towsley (univ. of Massachusetts), Z.-L. Zhang (univ. of Minnesota). The objective of the project is to develop a theoretical framework within which to evaluate different architectures (diffserv, etc.). The projet started in 2001. ARC TCP The theme of this 2-year project (2002-2003) is the development of models and algorithms for TCP/IP Networks. Partners are INRIA projects ARMOR, HIPERCOM, PLANETE, RAP and TREC, LIRMM (A. Jean-Marie), France Telecom R&D (T. Bonald. P. Brown, F. Guillemin, J. Roberts) and EPFL (J.-Y. Le Boudec, P. Thiran). COLOR Discont This 1-year research program (2002) with Eurecom (E. Biersack, K. W. Ross) and LIRMM (A. Jean-Marie) bears on the performance evaluation of content distribution systems. @Webmaster