http://www-rocq.inria.fr/arles/

Contact person: Valerie Issarny



Skill: INRIA, the national institute for research in computer science and control, operating under the joint authority of the Ministries of Research and of Industry, is dedicated to fundamental and applied research in information and communication science and technology (ICST). The Institute also plays a major role in technology transfer by fostering training through research, diffusion of scientific and technical information, development, as well as providing expert advice and participating in international programs. By playing a leading role in the scientific community in the field and being in close contact with industry, INRIA is a major participant in the development of ICST in France. The Institute’s strategy closely combines scientific excellence with technology transfer. INRIA’s chief goal for 2003-2007 is to achieve major scientific and technological breakthroughs in seven priority grand challenges, among which two are directly related to PLASTIC objectives: Designing and mastering the future network infrastructures and communication services platforms and Guaranteeing the reliability and security of software-intensive systems. INRIA develops many partnerships with industry and fosters technology transfer and entrepreneurship in the field of ICST - some eighty companies have been founded.

Role: Researchers of the ARLES research group (http://www-rocq.inria.fr/arles) at INRIA-Rocquencourt will contribute to PLASTIC, bringing their expertise in the area of service-oriented middleware for mobile distributed computing with a special focus on middleware for ambient intelligence. Members of the ARLES team have contributed to a number of European and industrial projects; they are currently contributing to the IST FP6 STREP UBISEC on Ubiquitous Networks with Secure Provision of Services and IST FP6 IP Amigo on Ambient Intelligence for the networked home environment.



CVs of key persons:

Valerie Issarny got her PhD and her "habilitation a diriger des recherches" in computer science from the University of Rennes I in 1991 and 1997, respectively. She is currently senior research scientist at INRIA. Since 2002, she is the head of the ARLES INRIA research project-team at INRIA-Rocquencourt. Her research interests relate to distributed systems, software architectures, mobile systems and middleware. She has published over 60 technical papers in the area of distributed systems and software engineering, and has been involved in a number of European and industrial projects. She is currently contributing to the IST Amigo and UBISEC projects. She is chairing the executive committee of the AIR&D consortium.

Dr Nikolaos Georgantas received his degree in 1996 and his Ph.D. in 2001, both in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He is currently junior research scientist of INRIA with the ARLES research group at INRIA-Rocquencourt, France. His research interests relate to distributed systems, middleware, ubiquitous computing systems and service & network architectures for telecommunication systems. He is or has been involved in a number of European projects (ACTS EXODUS, ACTS ACCORD, IST Ozone, IST Amigo) and several industrial collaborations with the Greek industry.