RIOPE

• Title: Recherche Iterative d'Objets PEdagogiques
• Type: Incentive Institut Telecom project
• Duration: 2008 - 2009
• URL: https://picoforge.int-evry.fr/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Riope/Web/
• Responsable for SIMBAD: Alda Gancarski
• Description
  

  RIOPE project is about the definition and validation of an environment for the dynamic search and composition of learning objects.
  Le projet RIOPE porte sur la definition et la validation d'un environnement de recherche et de composition dynamique de ressources pedagogiques centre sur les auteurs. Il existe aujourd'hui de nombreuses bases de ressources en ligne (par exemple EducaNext), mais qui offrent en general des fonctionnalites de recherche et surtout de reutilisation peu evoluees. Ceci est un frein a l'utilisation massive des ressources pedagogiques et au lancement d'une veritable economie de l'education numerique. Pourtant, les normes et standards existant (LOM, SCORM) ainsi que plusieurs propositions issues de la recherche (SIMBAD, SCARCE) permettent de construire des ressources decrites avec un ensemble riche de metadonnees et structurees de maniere a faciliter leur reutilisation. Dans le cadre de RIOPE, nous proposons de travailler a la conception, au developpement et a la validation d'un environnement centre auteurs leur permettant de creer dynamiquement et de facon iterative leurs propres ressources a partir d'autres existantes.

SCOrWare

• Title: Service Component Oriented softWare
• Type: National project (ANR)
• Duration: January 2007 - December 2008
• URL: www.scorware.org
• Responsable for SIMBAD: Samir Tata
• Description
  

  The SCOrWare project aims at providing an open source implementation of the recent Service Component Architecture (SCA) specifications defined by the Open SOA collaboration, an industrial consortium in the domain of software engineering, including BEA Systems, IBM Corporation, IONA Technologies, Oracle, Red Hat, Rogue Wave Software, Siemens, Sun Microsystems, and Sybase. Briefly, SCA defines a new architecture and programming model for Service Oriented Applications (SOA) based on the component paradigm and supporting several service description languages such as WSDL and Java interfaces, several programming languages such as Java, C++, and BPEL, several communication protocols between applications such as SOAP, CORBA, Java RMI, and JMS. My role within this project is semantic description and discovery of SCA components.

RESPIRE

• Title: Peer-to-peer resources and services, querying and replication
• Type: National project (ANR)
• Duration: 2006 - December 2008
• URL: respire.lip6.fr
• Responsable for SIMBAD: Bruno Defude
• Description
  

  Respire aims to provide a peer-to-peer (P2P) environment for advanced data management applications. It gathers research teams from the "databases" area and from the "distributed systems" area, in order to take advantage from their respective background, to have a more global view of the problem and to raise synergism.
  The benefits of a P2P architecture is the scalability based on autonomic peers which may at any moment join/leave the network, publish resources (data and services) for sharing, use resources published by other peers and eventually take part in a collaborative work process. There are many target applications, mainly those gathering world-wide spread professional communities (ex. researchers) or e-learning. Those applications manipulate heterogenous, semantically rich data, and thus require more advanced functionalities than the simple key-based file sharing and retrieval usually proposed by P2P systems
  Respire is based on the JXTA infrastructure which provides a complete abstraction from the underlying P2P network organization (DHT, flooding, super-peer). Respire services are divided into basic services (peer management, communication management, group subscribing, notification, data storage and key-based retrieval) and advanced service which rely upon basic services for data access (querying), logical clustering, collaborative work and distributed query evaluation. Part of basic services will be provided by the JXTA infrastructure. The main actions that will be developed in the project are resource access and sharing, managing logical cluster, handling replication and automated deployment of the environment.

TANDEM

• Title:
• Type: RNTS project
• Duration: 2006 - 2008
• URL: www.tandem.vermeil.org & www.tandem.memosyn.org
• Responsable for SIMBAD: Bruno Defude
• Description
  

  L'objectif de ce projet est l'evaluation de l'acceptabilite par les patients et les familles d'un systeme d'aide informatise a domicile bien concu, facile a manier, fiable, sur, teste et valide, et destine a jouer le role d'un aidant supplementaire dans la prise en charge globale des patients souffrant de maladie d'Alzheimer. Decembre 2005 a decembre 2009. Partenaires du projet : Hopital Broca-Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris, TELECOM SudParis - Institut TELECOM, Groupe ESIEE-ISTM-Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris, Laboratoire TIMC-IMAG-UMR CNRS 5525- Universite Joseph Fourier-Grenoble 1, Pole geriatrie du CHU de Toulouse, CGx-Systemes SAS.

SIAS

• Title: Systemes d'Information Adaptatifs et Semantiques
• Type: Incentive Institut Telecom project
• Duration: 2006 - 2007
• URL: sias.enstb.org
• Responsable for SIMBAD: Claire Lecocq
• Description
  

  L'evolution actuelle des systemes d'information (SI) va vers plus de personnalisation et de reutilisation dans un environnement informatique marque par la repartition et les technologies du web (dont les services web). La notion de composition de ressources (documents, presentations, composants, web services, etc) devient centrale. Le projet SIAS s'interesse aux systemes d'information adaptatifs et semantiques vues comme des systemes dynamiques, distribues et adaptatifs fondes sur des mecanismes de composition et des modeles semantiques. L'idee de ce projet incitatif est donc de chercher a mieux analyser la notion de composition pour etre capable de definir ensuite des moteurs de composition beaucoup plus reutilisables et flexibles. L'innovation et la contribution principales de ce projet resident dans l'etude meme de la notion de composition, de la reutilisation et de la flexibilite des moteurs de composition et de ses impacts sur la conception des systemes d'information de demain.

S4ALL

• Title: Services for all
• Type: European project (ITEA)
• Duration: July 2005 - June 2007
• URL: www.hiit.fi/fi/s4all
• Responsable for SIMBAD: Samir Tata
• Description
  

  S4ALL aimed to allow users to create and share mobile and user centered services as easy as it is for web pages. The project addresses two main issues: the service-creation process and the associated service execution environment. Service creation will become much simpler, thanks to graphical tools based on manipulation of icons representing existing services or capabilities; this will allow anyone to create or customize their own mobile and personalized services. An enhanced middleware layer will permit the implementation of service oriented architecture (SOA) principles such as a loosely coupled approach, generalized semantic publishing and discovery, and fast and automatic deployment of components. It also allow anyone to host and manage their services on a personal computer (PC) or mobile terminal, thanks to the use and improvement of ObjectWeb open-source solutions such as open-source cluster application resources (OSCAR) and Java open application server (JOnAS).

RAREII

• Title: A learning-based approach for query routing for P2P systems (Routage de requetes optimise par apprentissage dans les architectures P2P)
• Type: Incentive Institut Telecom project
• Duration: 2005 - 2006
• URL: www-inf.int-evry.fr/~defude/RARE
• Responsable for SIMBAD: Bruno Defude
• Description
  

  The RAREII project is the successor of the RARE project on semantic P2P systems. RARE main results are a dataset generator, a P2P simulator based on PeerSim, routing and learning algorithms based on past queries and peer's content, efficient broadcast of routing informations. RARE II innovates in the following areas:
  - analysis of the temporal evolution of peer's content and queries
  - simulation of P2P systems including a user-model
  - learning-based routing of queries (coupling neural network and Bloom filters