Dependability, Interoperability and PerfOrmaNce analYsiS of netwOrkS

The goal of F-Interop is to extend FIRE+ with online interoperability and performance test tools supporting emerging IoT-related technologies from research to standardization and to market launch for the benefit of researchers, product development by SME, and standardization processes. 9.4. International Initiatives 9.4.1. Inria International Partners 9.4.1.1. Informal International Partners We maintain a strong line of collaborations with the Technical University Federico Santa María (UTFSM), Valparaíso, Chile. Over the years, this has taken different forms (associated team Manap, Stic AmSud project “AMMA”, Stic AmSud project “DAT”). In 2018, we finished a joint PhD work (co-tutelle PhD of Nicolás Jara), and a new joint PhD will start in 2019 (PhD of Jonathan Olavarría). The first one was on optical network analysis and design; the second one’s topic is on modeling evaluation techniques, with focus on Stochastic Activity Networks. 9.4.2. Participation in Other International Programs ECOS-Sud project MASC: Mathematical Algorithms for Semantic Cognition. MASC is a three-year project (code U17E03) with the Faculty of Sciences of the university of the Republic, in Uruguay, on the application of mathematical modeling tools to a better understanding of a cognitive disease called semantic dementia. This involves Prof. Eduardo Mizraji and Jorge Graneri, a PhD student whose co-advisors are Prof. Mizraji and G. Rubino from Dionysos, plus Pablo Rodríguez Bocca, from the Engineering Faculty of the university of the Republic. Our contribution to this project is around the use of mathematical models of neural structures. 9.5. International Research Visitors • Pierre L’Ecuyer holds an Inria International Chair, Nov. 2013Oct. 2018. • Three colleagues from the University of the Republic, Uruguay, visited us in 2018. First, Jorge Graneri, in the context of the starting ECOS project MASC (July–August), then Professor Gustavo Guerberoff to work on mathematical problems related to reliability network models (October–November), and then Professor Pablo Rodríguez Bocca, to work also on the previously entioned ECOS project. 9.5.1. Visits to International Teams 9.5.1.1. Research Stays Abroad • Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul was able to benefit from a one-month scientific stay at the Metropolitan University of Manchester (MMU), in June 2018. This stay was part of the “Research and knowledge Exchange Funding” program run by the MMU.