December 2012 archive

A Decentralized Management Approach for Data-intensive Scientific Workflows

PhD. thesis Director: Patrick Valduriez, senior researcher at INRIA Supervisor: Hinde Bouziane, associate professor at University Montpellier 2 The ZENITH team is interested in the management of scientific applications that are computation intensive and that manipulate large amounts of data. These applications are often represented by workflows, which describe sequences of tasks (computations) and data …

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Zenith seminar: Florent Masseglia,”Big Data Mining”, December 13, 2012.

Florent Masseglia will present a survey on Big Data Mining December 13 at 10:30am, room G.127. Title: Big Data Mining Abstract: In this talk I will adopt a “binary” point of view on big data (i.e. data streams, and data that is so large and complex that it has to be managed in a cloud). …

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Patrick Valduriez named ACM Fellow

The prestigious distinction from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) was recently awarded to a French national for the third time. This is a major honour for Patrick Valduriez, Senior Researcher at Inria and leader of the Zenith joint project-team with LIRMM* in Montpellier. As one of the most influential computing societies in the scientific …

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Workshop Mastodons@Montpellier: Gestion de Données à Grande Echelle en Science de la Vie

Vendredi 7 décembre 2012 de 9h à 17h Lieu: Salle des séminaires, LIRMM, 161 rue Ada, 34392 Montpellier Contacts: Esther.Pacitti@lirmm.fr et Eric.Rival@lirmm.fr Site (pour s’inscrire): http://www.lirmm.fr/~pacitti/Mastodons.html La biologie et ses applications, de la médecine à l’agronomie ou l’écologie, deviennent des sciences productrices des données massives et exigent des nouvelles approches computationnelles pour analyser et partager …

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Zenith scientific seminar: Marta Mattoso,”Exploring Provenance in High Performance Scientific Computing”, December 6, 2012.

Marta Mattoso is Professor of the Department of Computer Science at the COPPE Institute from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) since 1994, where she leads the Distributed Database Research Group. She has received the D.Sc degree from UFRJ. Dr. Mattoso has been active in the database research community for more than twenty years and her …

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Zenith scientific seminar: Duy Hoa Ngo,”Enhancing Ontology Matching by Using Machine Learning, Graph Matching and Information Retrieval Techniques”, December 3, 2012.

Hoa will give a talk about his thesis work on Ontology Matching. He will defend his thesis a few days later (date to be announced). Title: Enhancing Ontology Matching by Using Machine Learning, Graph Matching and Information Retrieval Techniques Abstract: In recent years, ontologies have attracted a lot of attention in the Computer Science community, …

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