Conference & Workshop organizations

• co-Track Chair of the 2018 DEVS Modeling and Simulation Track (DEVS 2018) of the 50th Summer Computer Simulation Conference (SCSC 2018), part of the 2018 Summer Simulation Multi-Conference, July 9 - 12, 2018 | Bordeaux, France.
• co-Track Chair of the 2017 DEVS Modeling and Simulation Track (DEVS 2017) of the 49th Summer Computer Simulation Conference (SCSC 2017), part of the 2017 Summer Simulation Multi-Conference, July 9 - 12, 2017 | Bellevue, Seattle Suburb, Washington, USA. Submission here CFP (PDF)
• Member of the Steering Committee of SIMUTools (2009-present)
  7th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2014), Lisbon, Portugal, March 17–19 2014.
• General Chair of the 25th IEEE/ACM/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS 2011), Nice, June 2011
• General Chair of the 2nd Int’l Conf. on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2009), Rome, Italy, March 2–6 2009
• Program Chair of the Modeling and Simulation Methodologies track (METH) of the 22d European Conference on Modeling and Simulation (ECMS08)(Nicosia, Cyprus, June 3–6 2008)
• Technical Program co-Chair of the 1st Int’l Conf. on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems (SIMUTools 2008), Marseilles, France, March 3–7 2008
• Co-Chair of the Workshop on Net-Centric Modelling & Simulation (NCM&S), satellite Workshop of the SIMUTools Conference, Marseilles, March 3–7 2008.
• Program Chair of the Modeling and Simulation Methodologies track (METH) of the 21st European Conference on Modeling and Simulation (ECMS07)(Prague, June 4–6 2007)
• Chair of the Special Session on CBSE techniques applied to Simulation of the AIS-CMS 2007 International Conference (Buenos Aires, Feb 8–10 2007)
• Organizing Committee of the Sophia Antipolis Summer School on Telecommunications (EcoTel), 200–2003; Programm Co-chair (2002).

Conference Programme Committee Memberships

• Member of the PC of the 9th EAI Intl Conf. on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools’2016), August 22–24, 2016 | Prague, Czech Republic
• Member of the PC of the Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation (DEVS/TMS’16), April 3 – 6, 2016, Pasadena, CA, USA.
• Member of the PC of the Modeling Methodology Track of the 2015 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC 2015), December 6–9 Huntington Beach, CA
• Member of the PC of the 29th ACM SIGSIM Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS 2015)
• * Member of the PC of the Symposium On Theory of Modeling and Simulation (TMS’15) April 12–15, 2015, Arlington, VA, USA
• Member of the PC of the 28th ACM SIGSIM Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS 2014)
• Member of the PC of the Symposium On Theory of Modeling and Simulation (TMS’14) April 13–16, 2014, Tampa, FL, USA

Some even older activities …

Stays abroad

• August 2013: 1 month in CSE Dept of Carleton University, Ottawa (ON) (Host: G. Wainer)
• I will be travelling around in US/Canada during spring/summer 2012, as part of my sabbatical leave semester:
  • April 2012: 1 month in CSE Dept of Carleton University, Ottawa (ON) (Host: G. Wainer, INRIA/Carleton Associate Team funding)
  • May 2012: 1 month in CS Depts. of SFU, Vancouver (BC) (Host: J. Peters, Ebco Eppich Fellowship)
  • June 2012: 1 month in CSE Dept of Carleton University, Ottawa (ON) (Host: G. Wainer, INRIA/Carleton Associate Team funding)
  • July 2012: 1 month at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (host Prof. Chris. Carothers working with Prof. Carl Tropper on PADS techniques, ANR INFRA-SONGS funding )
• July 2011: 1 month in CSE Dept of Carleton University, Ottawa (ON) (Host: G. Wainer, INRIA/Carleton Associate Team funding)
• July 2010: 1 month in CSE Dept of Carleton University, Ottawa (ON) (Host: G. Wainer)
• July 2009: 1 month in CSE Dept of Carleton University, Ottawa (ON) (Host: G. Wainer)
• December 2008: 1 week in ASU, Phoenix (AZ) (Host: H. Sarjoughian)
• July 2007: 1 month in CSE Dept of Carleton University, Ottawa (ON) (Host: G. Wainer, INRIA “Projet Explorateur” funding)

Miscellaneous tasks & memberships

• Expert reviewer for Ministry of Higher Education & Research (MESR) CIR applications (Credit Impot Recherche) (2010-)
• Member of the Comité de Sélection for a permanent faculty position at Univ. of Provence (Marseille) (2010)
• Expert reviewer for ANR projects and other similar submissions (2008)
• Member of the VerSim workgroup, where french-speaking people discuss theoretical aspects of simulation (I organized the last meeting in Sophia Antipolis, June 6th 2006)
• I am member of the Commission de Spécialistes 27e section of U. Nice (the computer science scientific committee) since 2001.
• I am also member of several committees in both my two research labs: the Commission Développements Logiciels (Sofware Developments Committee) of INRIA Sophia Antipolis, the Commision Informatique (Computing technical committee) of I3S, …
• I am member of various societies (ACM SIGSIM, ICST, IEEE CS, SCS, …). (Unless I forgot to renew membership…)