Main research problems (PYRAMIDE team)
Research Topics
- Query optimization in large-scale environments
- Data replication in large scale (Grid, Cloud) systems
- Database query performance
Keyword Cloud
PhD and habilitation
Habilitation thesis (HDR)
I defended my habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) “Contribution to Data Replication in Large Scale Data Management Systems“ on November 17th, 2020, at Paul Sabatier University Toulouse 3. The jury was composed by:
Reviewers: Pr. E. Pacitti (Univ. de Montpellier); Pr. M. S. Hacid (Univ. Claude Bernard, Lyon 1) & Pr. F. Toumani (Univ. Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand)
Examinators: Pr. C. Roncancio (Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble – ENSIMAG); Pr. F. Morvan (UPS, Toulouse 3); Pr. J. M. Pierson (UPS, Toulouse 3) & Dr. Pr. P. Valduriez (Inria, LIRMM Montpellier) (President of the jury)
Coordinator: Pr. A. Hameurlain (UPS, Toulouse 3).
PhD thesis
I defended my PhD thesis “Algebraic signatures for distributed and scalable database management“ on June 23rd, 2006, at Paris 9 Dauphine University. The jury was composed by:
Reviewers: Pr. T. Schwarz (Santa Clara Univ., USA) & Dr. Pr. P. Valduriez (INRIA, Nantes)
Examinators: Pr. P. Rigaux (Paris 9 Dauphine University) (President of the jury) & Pr. T. Risch (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Research Director: Pr. W. Litwin (Paris 9 Dauphine University)
Supervision of PhD students
Current PhD supervisions
Amir Najjar (since Oct. 2023), UPS Toulouse 3. Réplication de données basée sur l’apprentissage par renforcement dans les systèmes à grande échelle. Supervision with Pr. J. M. Pierson.
Fahem Arar (since Nov. 2022), ESI – Algiers. Exploitation de l’apprentissage pour la réplication de données dans les systèmes Cloud. Supervision with Pr. D. Zegour.
Antoine Bugnicourt (since Nov. 2020), UPS Toulouse 3. CIFRE contract between UPS – Toulouse 3 and MeetDeal. Analyse de flux de données répartis à grande échelle dirigée par les besoins des usagers. Supervision with Pr. F. Morvan.
Hagamalala Bernardin (since Oct. 2019), University of Fianarantsoa, Madagascar. Conception d’une stratégie de réplication de données orientée locataires dans les systèmes multi-Cloud. Supervision with Pr. F. Morvan.
Past PhD supervisions
Abdenour Lazeb (defended on October 2023), University of Oran 1, Algeria. Gestion de données à base de modèles économiques dans les systèmes Cloud. Supervision with Pr. G. Belalem.
Amel Khelifa (defended on September 2022), Faculty of sciences of Tunis. Réplication de données basée sur la corrélation de données dans les systèmes Cloud. Supervision with T. Hamrouni.
Morgan Seguela (defended on May 2022). UPS. Stratégie de réplication de données prenant en compte la consommation énergétique dans les systèmes Cloud. Supervision with Pr. J. M. Pierson.
Uras Tos (defended on June 2017). Co-tutelle between UPS – Toulouse 3 and Ege University, Turkey. Réplication de données dans les systèmes de gestion de données à grande échelle. Supervision with Pr. A. Hameurlain and T. Ayav.
Khaoula Tabet (defended on Dec. 2018). University of Tebessa, Algeria. Réplication de données dans les systèmes Cloud : Application pour les projets territoriaux. Supervision with Pr. R. Laouar.
Said Limam (defended on Oct. 2018). University of Oran, Algeria. Vers une gestion efficace de réplication et de cohérence des données dans les Clouds Computing. Participation on the supervision with Pr. G. Belalem.
Imen Ketata (defended on Jan. 2012). UPS. Découverte de ressources prenant en compte l’hétérogénéité sémantique dans les grilles de données. Supervision with Pr. F. Morvan.
Scientific animation, expertise and editorial responsabilities
Member of the commission ‘Produits de la recherche’ CPRODRECH (since Jan. 2022)
Representation of the GD department (Gestion de Données) in the IRIT cellule stratégique (Jan. 2019 – Dec. 2020)
Invitation to coordinate a special Issue IJCSSE (Int. Journal on Computer Systems Science & Engineering). Special Issue on Elastic Data Management in Cloud Systems. Vol. 32, Issue 4 th July 2017. T. Dillon and E. Chang (Ed.). CRL Publishing. (CSSE-Computer Systems Science and Engineering (techscience.com)
Project Evaluation (e.g., STIC AmSud2019)
Reviewer for several international journals. Mainly (since 2015):
J. of Grid Computing (Sringer) 2016 ; Trans. on Large Scale Data & Knowledge Centered Systems (TLDKS), 2015, 2019, 2021 & 2022; J. of Systems and Software (Elsevier) 2017 and 2021; Simulation Modeling: Practice and Theory (Elsevier) 2017 and 2019 ; Int. J. of Grid and Utility Computing (Inderscience) 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021; Computer Science & Information Systems (ComSID) 2018; J. of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Elsevier) 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021; J. of Cluster Computing (Springer) 2019, 2020 & 2021; Int. J. of Cloud Applications and Computing (IGI Global) 2018, 2019 & 2021; J. of Soft Computing (Springer) 2019; Artificial Intelligence (Springer) 2020; Electronis (MDPI). Sensors (MDPI) 2020 & 2021 ; Int. J. of Network Management (Willey) 2021; Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley) 2021, Cybernetics and System, 2023; Connection Science, 2023; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, (Science Direct) 2023…etc.
Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Information Analysis in 2023;
Invitation to program committees of international conferences and workshops: DEXA (since 2010), GLOBE [2008-2015], BDMICS (2016, 2017 and 2018), BDA (2011 and 2021), CCGRID (2012), iiWas (2013 and 2014), IADIS [2008-2017], BDAW (2016), ISNCC (since 2017), ICSOC (since 2019)…etc.
Vulgarization
Participation in Cloud Days 2019 on September 12 and 13, 2019 in Toulouse. Transverse action ‘Virtualisation et Cloud’ organized by the GdR RSD (Networks and Distributed Systems).
Presentation of Morgan Séguéla’s thesis work during the evaluation of IRIT by HCERES in Nov. 2019.
Awards
PEDR (2015-2019)
PEDR (2020-2024)
Best paper in international conferences (iiWas’2010, CBDCom’2016,…)