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Most Significant Contributions to Research and/or to Practical Applications

1. E-mate (§2.3.1): This research project set the foundations of research in the Network Distributed Application Area of the CRS4, Italy, at least for the next five years. E-mate will be used and extended in a newly- funded research project. This project is done in collaboration with industrial and academic partners in France and is funded by the European Community. Other research projects are currently in preparation involving both academic and commercial partners. I assumed the complete scientific direction of E-mate. I made its complete planning (schedules, tasks allocation…). I had the final decisions on all the design and implementation choices. I supervised more than fifteen people, graduate and undergraduates. Scientific publications still need to be written, however this situation should be corrected soon.

2. ReActalk (§2.3.1): ReActalk has two sons: EpiTalk and GEAMAS. I extended Reactalk towards GEAMAS with Pierre Marcenac, IREMIA, University of La Réunion, France. These two systems generated many Ph.D. thesis (>3) and referred scientific publications (>25). I designed and implemented entirely ReActalk.

3. Epitalk (§2.3.1): Epitalk was used both in academic and industrial R&D contexts. It is at the source of the research done on advisor systems at the LICEF, Tele-University. It also set the foundations for the Ph.D. thesis of S. Leman, IREMIA. I designed EpiTalk with F. Pachet, University Paris 6, France, and G. Paquette, LICEF, Tele-University, Canada. I did most of the implementation.

4. GEOMAS (§2.3.1): GEOMAS enabled to investigate processes that can neither be measured on volcanoes, nor be modelled using classical linear mechanics. Simulations gave deep insights on the real structure of the volcano Piton de la Fournaise. GEOMAS was used in Ph. D. thesis in geophysics of F. Lahaie, LGIT, Grenoble. I designed EpiTalk with P. Marcenac and J.-R. Grasso, Laboratoire de Geophysique Interne et de Tectonophysique (LGIT), University Joseph Fourrier, Grenoble, France. I co-supervised the implementation by graduate students with P. Marcenac.

5. INF6550 and TEC6200 (§2.3.1): Tele-University used these two learning environments to provide distance learning courses at graduate and undergraduate levels. At that time, they had innovative approaches to web-based distance learning environment from the viewpoint of user interfaces and flexible learning paths. I designed their pedagogical part with Richard Hotte and Kim Dao. I did all the computer architecture and program design and I supervised the implementation. I wrote all the didactic material for the two courses.

Contributions to industrially relevant research and development.

Name	Application Domain	Involved Organizations	Years
E-mate	Multi-modal on-line services	CRS4, Italy	2000-2001
Description: E-mate is a middleware for multi-modal distributed composite on-line services. Applications are a personal travel agent, a crisis management systems, and educative mobile systems. Features: Multi-device delivery of services (PC, cellular phone, digital TV). Distributed systems. Geographical Information Systems. GPS. User profiling. Meta-data. Java. XML.
PADIS	Public Administration	CRS4, Italy OLLSYS, Italy	2000-2002
Description : a framework for public administration distributed information systems. Features: Java, XML-based documents, relational databases, client-server systems. EJB. Security.
NURAXI	Distance Learning	Mediatech srl, Italy	1998-1999
Description : a platform for describing, generating and managing distance learning environments. Features: Java, XML, DB2, agents, on-the-fly individualized course material, collaborative learning.
PUR-SANG	Tele-medecine	Althin Biopharm, Canada	1998
Description: monitoring of a network of dialysis machines. Features: object-oriented design and implementation, Java, database management, tele-monitoring.
GAMME	Electronic commerce	CIRANO, Canada Bell Solutions Globales, Canada	1997-1998
Description : Smart markets and electronic auctions on the Internet. Features: concurrent object-oriented design and implementation, distributed computing, Java.
INF6550 TEC6200	Distance learning	Tele-University, Canada	1995-1997
Description : Hypermedia learning environments for distance education on the WWW. Features: hypermedia, user models, asynchronous collaborative learning, JavaScript, VRML, cgi.
GEOMAS	Geophysics	IREMIA, Un. of La Réunion, France LGIT, Grenoble, France	1995-1997
Description : a multi-agent platform for the simulation of complex systems. Features: complex (non-linear) systems, self-organized critical systems, reflection, simulation of volcanoes, concurrent systems, Smalltalk.
EpiTalk	Advisor Systems Task-support systems	LICEF, Tele-University, Canada LAFORIA, University Paris 6, France DMR, Canada	1993-1994
Description : a multi-agent platform for describing, generating and managing advisor systems. Features: task support, plan recognition, grafting on off-the-shelf applications, user models, cognitive agents, Smalltalk
ReActalk	Adaptation in Open Systems	Data Age Corporation, Canada IRO, University of Montréal, Canada	1990-1993
Description : a reflective multi-agent platform for the study of adaptation. Features: open concurrent systems, adaptive mechanisms, Smalltalk

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