Activities

Blockchains systems evolve in complex environments that mix classical patterns of faults with selfish, rational or irrational behaviours typical of economic systems. During the presentation [...]

Here the abstract and bibliography provided by Professor Mazumdar for his talk: http://www.lincs.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/FCLT_MFE.pdf 

Containers are one of the fundamentals of cloud native application development. Popularized by Docker and now widely adopted by the cloud computing industry, containers paved [...]

Computer scientists seek to understand what can be automated, but what do we know about automating our own work? Can we outsource our own research [...]

In 1948 Shannon published the article that defines modern information theory. For this reading group, we will briefly remind the first part of the article [...]

One of the very important technologies for 5G is multi-user massive MIMO. It has the potential to deliver excellent performance if used well. However, it [...]

In 1948 Shannon published the article that defines modern information theory. For this reading group, we will briefly remind the first part of the article [...]

Please, find here the abstract and bibliography provided by Professor Mazumdar for his talk: http://www.lincs.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Bidding_LINCS_Jan2021.pdf Here, Professor Mazumdar's webpage with info on his academic path: [...]

According to its website, fastcore is a set of "Python goodies to make your coding faster, easier, and more maintainable". "Fastcore [adds] to Python features [...]

Edit distances quantify how dissimilar two strings are by counting the minimum number of edit operation (insertion, deletion, etc) to transform one string into the [...]

Transformers architectures have been dominating the benchmarks of most Natural Language Processing tasks for the past 3 years with new models popping up every week, [...]

Mission-critical communications (MCC) involve all communications between people in charge of the safety of the civil society. MCC have unique requirements that include improved reliability, [...]

Bayesian optimization proves to be useful when our goal is to i) optimize an unknown function, that we can learn by sampling ii) our sample [...]

In this talk I will present the vision of self-adjusting networks: communication networks whose physical topology adapts to the traffic pattern it serves, in a [...]

Building a modern, scalable and fault-tolerant system in Python has never been so easy and enjoyable. Here is some takeaways of building such system in [...]

Multi-winner voting rules aggregate the opinions of several agents and yield a set of several options. We will give an overview of the classic rules [...]

Reliable communication is a fundamental primitive in distributed systems prone to Byzantine (i.e. arbitrary, and possibly malicious) failures to guarantee integrity, delivery, and authorship of [...]

In many scientific fields, studied data have an underlying graph or manifold structure such as communication networks (whether social or technical), knowledge graphs or molecules. [...]

The LINCS community is encouraged to participate in an exceptional Wednesday meeting with Fabien Mathieu to check, discuss and exchange about a new tool to share [...]

The socket library permits programs that execute on various machines over a network to communicate. This talk will review the basics of the Python socket [...]

To meet carbon reduction goals in Europe but worldwide too, a large number of renewable distributed energy resources (DER) still need to be deployed. Aiming [...]

The notion of Laplacian of a graph can be generalized to simplicial complexes and hypergraphs. This notion contains information on the topology of these structures. [...]

Edge Computing exploits computational capabilities deployed at the very edge of the network to support applications with low latency requirements. Such capabilities can reside in [...]

In this talk, we are investigating a selection of problems related to the process of voting on a (social) network. Among other problems, I am [...]

In many fields of interest, Markov processes are a primary modelisation tool for random processes. Unfortunately it is often necessary to use very large or [...]

Machine learning (ML) algorithms are designed to learn models that have the ability to take decisions or make predictions from data, in a large panel [...]

Critical services in 5G networks, denoted by Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC), allow the existence of many promising applications such as factory automation, remote surgery and [...]

Two independent tools will be presented for this session. Pyinstaller is a tool that converts Python code in standalone executable. The goal is not to [...]

The limited power requirements of new generations of base stations make the use of renewable energy sources, solar in particular, extremely attractive for mobile network [...]

When working with interacting particle systems, mean-field models provide a link between models on a microscopic scale describing the behavior of the system and simplified [...]

Services often consists of independent components that can be executed independently (so-called microservices) and they often deal with very large user populations. This setup presents [...]

SimPy is a python package for discrete event simulations based on python’s standard generators. This tutorial will demonstrate how you can use SimPy to implement [...]

Introduced by Rybko and Stolyar in 1992, fluid-scaling and fluid limits offer a systematic way to study the stability or instability of queuing networks over [...]

Cloud computing in addition to being a large industry can also seem daunting to understand. In this introduction, we will present in a very didactic [...]

A one-day collaborative workshop gathering researchers from LINCS and engineers from SystemX who will share their ongoing research to consolidate joint R&D activities, to create [...]

Edge Computing (EC) is a network paradigm in which computational resources, e.g., CPU, memory, are distributed in the access networks, close to the final users. [...]

With the goal of replacing proprietary hardware appliances with Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) implemented in software, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has gained popularity in the [...]

Iterators are simple tools to browse objects in Python. They define a unique interface called iteration protocol, that enables to decorrelate the objects that contain [...]

This thesis contributes to the understanding of the organizational phenomenon of FabLabs, which aims to democratize personal digital manufacturing and promote knowledge sharing. To this [...]

Blockchains are one of most appealing technologies over the last years, both for scientists and for the general public. Blockchains are distributed ledgers that aim [...]

The world is suffering from a pandemic called COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. National governments have problems evaluating the reach of the epidemic, due [...]

Many reinforcement learning problems can be seen from the point of view of stochastic approximation. Unfortunately, classic stochastic approximation algorithms, such as Robbins-Monro, may have [...]

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a novel trend in IT networks which advocates replacing hardware middleboxes with equivalent pieces of code executed on general-purpose servers. [...]

In this second session about collections, I will talk about dictionaries and their main subclasses: OrderedDict, defaultdict, Counter and ChainMap.

Since the introduction of Google’s Page Rank method for Web searches in the late 1990s, graph algorithms have been part of our daily lives. In [...]

We study an N-player game where a pure action of each player is to select a non-negative function on a Polish space supporting a finite [...]

I will talk about collections in Python. Sets: set, frozenset. Sequences: tuple, named tuples, list, deque (we will just mention str and bytes). Mappings: dict, [...]