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Nov 2020

18 Nov

SimPy Package tutorial

18/11/2020    
10:45 am-12:15 pm
Thomas Tournaire
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 [...]
04 Nov

Fluid limits : a useful tool to study the stability of queuing networks

04/11/2020    
10:45 am-12:15 pm
Pierre Popineau
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 [...]

Oct 2020

28 Oct

What problems does cloud solve? Non BS introduction by a former academic.

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 [...]
21 Oct

Seminar Presentation by a new LINCS associate member "Multi-Tenant Resource Allocation at the Network Edge"

21/10/2020    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Andrea Araldo
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. [...]
14 Oct

Seminar Presentation by a new LINCS associate member "Performance Benchmarking of State-of-the-Art Software Switches for NFV"

14/10/2020    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Tianzhu Zhang
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 [...]
14 Oct

Iterators: A Simple Tool to Browse Objects in Python

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 [...]
07 Oct

"CoronaSurveys: Using Indirect Reporting to Estimate the Incidence of Epidemics"

07/10/2020    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Antonio Fernández Anta
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 [...]
07 Oct

Zap Stochastic Approximation and Reinforcement Learning

07/10/2020    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
François Durand
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 [...]

Sep 2020

23 Sep

Seminar Presentation by a new LINCS associate member "On the inference of high-speed networks’ behavior via Machine Learning"

23/09/2020    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Leonardo Linguaglossa
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. [...]
23 Sep

Dictionaries

23/09/2020    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
François Durand
In this second session about collections, I will talk about dictionaries and their main subclasses: OrderedDict, defaultdict, Counter and ChainMap.