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The French Research Group VERSIM

• VERs une théorie de la SIMulation
• "towards a simulation theory"
• http//www.lsis.org/versim

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Organization
National Center of Scientific Research www.cnrs.fr
/STIC/
STIC Department (Sciences and Technologies of
Information and Communication) www.cnrs.fr/STIC/
STIC
I3 Research Group http//sis.univ-tln.fr/gdri3/ (c
reated in 1998)
VERSIM
VERSIM Group http//www.lsis.org/versim (created
in 2004)
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CNRS The French National Center for Scientific
Research

• publicly-funded research organization
• 26,000 employees (among which 11,600 researchers
  and 14,400 engineers and technical and
  administrative staff)
• 1,260 service and research units
• budget for the year 2004 2.214 billion euros
• Vocation
• producing knowledge and making it available to
  society
• definig new domains of scientific investigation
  by developing collaboration between specialists
  from different fields of expertise interactions
  between physics and chemistry of living forms,
  materials, biotechnologies, environment, urban
  matters, health, telecommunications and
  communication.
• 8 scientific departments that cover all fields of
  knowledge
• Nuclear and Particle Physics
• Physical Sciences and Mathematics
• Communication and Information Science and
  Technology STIC
• Engineering Sciences, Chemical Sciences
• Earth Sciences and Astronomy, Life Sciences
• Humanities and Social Sciences.

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I3 Research Group of CNRS

• Information-Interaction-Intelligence
• One of the 5 research groups of the STIC
  department of CNRS whose vocation is to mobilize
  researchers on precise themes
• The objectives of the group consist in
• defining and acquiring expertise on concepts,
  methodologies, technics
• sharing between various communities
• assembling researchers and industrialists around
  projects
• about 900 students, researchers and
  industrialists, from more than 150 research and
  development units of CNRS, INRIA and INSERM

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VERSIM Objectives

• to identify the elements common to future french
  research about Modeling and Simulation and about
  Computer Aided System Theory
• to describe the state of the art in France
• to give the precise situation of MS french
  research within the MS international research
• to participate in projects and form research
  networks
• Fundamentally multidisciplinary group
• Accessible for any researcher from any domain
  that uses or develops problem solution methods
  based on simulation

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Membership

• Leaders
• Pr. Norbert Giambiasi (University of
  Aix-Marseilles, France)
• Pr. David Hill (University of Clermont-Ferrand,
  France)
• 58 registered members
• 19 scientific laboratories and DGA

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Working

• The works are realized
• both on collaboration via internet
• and on the form of meetings
• The reunions use to take place in any site in
  France Marseilles, Montpellier, Toulouse,
  Sophia-Antipolis,
• The mean number of participants of each reunion
  is 25 persons.
• The frequency is about three reunions a year

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Activities / Results

• Cooperating with our colleagues at the University
  of Genova in creating and organizing the
  International Mediterranean Modeling
  Multiconference I3M.
• The first conference was held in Genoa last year.
  
• This years conference will be held in
  Marseilles.
• Cooperating with Pr. Tuncer Oren on the french
  part of the French-English-Turkish MS dictionary
  to be published soon.
• Defining an MS terminological dictionary.
• Working on the development of a French MS course
  as part of our MS curriculum development.
• Working on formal integration and virtual
  laboratories.

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Pieces of expertise
Modeling Methodology
HLA
Metamodeling
Specification Formalisms
Web-Based Simulation
Hybrid MS
VV
Distributed Simulation
Multimodel Simulation
DEVS Formalism
Discrete Event Simulation
Model Driven Architecture
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CompetenciesApplication to sea ecology

• Copepod behavior modeling

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CompetenciesApplication to process engineering
Thermic processes improvment Joint assembly
line Wolkswagen factory (Mexique)
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CompetenciesApplication to moving of mobiles
with caterpillar tracks
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CompetenciesApplication to blast furnace
monitoring and diagnosing
Designing SACHEM as a recursive abstraction
process of discrete events
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CompetenciesMS environments

• free RTI (RunTime Infrastructure) for HLA 1.3
  distributed simulations

VLE Virtual Laboratory Environment for
integrating heterogeneous models
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CompetenciesMS environments

• Object Oriented Ecosystem
• MS environment

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VERSIM member list

• GIAMBIASI Norbert (norbert.giambiasi_at_lsis.org),
  LSIS, Marseille (group leader)
• HILL David (drch_at_isima.fr), LIMOS-ISIMA,
  Clermont-Ferrand (group leader)
• ALEXANDRE Frédéric (falex_at_loria.fr),
  INRIA-Lorraine/LORIA-CNRS, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy
• AMBLARD Frédéric (frederic.amblard_at_univ-tlse1.fr),
  IRIT, Toulouse
• ARIES Franck (Franck.Aries_at_avignon.inra.fr), INRA
  Avignon Unité de Biométrie
• BÉLAUD Jean-Pierre (jeanpierre.belaud_at_ensiacet.fr)
  , LGC, Toulouse
• BELLEMARE Marc-Emmanuel (marc-emmanuel.bellemare_at_u
  niv.u-3mrs.fr), LSIS, Marseille
• BENABOU Bouziane (benboub_at_lsis.org), LSIS,
  Marseille
• BERNARDI Fabrice (bernardi_at_univ-corse.fr), LIMOS,
  Clermont-Ferrand
• BOMMEL Pierre (bommel_at_cirad.fr), CIRAD
• CAMBIER Christophe (Christophe.CAMBIER_at_poleia.lip6
  .fr), LIP6, Paris
• CARDON Alain (Alain.Cardon_at_lip6.fr), LIP6, Paris
• CARMONA Jean Claude (jean-claude.carmona_at_esm2.imt-
  mrs.fr), LSIS, Marseille
• CAUSSANEL Jean (jean.caussanel_at_lsis.org), LSIS,
  Marseille
• CHADEBEC Olivier (chadebec_at_leg.ensieg.inpg.fr),
  LEG/ENSIEG.INPG, Grenoble
• DALLE Olivier (olivier.dalle_at_sophia.inria.fr),
  INRIA/I3S, Sophia Antipolis
• DÉBORDES Olivier (debordes_at_imtumn.imt-mrs.fr),
  CODICIEL, Marseille
• DE GENTILI Emmanuelle (gentili_at_univ-corse.fr),
  Laboratoire SPE, Corte

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VERSIM member list

• LABARTHE Olivier (olivier.labarthe_at_lsis.org),
  LSIS, Marseille
• LE LANN Jean-Marc (JeanMarc.LeLann_at_ensiacet.fr),
  LGC, Toulouse
• LUZEAUX Dominique (dominique.luzeaux_at_dga.defense.g
  ouv.fr), DGA
• MALBURET François (malburet_at_infonie.fr), LSIS,
  Marseille
• MARECHAL Yves (Yves.Marechal_at_leg.ensieg.inpg.fr),
  LEG/ENSIEG/INPG, Grenoble
• MASUREL Gérard (gerard.masurel_at_ctsn.dga.defense.go
  uv.fr), DGA
• MEKAOUCHE Lynda (lynda.mekaouche_at_lsis.org), LSIS,
  Marseille
• MULLER Jean-Pierre (jean-pierre.muller_at_cirad.fr),
  CIRAD et LIRMM, Montpellier
• MUSSI Philippe (Philippe.Mussi_at_sophia.inria.fr),
  INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis
• MUZY Alexandre (a.muzy_at_univ-corse.fr),
  Laboratoire SPE, Corte
• NAAMANE Aziz(aziz.naamane_at_lsis.org), LSIS,
  Marseille
• NEGNY Stéphane (stephane.negny_at_ensiacet.fr), LGC
  ENSIACET, Toulouse
• OUNNAR Fouzia (fouzia.ounnar_at_lsis.org), LSIS,
  Marseille
• PRADEILLES Frédéric (frederic.pradeilles_at_dga.defen
  se.gouv.fr), DGA
• PUJO Patrick(patrick.pujo_at_lsis.org), LSIS,
  Marseille
• RAMAT Eric (ramat_at_lil.univ-littoral.fr), LIL,
  Calais
• RATZÉ Cédric (ratze_at_cirad.fr), CIRAD, Université
  de Neuchâtel
• RICHARD Hervé (Herve.Richard_at_avignon.inra.fr),
  INRA, Avignon
• SANTONI Charles (charles.santoni_at_lsis.org), LSIS,
  Marseille