Organizing committee

Organizing committee chair

Daniel Krob

Former student of Ecole Normale Supérieure, Daniel Krob got a Ph.D. (1988) and an Habilitation (1991) in Computer Science from University Paris 7. He is presently Senior Researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), institute professor at Ecole Polytechnique and head of the Thales chair "Engineering of Complex Systems" since its creation in 2003. Daniel Krob worked in algebraic & enumerative combinatorics, algorithms for mobile telecommunications and finite automata & formal languages, before specializing nowadays in systems architecture, systems engineering and systems modeling.

He is the author of more than 90 scientific papers, 4 books and holds 2 patents. Daniel Krob founded and directed the "Laboratoire d’Informatique Algorithmique: Fondements et Applications" ( LIAFA) of University Paris 7 during 6 years. He was also head, during several years, of the steering committees of two major international conferences in combinatorics & theoretical computer science (FPSAC & STACS). Presently Daniel Krob is chairman of the evaluation commitees of the "Information Management & Modelling" departement of the French Aerospace lab (ONERA) and of the "Architecture & Evaluation of Systems of Systems" group of the technical expertise department of the French ministry of defense (DGA). At international level, he is also one of the 15 founding members of the Omega-Alpha honour association in Systems Engineering.

Other members of the organizing committee

Paul Bourgine

Paul Bourgine is director of the National Network of Complex Systems. PhD in Economics (1983), Habilitation in cognitive science (1989). First President of Complex Systems Society. Scientific interest: complex adaptive systems, large interactive networks. Current research fields: genetic networks, neural networks, social networks and social cognition, learning and co-evolutionary dynamics, reconstruction and robustness/resilience of multiscale dynamics. Co-chair of the two first conferences in Economics and Artificial Intelligence (1986,1990), of the first European Conference of Artificial Life (1990), of the first European Conference in Cognitive Economics (2004), Chair of the European Conference on Complex Systems (2005). Thirty PhD supervised, thirty five research grants, eighty articles, one patent, editor of many volumes including: Towards a practice of Autonomous systems, MIT-Press, 1992 with Francisco Varela; Economics and cognitive science, Pergamon Press, 92; Cognitive Economics: an interdisciplinary approach 2004, with Jean-Pierre Nadal; Morphogenèse: l’origine des formes, with Annick Lesne.

Olivier Bournez

Olivier Bournez was born in 1973. He was a student of Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and defended his PhD in Computer Science in 1999 at laboratory LIP of Ecole Normale Supérieure of Lyon. His PhD was awarded by the accessit of Specif PhD thesis award, and by the french chapter of EATCS (AFIT)’s PhD thesis award. He spent one year in laboratory VERIMAG in Grenoble before getting a senior researcher (chargé de recherche) position in INRIA in Nancy. He defended his habilitation in 2006 and got in 2007 the Stanislas academy scientific prize award. He has a professor c.c. position at Ecole Polytechnique since september 2007. His research interest include verification and modeling of systems, computability and complexity for analog and hybrid dynamical systems. Olivier Bournez is the author of more than 50 publications and is member of several scientific and steering committees.

Pascal Foix

Pascal Foix is Engineering and Design Authority Director for Thales Aerospace. His activities encompass Avionics Systems, Flight Management Systems, Mission Systems for Military Aircrafts, Surveillance and Combat Radars, Aircrafts and Naval Electronic Warfare Systems. He is in charge of the System Engineering Transformation project in order to introduce new processes, methods, tools, simulations, etc, as well as developing accordingly people knowledge and skills, to improve the company capability in developing large and complex systems.

Previously, he had Engineering Director positions for Air Traffic Control Systems (China, Australia, many Asian, middle east and African countries) and for Training Simulators (Aircrafts, Helicopters, Land vehicles, Synthetic Environments for a worldwide market).

Omar Hammami

Omar Hammami is a Professor at ENSTA/DGA since 2000. Prior to that he was Assistant Professor from 1991 to 1993 with ENSEEIH, Toulouse, and Associate Professor with the University of Aizu, Japan, from 1993 to 2000. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science and electrical engineering from Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse and has since worked in the field of circuits, system level design methodologies, embedded parallel architectures, and system on chip (SOC) for multimedia and wireless communications. His current interest is in complex systems design and systems engineering. He has been involved in numerous international and national research and industrial projects in those areas, and has been funded by various government and funding agencies. He is a regular reviewer for various journals (IEEE, EURASIP, etc.) and conferences as Program Committee Member.

Leo Liberti

Leo Liberti was born in Milan, Italy, in 1974. He is Maitre de Conferences at LIX, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau. 
 His research interests are Reformulations in Mathematical Programming, Complex Industrial Systems, Combinatorial Optimization, Global Optimization and Bioinformatics. He has 22 refereed international journal papers, 2 refereed national journal papers, 7 refereed book chapters, 32 refereed conference papers, 7 edited/authored books/special issues and 1 patent.

In 2009 he got the 2nd "Robert Faure" prize of the French OR society (ROADEF) and in 1995 the IMA prize for exceptional performance during B.Sc. degree (Imperial College London).

Sylvain Peyronnet

Sylvain Peyronnet was born in 1977. He is currently Maitre de Conferences at LRI, Université Paris-Sud XI. 
 His research interests are approximate verification, probabilistic algorithms, numerical methods and robust and fault-tolerant computing.

Yann Pollet

Yann Pollet is presently Professor, chair of System Integration, at the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (Cnam) in Paris, and delegate director of the CMSL Institute (Center for Advanced System and Software Engineering). From 1992 to 2002, he has been Manager of the Advanced Information Processing Division at Matra Systèmes & Information, a French Company of EADS group. He is an engineer, having got in 1979 a degree from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA, French Grande Ecole). He has also got a master degree "Administration des Entreprises" at IAE (Institut d’Administration des Entreprises, Upper level Company Administration School) in 1980. For his PhD, he chooses to write his thesis on Advanced Data Management Systems for Command Control, Communication and Intelligence Systems. Yann Pollet works from several years in the area of System and Software Engineering, and more particularly on architectural issues and on Knowledge Management for System Engineering. He is an author of more than 50 publications and communications to international conferences. His scientific areas of interest are Systems Analysis & Design, Databases, Fuzzy Logic, Multi-agents Systems, Knowledge Management, and Human Computer Interaction.

Jacques Ariel Sirat

Since 2007, Jacques Ariel Sirat belongs to EADS CTO organization, where he is VP Global Innovation Network for “Systems & Products Architecture & Engineering”. He chairs the EADS Systems Engineering Steering Group, which coordinates all EADS activities in Systems Engineering, including strategy, benchmarking, processes maturity assessment, best practices sharing, training and certification, standardization, R&T, and technical policies. Scope of his activities also includes software engineering, communications, guidance, navigation & control, simulation, and in-service support. In one of his previous positions, he headed the Image & Signal processing Laboratory (LTIS, now within EADS), which developed the image chain of the French intelligence satellites Helios, and of the Scalp-Storm Shadow cruise missile. In 2002, his team received the “Prix Science et Défense” from French MoD for those achievements. He is graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (X80), has got a PhD in Solid State Physics, and a MBA.