The new frontier of visual analytics is prescriptive analytics, designed to present and explain recommendations and guide user actions. We will discuss an example of such interface, using the scenario of students mapping their academic plans. We explored the challenge of finding similar students, …

Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback. Lot of improvements at different levels have been performed such as (i) Pharo is now provided in 64-bit version, (ii) a new code changes management system named Epicea …

The summer school ATOM17 is organized by the working group of the GRD RO and ROADEF ATOM (Application and Theory of Multiobjective Optimization/Application et Théorie de l'Optimisation Multi-objectif). The summer school objectives are simple: learn from high level researchers, discuss with …

CRIStAL PhD students will be taking part in the Journée Régionale des Doctorants en Automatique (JRDA 2017) to be held on June 30 at ADITEC in Béthune. The main theme of the day, co-organized by ED SPI-072 and GRAISyHM, will be "Doctor and Entrepreneur". Doctoral students will have the …

Maria GOMEZ, who defended her thesis last year in the Spirals team, and is now a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Saarland in Germany, was awarded an accessit to the GDR GPL 2016 thesis prize.

PharoDays took place in Lille on May 18 and 19, 2017. This annual event organized by the RMoD research team with the contribution of the CRIStAL laboratory and INRIA, brings together people from industry and research, working with the Pharo programming language. The two days are structured around …

Innorobo is an Impact Consulting company, at the crossroads of market needs and emerging technology trends. At Innorobo, you'll meet passionate theorists and practitioners, those who are making the robotic transformation happen. All year round, the company brings together and animates a community …

PharoDays is both a conference and coding session around Pharo technologies. It occurs this year in Lille on 18th and 19th May and is organized by the RMoD team. It gathers academic and industrial to discuss and show the last achievements in the language itself or around the environment. More than …

Overview: A number of modern applications of sequential decision making require developing strategies that are adaptive to the underlying structure of the data (graph, network, etc) and robust to change of the signal. This includes recommender systems incorporating social network information, …

Pierre Bourhis, a research fellow in the Links project-team (jointly run by CNRS, Université de Lille - sciences et technologies and Université de Lille - sciences humaines et sociales*), has been awarded the Best Paper Award for Track B at the ICALP conference to be held in July. The award …