Cécile Germain Publications

Last Updated October 2015


Books and Chapters

Glen Cowan, Cecile Germain, Isabelle Guyon, Balazs Kegl, David Rousseau Editors. JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings volume 42: NIPS 2014 Workshop on High-energy Physics and Machine Learning

Cécile Germain-Renaud, Vincent Breton, Patrick Clarysse, B. Delhay, Yann Gaudeau, Tristan Glatard , Emmanuel Jeannot, Yannick Legré, Johan Montagnat, Jean Marie Moureaux,, Angel Osorio, Xavier Pennec, Joël Schaerer, Romain Texier. Handbook of Research on Computational Grid Technologies for Life Sciences, Biomedicine and Healthcare, chapter Grid Analysis of Radiological Data. IGI Press, 2009. Best Chapter award. Abstract

F. Cappello, A. Djilali, G. Fedak, C. Germain, O. Lodygensky et V. Neri. Calcul réparti a grande échelle, chapter XtremWeb : une plateforme de recherche sur le calcul global et pair a pair, pages 153-186. Lavoisier, 2002.

C. Germain et J-P. Sansonnet. Les ordinateurs massivement parallèles. Armand-Colin, 1991. Traduit en Espagnol: Ordenadores Masivamente Parallelos. Paraninfo, 1993.


Journal articles

Claire Adam-Bourdarios, Glen Cowan, Cécile Germain, Isabelle Guyon, Balàzs Kégl, David Rousseau. The Higgs boson machine learning challenge. Journal of Physics: Conference Series vol. 664, 2016

Dawei Feng, Cecile Germain. Fault monitoring with sequential matrix factorization. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 10(3). 2015.

Xiangliang Zhang, Cyril Furtlehner, Cécile Germain, Michèle Sebag, Data Stream Clustering with Affinity Propagation. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) vol. 26, no. 7, pp. 1644-1656,2014

Dawei Feng, Cecile Germain-Renaud and Tristan Glatard. Efficient distributed monitoring with active collaborative prediction Future Generation Computer Systems, 29(8), 2013

Tamas Elteto, Nikolaus Hansen, Cecile Germain-Renaud, Pascal Bondon. Scalable structural break detection. Applied Soft Computing, 12(11), Novembre 2012.[Ref]

Tamas Elteto, Cecile Germain-Renaud, Pascal Bondon, Michele Sebag. Towards non-stationary Grid models. Journal of Grid Computing, 9:4. [Ref]

Julien Perez, Cecile Germain-Renaud, Balazs Kegl, Charles Loomis. Multiobjective reinforcement learning for responsive grids. Journal of Grid Computing 8:3, Sep. 2010. [Ref]

C.Germain-Renaud and O. Rana The Convergence of Clouds, Grids, and Autonomics. GMAC Panel Session Report. IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 13, no. 6. [Ref] Full report in IEEE Computing Now October 2009

David-Alexandre Trégouët, Inke R König, Jeanette Erdmann, Alexandru Munteanu, Peter S Braund, Alistair S Hall, Anika Grohennig, Patrick Linsel- Nitschke, Claire Perret, Maylis DeSuremain, Thomas Meitinger, Ben J Wright, Michael Preuss, Anthony J Balmforth, Stephen G Ball, Christa Meisinger, Cécile Germain, Alun Evans, Dominique Arveiler, Gérald Luc, Jean-Bernard Ruidavets, Caroline Morrison, Pim van der Harst, Stefan Schreiber, Katharina Neureuther, Arne Schäfer, Peter Bugert, Nour E El Mokhtari, Jürgen Schrezenmeir, Klaus Stark, Diana Rubin, H-Erich Wichmann, Christian Hengstenberg, Willem Ouwehand, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Cardiogenics Consortium, Andreas Ziegler, Laurence Tiret, John R Thompson, Francois Cambien, Heribert Schunkert, Nilesh J Samani A genome-wide haplotype association study identifies the slc22a3-lpal2-lpa gene cluster as a strong susceptibility locus for coronary artery disease. Nature Genetics, 41:3, 2009 Abstract

Cécile Germain-Renaud, Charles Loomis, Jakub T. Moscicki, Romain Texier. Scheduling for Responsive Grids. The journal of Grid Computing 6 :15-27, 2008.

C. Germain, V. Breton, P. Clarysse, Y. Gaudeau, T. Glatard, E. Jeannot, Y. Legré, C. Loomis, J. Montagnat, J-M Moureaux, A. Osorio, X. Pennec et R. Texier. Grid-enabling medical image analysis. Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing, 19(4-5), 339-349, 2005. [Ref]

C. Germain, R. Texier and A. Osorio. Interactive Volume Reconstruction and Measurement on the Grid. Methods of Information in Medecine, 44(2) 227-232, 2005. preprint

A.Selikhov and C.Germain. A channel memory based environment for MPI applications. Future Generation Computing Systems, 21(5):709-715, 2004. preprint-[Ref]

Auger Collaboration. Properties and performance of the prototype instrument for the Pierre Auger Observatory. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, volume 523, issue 1-2, year 2004, pp. 50 - 95 preprint

T. Brandes and C. Germain. A schedule cache for data-parallel unstructured computations. Parallel Computing, 26(13):1807-1823, 2000. final-[Ref]

C. Germain and V. Néri. Java-based coupling for data parallel predictive-adaptive domain decomposition. Scientific Programming, 7(2):185-189, 99. final

F. Cappello and C. Germain. The static network : A high performance reconfigurable communication network. Parallel Processing Letters, 5(1):97-109, 1995. final

D. Gautier de Lahaut and C. Germain. A static approach for compiling communications in parallel scientific programs. Scientific Programming, 4, 1995. final

C. Germain, F. Delaplace and R. Carlier. A static execution model for data-parallelism. Parallel Processing Letters, 4(4):367-378, 1994. final

C. Germain, J. Béchennec, D. Etiemble et J. Sansonnet. A communication architecture for a massively message-passing multicomputer. Jal. Parallel and Distibuted Computing, 19:338-348, 93 final


Conference articles

Claire Adam-Bourdarios, Glen Cowan, Cécile Germain, Isabelle Guyon, Balàzs Kégl, David Rousseau. The Higgs boson machine learning challenge. JMLR: Workshop and Conference Proceedings 42:19-55, proceedings of the HEPML14 workshop, 2015.

Karima Rafes, Julien Nauroy, Cécile Germain. Certifying the interoperability of RDF database systems. LDQ2015 - 2nd Workshop on Linked Data Quality, Jun 2015, Portoroz, Slovenia.

Karima Rafes, Julien Nauroy, Cécile Germain. TFT, Tests For Triplestores. Semantic Web Challenge, part of the International Semantic Web Conference, Oct 2014, Riva Del Garda, Italy. .

Dawei Feng, Cecile Germain, Julien Nauroy. Sequential fault monitoring. Cloud and Autonomic Computing conference, Sep 2014, London, United Kingdom. IEEE

Claire Adam-Bourdarios, Glen Cowan, Cecile Germain, Isabelle Guyon, Balazs Kegl, David Rousseau. The ATLAS Higgs Boson Machine Learning Challenge. International Conference on High Energy Physics(ICHEP) Conference, Jul 2014, Valencia, Spain. Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements (A paraître).

Cecile Germain-Renaud, Frederic Fu¿rst, Thibaut Jacob, Michel Jouvin, Gilles Kassel, Julien Nauroy, Guillaume Philippon. The Green Computing Observatory: a data curation approach for green IT Selected papers from EGI Community Forum 2012, published by Proceedings of Science.

Dawei Feng, Cecile Germain-Renaud and Tristan Glatard. Distributed Monitoring with Collaborative Prediction. In 12th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid'12) 2012.[Ref]

C. Germain-Renaud, F. Furst, M. Jouvin, G. Kassel, J. Nauroy, G. Philippon. The Green Computing Observatory: a data curation approach for green IT. 9th IEEE Int. Conf. on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing , pp 798-799, IEEE CS Press, 2011.[Ref]

Yusik Kim, Cecile Germain-Renaud. Characterizing e-science file access behavior via latent Dirichlet allocation . 4th IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. on Utility and Cloud Computing, pp 162-169, 2011. [Ref]

J. Perez, C. Germain-Renaud, B. Kégl. Non-Markovian Reinforcement Learning for Reactive Grid scheduling. In Conférence Francophone sur l'Apprentissage Automatique. (2011).

Cécile Germain-Renaud, Alain Cady, Philippe Gauron, Michel Jouvin, Charles Loomis, Janusz Martyniak, Julien Nauroy,Michèle Sebag. The Grid Observatory. In CCGRID 2011. [Ref]

Xiangliang Zhang, Cécile Germain-Renaud and Michèle Sebag. Adaptively Detecting Changes in Autonomic Grid Computing. Workshop on Autonomic Computational Science (ACS)  in conjunction with 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid'2010), Brussels, Belgium, October 25-29, 2010.

T. Elteto, C. Germain-Renaud, P. Bondon, M. Sebag. Discovering Piecewise Linear Models of Grid Workload. In CCGrid 2010. [Ref]

J. Perez, C.Germain-Renaud, B. Kegl, C. Loomis. Responsive Elastic Computing. In Workshop Grids Meet Autonomic Computing (GMAC), associated with the 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC2009), ACM Press. [Ref]

Xiangliang Zhang, Cyril Furtlehner, Julien Perez, Cecile Germain-Renaud, Michele Sebag. Toward Autonomic Grids: Analyzing the Job Flow with Affinity Streaming. In Proceedings of 15th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD'2009), 2009. [Ref]

Xiangliang Zhang, Michèle Sebag, and Cécile Germain-Renaud. Multi-scale realtime grid monitoring with job stream mining. In 9th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'09) 2009, pp 420-427.[Ref]

J. Perez, C.Germain-Renaud, B. Kegl, C. Loomis. Utility-based Reinforcement Learning for Reactive Grid. In 5 th IEEE Conf. Autonomic Computing (ICAC-08). Short paper. Chicago, June 2008.[Ref]

C.Germain-Renaud, J. Perez, B. Kegl, C. Loomis Grid Differentiated Services: a Reinforcement Learning Approach. In 8th IEEE Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid. Lyon, May 2008.[Ref]

J. Perez, B. Kegl, C. Germain-Renaud. Reinforcement learning for utility-based scheduling. NIPS Workshop on Statistical Learning Techniques for Solving Systems Problems Whistler Canada, Dec. 2007

X. Zhang, M. Sebag, C. Germain-Renaud. Modelling the jobs of a Grid System. In 16ème congrès francophone AFRIF-AFIA Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle (RFIA2008), Amiens, France, Jan 23-25, 2008 (in French).

X. Zhang, M. Sebag, C. Germain-Renaud. Toward Behavioral Modeling of a Grid System: Mining the Logging and Bookkeeping files. In IEEE ICDM 2007 workshop - DSMM 07 , Omaha, Nebraska, USA, pp. 581-586, Oct 28-31, 2007 [PDF © 2007 IEEE ].

X. Zhang, M. Sebag, C. Germain-Renaud. Weakly Supervised Clustering: Hydridizing Constructive Induction and Double Clustering. In I One-Day Statistical Workshop, Lisieux, Normandy, France, June 29, 2007 (Poster).

C. Germain, V. Breton, P. Clarysse, Y. Gaudeau, T. Glatard, E. Jeannot, Y. Legré, C. Loomis, J. Montagnat, J-M Moureaux, A. Osorio, X. Pennec and R. Texier. Grid-enabling medical image analysis. In Procs. 3rd BioGrid'05,Cardiff, Mai 2005. IEEE Press. preprint

C. Germain and D. Monnier-Ragaigne. Grid Result Chechking. In Procs. 2nd Computing Frontiers, Ischia, Mai 2005. ACM Press. preprint

C. Germain, R. Texier and A. Osorio. Interactive Exploration of Medical Images on the Grid. In Procs. 2nd european HealthGrid Conference, Clermont-Ferrand, Jan. 2004.

A. Selikhov and C. Germain. CMDE: a Channel Memory based Dynamic Environment for Message Passing based on MPICH-V Architecture. In Procs. Parallel Computing Technologies Conf.(PaCT), LNCS 2763, pages 528-537, Novosibirsk, Sept. 2003. Springer-Verlag. final

C. Germain, A. Osorio and R. Texier. A Case Study in Medical Imaging and the Grid. In S. Norager, editor, Procs. 1st European HealthGrid Conference, pages 110-118, Lyon, Jan. 2003. EC-IST. preprint

C. Germain and N. Playez. Result-Checking in Global Computing Systems. In Procs.17h ACM Int.Conf. on Supercomputing, pages 226-233, San Francisco, June 2003. ACM Press. preprint - final

A. Selikhov, G. Bosilca, C. Germain, G. Fedak and F. Cappello. MPICH-CM: a Communication Library Design for a P2P MPI Implementation. In 9th Euro PVM/MPI Conf., LNCS 2474, pages 323-330, Vienna, Oct. 2002. Springer-Verlag. preprint - final

G. Bosilca, A. Bouteiller, F. Cappello, S. Djilali, G. Fedak, C. Germain, T. Hérault, P. Lemarinier, O. Lodygensky, F. Magniette, V. Neri and A. Selikhov. MPICH-V : Toward a Scalable Fault Tolerant MPI for Volatile Nodes. In IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. for High Performance Computing and Communications 2002 (SC'02 - SuperComputing'02), Baltimore, 2002. preprint - final

G. Fedak, C. Germain, V. Neri and F. Cappello. XtremWeb: A generic global computing platform. In IEEE/ACM CCGRID'2001, pages 582-587, IEEE Press, 2001. final

C. Germain, G. Fedak, V. Neri and F. Cappello. Global Computing Systems. In 3rd Int. Conf. on Large Scale Scientific Computations, LNCS 2179, pages 218-227, Sozopol, 2001. Springer-Verlag. preprint - final

C. Germain, V. Néri, G. Fedak and F. Cappello. Xtremweb : Building an experimental platform for global computing. In Proc. 1st IEEE/ACM Intl. Workshop Grid 2000. Springer, 2000. preprint - final

T. Brandes and C. Germain. A tracing protocol for optimizing data parallel irregular communications. In EUROPAR'98, LNCS 1470, pages 629-638. Springer, 98. preprint - final

C. Germain and D. G. de Lahaut. Improving irregular parallel communication through sorting. In HPCN'97, LNCS 1225, pages 820-829. Springer, 97. final

C. Germain and F. Delaplace. Compiling the block-cyclic distribution. In PARCO'97. Elsevier, 97. preprint - final

C. Germain, J.Laminie, M. Pallud and D. andiemble. An HPF case study of a domain-decomposition based irregular application. In PaCT'97. LNCS 1277, pages 201-209, 97. preprint - final

F.Coelho, C. Germain and J.-L. Pazat. Compiling HPF. In G.R. Perrin, editor, The Data Parallel Programming Model, LNCS 1132, pages 104-130. Springer Verlag, 1996. - final - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61736-1_45

F. Cappello and C. Germain. Toward high communication performance through compiled communications on a circuit switched interconnection network. In 1st IEEE Symp. on High Performance Computer Architecture, pages 44-53. IEEE, 1995. - final

D. Etiemble and C. Germain. Standard microprocessors versus custom processing elements for massively parallel architectures. In PaCT95, LNCS 964, pages 320-324. Springer Verlag, 1995. final - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60222-4_122

C. Germain and F. Delaplace. Automatic vectorization of communications for data-parallel programs. In Europar95, LNCS 966, pages 429-440. Springer Verlag, 1995. - final

D. Gautier de Lahaut and C. Germain. Static communications in parallel scientific programs. In Parle94, LNCS 817, pages 262-276. Springer Verlag, 1994. - final

F. Cappello, J. Béchennec, D. Delaplace, C. Germain, J. Giavitto, V. Neri, and D. Etiemble. A parallel architecture based on compiled communication schemes. In ParCo93, pages 371-378. Elsevier, 1993.

F. Delaplace and C. Germain. Test d'identification des communications statiques. In RenPar 5, Brest, France, 1993.

F. Cappello, J. Béchennec, F. Delaplace, C. Germain, J. Giavitto, V. Neri, and D. Etiemble. Balanced distributed memory parallel computers. In Int. Conf. on Parallel Processing 93, pages 72-76. CRC Press, 1993.

F. Cappello, F. Delaplace and C. Germain. Static communications for efficient massive parallelism. In 3rd Int. Workshop on Interconnection Networks, 1993.

J. Béchennec, C. Germain and V. Neri. An efficient hardwired router for a trimensionnal mesh interconnection network. In CompEuro91, Bologne, Italie, 1991.

J. Giavitto, C. Germain and J. Fowler. OAL: an implementation of an actor language on a massively parallel message-passing architecture. In 2nd European Distributed Memory Computing Conf., Munich, Allemagne, 1991. - final

C. Germain, J. Béchennec, D. Etiemble et J-P. Sansonnet. An interconnection network and a routing scheme for a massively parallel message passing multicomputer. In 3rd Symp. on Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, College Park, MD, 1990.


Miscellaneous

Julien Perez, Cécile Germain-Renaud, Balázs Kégl and Charles Loomis. Toward Responsive Grids through Multi Objective Reinforcement Learning. In 4 th EGEE User Forum, Catania, Italy. 2009.

Xiangliang Zhang, Michèle Sebag and Cécile Germain-Renaud Grid Monitoring by Online Clustering. In 4 th EGEE User Forum, Catania, Italy. 2009.

X. Zhang, C. Germain-Renaud, M. Sebag, C. Loomis Fault Detection and Diagnosis from the Logging and Bookkeping Data. In Second Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) User Forum, Manchester, UK, May 9-11, 2007.

J. Perez, B. Kégl , C. Germain-Renaud (LRI). Predicting Bounds on Queuing Delay in the EGEE grid. In Second Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) User Forum, Manchester, UK, May 9-11, 2007

C. Germain and M. Lamanna Responsive grids chapter in the austrian e-IRG white paper - 2006 pdf

D. Berry, C. Germain-Renaud, D. Hill, S. Pieper and J. Saltz.
Report on the Workshop IMAGE'03: Images, medical analysis and grid environments.
TR UKeS-2004-02, UK National e-Science Centre, , Feb. 2004.

A. Osorio, S. Merran, C. Germain, J. Atif, X. Ripoche, A. Tarault and R. Texier.
Segmentation 3D d'images radiologiques : application à la reconstruction et mesure du volume d'organes et de lésions.
Journal de Radiologie, 84(10), 2003. (Recueil de résumés)
Journées Françaises de Radiologie.

C. Germain and V. Neri. Java-based Coupling for Parallel Predictive-Adaptive Domain Decomposition. First UK Workshop Java for high performnace network computing. Edinburgh 1998.

C. Germain, J. Laminie and M. Pallud. Parallelizing an Electromagnetic Simulation in HPF. First HPF User Group Meeting. Santa Fe 1997.


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