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Associate Professor at Ecole des Mines de Nantes (EMN)
Member of the Ascola research team (EMN-INRIA) and member of the Laboratoire Informatique de Nantes Atlantique (LINA, UMR CNRS 6241)
Head of the apprenticeship program in Software Engineering FIL

Research interests

Open implementation, reflective object-oriented languages, Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE), Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD), software architecture, autonomic computing
Middleware, service-oriented computing, green computing, cloud computing

Publications

Frederico Alvares de Oliveira Jr., Remi Sharrock and Thomas Ledoux. Synchronization of Multiple Autonomic Control Loops: Application to Cloud Computing. In the 14th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (Coordination 2012), Stockholm, Sweden, June 14-15, 2012.

Frederico Alvares de Oliveira Jr., Adrien Lèbre, Thomas Ledoux and Jean-Marc Menaud. Self-management of applications and systems to optimize energy in data centers. In Ivona Brandic, Massimo Villari and Francesco Tusa (Ed.), Achieving Federated and Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures: Theory and Practice, IGI Global , May 2012

Yousri Kouki and Thomas Ledoux. CSLA : a Language for Improving Cloud SLA Management. In the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2012), Porto, Portugal, April 18-21, 2012.

Frederico G. Alvares de Oliveira Jr. and Thomas Ledoux. Self-management of applications QoS for energy optimization in datacenters. In 2nd International Workshop on Green Computing Middleware (GCM 2011), held at the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 12th International Middleware Conference, Lisboa, Portugal, December 12, 2011.

Software

FPath/FScript : navigation and reconfiguration languages for Fractal architectures
WildCAT : a generic framework for context-aware applications

Animation of the community

Organization co-chair of the 4th European Summer School on Aspect-oriented Software Development (Nantes, August 2009)
Tutorial chair ECOOP 2006 (Nantes, July 2006)
PC chair Journées Composants (Le Croisic, April 2005)
PC co-chair workshop "Reflection and Meta-level Architectures" (ECOOP 2000)
PC member : IEEE International Workshop on Methodologies for Non-functional Properties in Services Computing (2008) ; Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM'08, ARM'09, ARM'10, ARM'11) ; International Workshop on Green Computing Middleware (GCM'2010, GCM'11) ; 1st Workshop on Middleware and Architectures for Autonomic and Sustainable Computing (MAASC'11) ; International Conference on Green Computing ICGREEN 2011; International Conference on ICT as Key Technology against Global Warming (ICT- GLOW'11, ICT - GLOW'12), ...
Evaluation committees and expertise: expert for the ANR Technologies Logicielles 2007 call, expert for the ANR Arpege 2010 call
PhD evaluation committees: Victor Budau at INT Evry (19/11/2003), Olivier Barais at LIFL (29/11/2005), Romain Rouvoy at LIFL (08/12/2006), Nagapraveen Jayaprakash at LSR-IMAG (27/06/2008), Franck Chauvel at UBS (19/09/2008), Roméo Said at UBS (23/02/2011), Loris Bouzonnet at LIG-IMAG (16/09/2011)

Collective duties

Member of the board of the Regional Doctoral School STIM since 2008
Member of the administrative committee of the INRIA Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique (2009-2011)
Member of the board of Follow-up committee of the PhDs thesis at LINA (2009-2011)
Member of the board of the LINA laboratory (2004-2007)

PhD Students

Ascola project-team
Department of Computer Science
École des Mines de Nantes
4, rue Alfred Kastler
BP 20722
44307 Nantes Cedex 3-France