The aim of the Large-scale Initiative Actions Program is to achieve a specific level of scale for a research subject identified by the Institute with a direct link to its strategic plan and the defined milestones. The intention is to achieve the most effective application of the expertise of INRIA in specific fields.
An large-scale initiative action brings together researchers from INRIA project-teams to work on a multidisciplinary initiative. It ensures the coordination and involvement of research teams from different subject focuses, and includes collaboration not only between INRIA teams but also with outside partners, both academic and industrial.
There will only be a small number of large-scale initiative actions, each with a specified duration and with precise objectives and significant resources. The deliverables will be clearly defined in each proposal.
CardioSense3D is the first
Large-scale Initiative Action.
The CardioSense3D action aims at developping a simulator of the cardiac
activity that is suitable for clinical applications in order to understand
better heart diseases, to enhance their prevention and diagnosis and
at last to improve heart disease therapy.
This CardioSense3D action is led by Hervé Delingette (ASCLEPIOS project-team) from INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée research
Centre. This action gathers 4 INRIA teams (in INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée
and INRIA Paris - Rocquencourt research centers) and several associated
academic, industrial and clinical partners such as clinical teams of
the Guy's hospital in London and the NIH in Washington.
COLAGE
its objectives are to address bacteria growth control and variability through the combination of innovative computational tools with quantitative experimental work.
This action leded by Hugues Berry (ALCHEMY project-team ) in Orsay, involved 3 teams of de l'INRIA but also the following partners : experimental cell biology groups from INSERM (Université Paris Descartes) and CNRS (LAPM, Université J. Fourier Grenoble).
FUSION
The aim of this large scale initiative is to federate the efforts of mathematicians and computer scientists who wish to be involved in collaboration with physicists on research projects that have a direct application to ITER.
Leded by Eric Sonnendrücker (CALVI project-team) in Nancy, this action involved 9 teams from INRIA and the following partners: university and CNRS teams from Nice, Toulouse and Paris 6 as well as a team from CEA Cadarache.
REGATE
The Large Scale Initiative Action REGATE lies at the border between Applied Mathematics, Control Theory and Computer Science on one hand, Physiology, Endocrinology and Cellular Biology on the other hand.
Leded by Frédérique Clément (SISYPHE project-team ) in Rocquencourt, this action involved 3 teams from l'INRIA but also the following partners: Jacques-Louis Lions Laboratory (Pierre & Marie Curie University), BIOS (Biology and bioinformatics of signalling systems) and FOD (Follicle, Oocyte and Development) teams (INRA Tours Research Centre) from INRA in Tours and the Theoretical Chronobiology Unit (Brussels Free University).
SOFA-INTERMEDS
Its main objective is to leverage specific competencies available in each team to further develop the multidisciplinary field of Medical Simulation research.
Leded by Stéphane Cotin (ALCOVE project-team) from INRIA Lille - Nord Europe research
Centre, SOFA-INTERMEDS team involves 7 researchers INRIA projects-teams and collaborates with the following clinical institutions: Lille Hospital, Nancy Hospital, IRCAD, and Massachusetts General Hospital.
SYNCHRONICS
This Large-scale Initiative Actions aim to address the main challenges of embedded system design, starting from a single, semantically well founded programming language. The goal is also to define compilation methods for modern architectures (mainly parallel), and such that synchronous languages could be used for programming, and not only for modeling.
Leded by Marc Pouzet (PROVAL project-team ) and Alain Girault (POPART project-team ), this Large-scale Initiative Actions involves severals INRIA projects-teams from Rennes, Grenoble and Saclay.
CardioSense3D