Associate Professor, Nancy-Université "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR 2007)" Head of SCORE team, LORIA, Campus Scientifique, 54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, Cedex. (+33) 383 59 30 77 (Office) (+33) 383 41 30 79 (Fax)

Plan (hide) 1.  Bio 2.  Professional Activities 2.1  Thesis and Master 2.2  Contracts and Scientific projects 2.3  Program Committee and Reviewing 3.  Software 4.  Feeds and Readings

§1.  Bio

Dr. Pascal Molli graduated from Nancy University (France) and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Nancy University in 1996. Since 1997, he is Associate Professor at University of Nancy. He participated in the creation of the INRIA ECOO (Environments for Cooperation) project in 1998 and he was vice-head of the INRIA ECOO Team. From October 2009 to current, He is head of the INRIA SCORE team.

Dr. Molli has mainly worked on collaborative distributed systems and focused on problems of consistency of shared data in collaborative environments and awareness models for collaborative editing. He participated to several research projects such as Libresource, Xwiki-concerto and Qualipso.

His research topic is mainly Computer Supported Cooperative Work, P2P and distributed systems and collaborative knowledge building. His current research topcs are :

• Algorithms for distributed collaborative systems : consistency criteria for collaborative systems and algorithms to enforce consistency
  • Logoot : a Scalable Optimistic Replication Algorithm for Collaborative Editing on P2P Networks. Stéphane Weiss, Pascal Urso and Pascal Molli . In ICDCS , Montreal, Quebec, Canada , June 2009.
  • Data Consistency for P2P Collaborative Editing. Gérald Oster, Pascal Urso, Pascal Molli and Abdessamad Imine. In Proceedings of the 2006 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2006, Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 4-8, 2006, 2006.
  • Tombstone Transformation Functions for Ensuring Consistency in Collaborative Editing Systems. Gérald Oster, Pascal Urso, Pascal Molli and Abdessamad Imine. In The Second International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2006), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, November 2006.
  • Formal design and verification of operational transformation algorithms for copies convergence.. Abdessamad Imine, Michaël Rusinowitch, Gérald Oster and Pascal Molli. Theoretical Computer Science, 351(2):167-183, 2006.
  • Using the Transformational Approach to Build a Safe and Generic Data Synchronizer. Pascal Molli, Gérald Oster, Hala Skaf-Molli and Abdessamad Imine . In Proceedings of the ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work - GROUP 2003 , pages 212-220 , Sanibel Island, Florida, USA , November 2003.
• Distributed collaborative systems, privacy and security
  • DooSo6: Easy collaboration over shared projects. Claudia-Lavinia Ignat, Gérald Oster and Pascal Molli . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering - CDVE 2009 , page , Luxembourg, Luxembourg, September 2009.
  • UniWiki: A Reliable and Scalable Peer-to-Peer System for Distributing Wiki Applications (Submitted). Gérald Oster, Pascal Molli, Sergiu Dumitriu and Ruben Mondejar. In Collaborative Peer-to-Peer Systems (COPS'09), page 21, groningen, Netherlands, June 2009.
  • Wooki: a P2P Wiki-based Collaborative Writing Tool. Stéphane Weiss, Pascal Urso and Pascal Molli . In Web Information Systems Engineering , Nancy, France , December 2007.
• Collaborative distributed systems for the Semantic Web. How to allow people and computers to edit concurrently the web and the semantic web?
  • Multi-synchronous Collaborative Semantic Wikis. Charbel Rahhal, Hala Skaf-Molli, Pascal Molli and Stéphane Weiss . In Wise'09: International Conference on Web Information Systems , 2009.
  • Supporting Personal Semantic Annotations in P2P Semantic Wikis. Diego Toress, Hala Skaf-Molli, Alicia Diaz and Pascal Molli . In DEXA'09: 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, Linz, Austria, August 2009.
  • Undo in Peer-to-peer Semantic Wikis. Charbel Rahhal, Stéphane Weiss, and Hala Skaf-Molli, Pascal Urso and Pascal Molli. In SemWiki 2009 - 4rd Semantic Wiki Workshop, page 18 , Heraklion, Greece, May 2009.
  • WIKITAAABLE: A semantic wiki as a blackboard for a textual case-based reasoning system. Amélie Cordier, Jean Lieber, Pascal Molli, Emmanuel Nauer, Hala Skaf-Molli and Yannick Toussaint. In SemWiki 2009 - 4rd Semantic Wiki Workshop, page 18 , Heraklion, Greece, May 2009.

§2.  Professional Activities

• 1997-Present : Associate Professor at Nancy-Université
• Head of SCORE Team (Service and Cooperation)
• Vice-head of INRIA project ECOO until 1 October 2009
• Researcher Scientist at INRIA (2001-2002);
• LORIA Medal 2005 for Libresource

§2.1  Thesis and Master

Ongoing Thesis

1. started in september 2006 Charbel Rahhal, Co-advisor: Hala Skaf-Molli,
2. started in October 2006 Stéphane Weiss, Co-advisor: Pascal Urso,
3. started in January 2008 Sergiu Dumitriu, Co-advisor: Gérald Oster, .
4. start before end of 2009 Khaled Mobayed
5. start before end of 2009 Hien Truong Thi Thu, Co-advisor Claudia Ignat

Past Thesis

1. Director : Concurrence et Conscience de Groupe dans l'Édition Collaborative sur Réseaux Pair-à-Pair.. Sawsan Alshattnawi. PhD thesis, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy1, November 2008. (Jury: Laurence Nigay, Bruno Defude, Frédéric Alexandre, Eric Lecolinet, Pascal Molli, Gérôme Canals). (URL)
2. Co-Director : Réplication optimiste et cohérence des données dans les environnements collaboratifs répartis. Gérald Oster. PhD thesis, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy1, November 2005. (Jury: Jean Ferrié, Marc Shapiro, Jens Gustedt, Claude Godart ,Pascal Molli). (URL)
3. Co-Examiner : Consistency Maintenance of Hierarchical Documents. Claudia Ignat. PhD thesis, ETH, Zurich, July 2006.

Jury member

1. Support informatique à des communications de groupe. Emmanuel Nars. PhD thesis, Université d'Orsay, Septembre 2007. (Jury: M. Khaldoun Al Agha: Président,Michel Beaudouin-Lafon: Directeur de thèse,Alain Derycke: Rapporteur,Pascal Molli: Examinateur,Michel Riveill: Rapporteur,Nicolas Roussel: Encadrant).
2. Conception Formelle d'Algorithmes de Réplication Optimiste. Vers l'Edition Collaborative dans les Réseaux Pair-à-Pair. Abdessamad Imine. PhD thesis, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy 1, December 2006. (Jury: Michaël Rusinowitch, Jean Ferrié, Jean-François Monin, Dominique Mery, Pascal Molli, Jacques Julliand).
3. Intergiciel extensible à base de composants adaptables pour l'informatique mobile: Réplication optimiste et réconciliation. Lydialle Chategnier. PhD thesis, Université d'Evry-Val d'Essonne, July 2006. (Jury: Jean Ferrié, Claudia Roncancio, Christophe Lorian, Pascal Molli, Guy Bernand, Sophie Chabridon).
4. Gestion de transactions en environnement mobile. Christophe Bobineau. PhD thesis, Université de Versailles, December 2002. (Philippe Pucheral, Christine Collet, Jean Ferrié, Pascal Molli, Pascal Urien, Patrick Valduriez).
5. Convergence des Copies dans les Environnements Collaboratifs Répartis. Nicolas Vidot. PhD thesis, Université de Montpellier, September 2002. (Jury: Jean Ferrié, Rachid Guerraoui, Michelle Cart, Alain Jean Marie, Pascal Molli, Marc Shapiro, Philippe Pucheral).

Master 2 Research

1. 2005-2006 Stéphane Weiss . Annulation de groupe dans les éditeurs collaboratifs.
2. 2004-2005 Xin Chen . Réplication optimiste de données XML dans un environnement collaboratif répartis.
3. 2001-2002 Sébastien Jourdain . SAMS : Environnements coopératifs Synchrones, Asynchrone, Multi-Synchrone pour les équipes virtuelle.
4. 2000-2001 Gérald Oster . Visualisation de la divergence dans les équipes virtuelles.
5. 1996-1997 Abdelmajid Bouazza . Modélisation d’espaces de travail.

§2.2  Contracts and Scientific projects

Ingoing project

1. 2009-2011 XWiki 3.0 - Appel Web innovant
2. 2009-2010 Cywiki projet -
3. 2009-2010 action TALC - "Vers un wiki sémantique pour la gestion des connaissances d’un système de raisonnement à partir de cas"..
4. 2009-2010 Coclico (Pole de compétitivité) - Forge Federations.
5. 2006-2010 European IST IP Qualipso (Quality Platform for Open Source Software) - Next Generation Forges

Finished projects

1. 2008-2009 International Scientific Cooperation Program (France-Argentina) - SeCyT (2008-2009) - Collaborative Systems and Semantic Web. Partner University La Plata, Argentina (Alicia Diaz )
2. 2006-2009 RNTL XWiki-Concerto (2006-2009) with XPernet, ENST, Mandriva and ObjectWeb. Development of a P2P Wiki system.
3. 2005-2007 Member of Project Rorax, french/libanese program Cedre
4. 2005-2007 Leader of ARC INRIA Recall, http://recall.loria.fr. Recall is funding the development of Wooki.
5. 2002-2005 RNTL PureSource (LibreSource) with Artenum and l'University Paris 7. Development of a platform for collaborative development
6. 2004-2005 Leader of action Mobi5, CPER QSL. Mobi5 has funded the development of So6.
7. 2001-2004 RIAMM COOPERA with Jeriko, LPI University Nancy 2 and ORME. Cooperative work for kids.
8. 2003-2004 Member of Gdr-PRC I3 (pucheral03a),(pucheral03b)
9. 2001-2003 Leader of action VXP, CPER QSL. VXP has funded the development of SAMS;
10. 2001-2002 3G Booster Web service for managing Rendez Vous on Internet (2001-2002),
11. 1998-2001 COCAO with France Telecom R&D and CRAI.
12. 2000-2001 Australian Research Council IREX Grant with University of New South Wales, Sydney

§2.3  Program Committee and Reviewing

2010

• Collaborative Peer-to-Peer Systems (COPS). , Larissa, Greece, June 2010. (http://wetice.org, co-located with WETICE 2010).
• ICEIS 2010 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Volume DISI, Funchal, Madeira, June 8-12, 2010. José Cordeiro and Joaquim Filipe, editor. , 2010. (http://www.iceis.org/).
• LMO 2010 - Langages et Modèles à Objets. , Pau, France, March 2010. (http://lmo-conference.org/2010/index).
• SemWiki 2010 - 5rd Semantic Wiki Workshop - Linking Data and People. , Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, May 2010. (http://www.eswc2010.org/program-menu/workshops, co-located with the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC10)).

2009

• The 5th International Conference On Signal-Image Technology and Internet-Based Systems (SITIS'2008). , Marrakech - Morocco, November 2009. (http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/SITIS/09/).
• BDA 2009 - 25ème journées Bases de Données Avancées. , Namur, Belgique, October 2009. (http://info.fundp.ac.be/bda2009/).
• SemWiki 2009 - 4rd Semantic Wiki Workshop. , Heraklion, Greece, May 2009. (http://www.eswc2009.org/program-menu/workshops, co-located with the 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)).
• Collaborative Peer-to-Peer Systems (COPS). , groningen, Netherlands, June 2009. (http://tbk15.fwn.rug.nl/wetice2009/workshops.php, co-located with WETICE 2009).
• ICEIS 2009 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Volume DISI, Milan, Italy, May 6-10, 2009. José Cordeiro and Joaquim Filipe, editor. , 2009.

2008

• ICEIS 2008 - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Volume DISI, Barcelona, Spain, June 12-16, 2008. José Cordeiro and Joaquim Filipe, editor. , 2008.
• The Fourth International Conference On Signal-Image Technology and Internet-Based Systems (SITIS'2008). , Bali - Indonesia, October 2008. (http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/SITIS/08/).
• Mexican International Conference On Computer Science (ENC'08). , Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, October 2008. (http://enc.smcc.org.mx/index.html).
• Decentralized Self Management For Grids, P2p, And User Communities. , Isola di San Servolo (Venice), Italy, October 2008. (http://www.ist-selfman.org/wiki/index.php/SelfmanWorkshop, co-located with SASO 2008).
• Collaborative Peer-to-Peer Systems (COPS). , Rome, Italy, June 2008. (http://ast-deim.urv.cat/wiki/COPS, co-located with WETICE 2008).
• 3rd International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies : from Theory to Applications. , Damas, Syria, April 2008. (http://conferences.enst-bretagne.fr/ictta/).
• SemWiki 2008 - The Wiki Way of Semantics. 3rd Semantic Wiki Workshop. , Tenerife, Spain, June 2008. (http://semwiki.org/semwiki2008, co-located with the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)).

2007

• ICEIS 2007 - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, June 12-16, 2007. Jorge Cardoso and José Cordeiro and Joaquim Filipe, editor. , 2007.
• 9th International Workshop on Collaborative Editing Systems. , Sanibel Island, USA, November 2007. (URL)

2006 and before...

• Scientific Engineering of Distributed Java Applications, Third International Workshop, FIDJI 2003, Luxenbourg-Kirchberg, Luxenbourg, November 27-28, 2003, Revised Papers. Nicolas Guelfi and Egidio Astesiano and Gianna Reggio, editor. volume 2952 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2004.
• Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems. , Porto, Portugal, Avril 2004.
• Scientific Engineering for Distributed Java Applications, International Workshop, FIDJI 2002, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg, November 28-29, 2002, Revised Papers. Nicolas Guelfi and Egidio Astesiano and Gianna Reggio, editor. volume 2604 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2003.
• Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems. , Angers, FRANCE, Avril 2003.

Reviewing

• CSCW
• ECSCW
• GROUP
• CollaborateCom
• HICSS
• IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems
• IEEE Transaction on Computers
• Computer Networks (Elsevier)

§3.  Software

• DSMW, Distributed Semantic Media Wiki, Released in LGPL (October 2009)
  • Multi-synchronous Collaborative Semantic Wikis. Charbel Rahhal, Hala Skaf-Molli, Pascal Molli and Stéphane Weiss . In Wise'09: International Conference on Web Information Systems , 2009. ,
  • Logoot : a Scalable Optimistic Replication Algorithm for Collaborative Editing on P2P Networks. Stéphane Weiss, Pascal Urso and Pascal Molli . In ICDCS , Montreal, Quebec, Canada , June 2009. ,
• Uniwiki, Wiki on reliable DHT, Release in LGPL (Nov 2008)
  • UniWiki: A Reliable and Scalable Peer-to-Peer System for Distributing Wiki Applications (Submitted). Gérald Oster, Pascal Molli, Sergiu Dumitriu and Ruben Mondejar. In Collaborative Peer-to-Peer Systems (COPS'09), page 21, groningen, Netherlands, June 2009. ]
• Xwiki-Concerto, A P2P wiki integrated with the XWIKI product (result of the ).
  • P2P logging and timestamping for reconciliation. Mounir Tlili, W. Kokou Dedzoe, Esther Pacitti, Patrick Valduriez, Reza Akbarinia, Pascal Molli, Gérôme Canals and Stéphane Laurière. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 1(2):1420-1423, 2008.
  • XWiki Concerto: A P2P Wiki System Supporting Disconnected Work. Gérôme Canals, Pascal Molli, Julien Maire, Stéphane Laurière, Esther Pacitti and Mounir Tlili . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering - CDVE 2008, pages 98-106 , 2008. (URL)
• Wooki, a P2P wiki system, Released in GPL (March 2007)
  • Wooki: a P2P Wiki-based Collaborative Writing Tool. Stéphane Weiss, Pascal Urso and Pascal Molli . In Web Information Systems Engineering , Nancy, France , December 2007. ,
  • Data Consistency for P2P Collaborative Editing. Gérald Oster, Pascal Urso, Pascal Molli and Abdessamad Imine. In Proceedings of the 2006 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2006, Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 4-8, 2006, 2006.
• Graveyard, a real time editor based on SOCT2, TTF and Compensation Undo approach, Released in GPL (May 2007)
  • Tombstone Transformation Functions for Ensuring Consistency in Collaborative Editing Systems. Gérald Oster, Pascal Urso, Pascal Molli and Abdessamad Imine. In The Second International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2006), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, November 2006. ,
  • Compensation in Collaborative Editing. Stéphane Weiss, Pascal Urso and Pascal Molli. Rapport de recherche INRIA RR-6160, INRIA, May 2007. (URL)
• jXyDiff (Released in March 2006 in QPL)
• Libresource (Released in 2005 in QPL) ,
  • LibreSource : Web Based Platform for Supporting Collaborative Activities. Hala Skaf-Molli, Pascal Molli, Olivera Marjanovic and Claude Godart. In 2nd IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies: from Theory to Applications, Umayyad Palace, Damascus, Syria, April 2006.
• So6 (Released in 2005 in QPL) ,
  • Using the Transformational Approach to Build a Safe and Generic Data Synchronizer. Pascal Molli, Gérald Oster, Hala Skaf-Molli and Abdessamad Imine . In Proceedings of the ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work - GROUP 2003 , pages 212-220 , Sanibel Island, Florida, USA , November 2003.
  • Supporting Collaborative Writing of XML Documents. Gérald Oster, Hala Skaf-Molli, Pascal Molli and Hala Naja-Jazzar . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - ICEIS 2007 , Funchal, Madeira, Portugal , jun 2007.
• SAMS (2002) ,
  • SAMS: Synchronous, Asynchronous, Multi-Synchronous Environments. Pascal Molli, Hala Skaf-Molli, Gérald Oster and Sébastien Jourdain. In The Seventh International Conference on CSCW in Design, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 2002.
• Toxic (2002),
  • Services for Virtual Teams Hosting: ToxicFarm Introduction. François Charoy, Claude Godart, Pascal Molli , Gérald Oster, Marc Patten and Miguel Valdes. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Cooperative Internet Computing, Hong Kong, China. ACM Hong Kong, August 2002. ,
  • Toxic Farm: A Cooperative Management Platform For Virtual Teams And Enterprises. Hala Skaf-Molli, Pascal Molli, Gérald Oster , Claude Godart, Pradeep Ray and Fethi Rabhi. In 5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2003) , Angers, France, April 2003. ,
  • The ToxicFarm Integrated Cooperation Framework for Virtual Teams. Claude Godart, Pascal Molli, Gérald Oster, Olivier Perrin, Hala Skaf-Molli, Pradeep Ray and Fethi Rabhi. Distributed and Parallel Databases, 14, January 2004.
• jLibDiff (Released in 1998 in LGPL)
• Motu (1996-98),
  • TuaMotu: Support for Telecooperative Engineering Applications using Replicated Versions. Gérôme Canals, Pascal Molli and Claude Godart. In IGROUP Workshop, Seattle, Oulu, Finland, 1998.
• P-ROOT&COO (1993-96),
  • P-RooT and COO : Extending the PCTE OMS with New Capabilities. Gérôme Canals, François Charoy, Claude Godart and Pascal Molli. In Proceedings ICSE'94 Workshop on the Intersection between Databases and Software Engineering, Sorrento, Italy, 1994. ,
  • Designing and Implementing COO: Design Process, Architectural Style, Lessons learned. Claude Godart, Gérôme Canals, François Charoy , Pascal Molli and Hala Skaf. In International Conference On Software Engineering (ICSE 1996), pages 342-352, Berlin,Germany, March 1996. ,
  • COO-Transactions: Supporting Cooperative Work. Pascal Molli. In 7th International Workshop on Software Configuration Management (SCM7), pages 128-141, Boston, USA, May 1997. ,
  • COO Approach to Support Cooperation in Software Developments. Gérôme Canals, Claude Godart, François Charoy , Pascal Molli and Hala Skaf. IEE Software Engineering, 145(2-3):79-84, 1998.

§4.  Feeds and Readings