Coordinator's names Carole DELPORTE-GALLET Hugues ...

– As pointed out in the Task 1, our budget requests a grant for a 1-week visit per year per permanent
member for a total cost of 20 000 Euros.
– It is expected that most of the results will be communicated to top level international conferences
in distributed computing. Moreover, as explained at the beginning, it is also vitally important that
the members collaborate on the project topic with the other (international) experts on the domain.
The resulting cost is roughly estimated to 82000 Euros. It could be considered as rather high,
but it should be taken into account that the permanent members of the Paris partner published
82 papers in the major conferences of the domain in the last four years (the same duration as
the project). Even without taking into consideration the collaborations with other colleagues,
the participation to major workshops without refereed publications, and the missions of the non
permanent staff, this could already almost justify the value of 82 000 Euros for missions.
• Costs justified by internal invoicies
• Other expenses
The budget concerning small material will mostly be used for providing participants with appropriate
computers, and to give adequate resources to the PhDs and Post-doc involved in the project. Various
expenditures will be made throughout the project duration for a total cost of 20 000 Euros.
6.2 Partner 2: Rennes
Personnel
Post-doc
Master Internship
Mission
Small equipment
Amount
18 months
4*6 months
112 000 E
10 000 E
• Equipment
None.
• Staff
The post-doc student will be hired for working mainly on Task 3 devoted to Oracles. Of course, she will
also participate to the other tasks. The notion of oracle has been introduced many years ago mainly for
solving the consensus problem is asynchronous systems but has been extended to tackle many other
decision problems and among others we propose to extend this notion to the graph topology that
underlies any computing network.
The master student internships will be proposed to students in order to work on specific aspects on
the design of distributed data structures that rely on some oracle. These aspects will be connected to
tasks 5, 6 and 3. The internships will be proposed on a one or two per year basis probably starting
from the second year of the project.
• Subcontracting
None
• Mission
The total amount for travel is 112000 euros and is justified as follows:
– As pointed out in the Task 1, our budget requests a grant for a 1-week visit per year per member
for a total cost of 20000 Euros.
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