Dominique Decouchant

Chercheur au C.N.R.S. / Researcher at C.N.R.S.

Laboratoire L.S.R. (Logiciels Systèmes Réseaux)
Domaine Universitaire
681, rue de la passerelle
BP 72
38402 St Martin d'Hères Cedex - France

E-mail : Dominique.Decouchant@imag.fr
Phone : (33) 4 76 82 72 28
Fax : (33) 4 76 82 72 87

Dr. Dominique Decouchant is a Research Scientist at CNRS (french National Center for Scientific Research). He is a member of LSR-IMAG laboratory in Grenoble, France. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Grenoble (France) in 1987. He worked on the design and implementation of object-oriented distributed systems and distributed cooperative document editing on Internet ("Alliance" project). His current research interests include Web distributed cooperative authoring environment and middleware support for this kind of applications.

He is working on the PIÑAS platform which provides means for supporting cooperative authoring on the Web. More, using the services provided by this platform, he is designing and developping the AllianceWeb cooperative authoring application that allows several users to produce shared Web documents in a consistent and controlled way. PIÑAS provides several interesting distributed features: author identification, document and resource naming, document composition and management, document replication, consistency, and storage. These features are based on the definition of basic concepts (users, documents, resources, and services) needed in a cooperative environment as the World Wide Web will is moving to.

Student works related to this research topic:

• Projet DEA 1999/2000: "Support de travail coopératif synchrone / asynchrone pour le Web"

  This research has been performed by Piotr Nienaltowski.

• Projet DEA 2000/2001: "Gestion des événements de coopération et échanges d'informations dans PIÑAS"

  This research is currently performed by Sonia Guadalupe Mendoza Chapa.

• Projet DEA 2000/2001: "Architecture de communications coopératives synchrones sur l'Internet"

  This research is currently performed by Jesús Alberto Verduzco Ramirez.

• PhD thesis started in 1997/1998: to be provided
• PhD thesis started in 2000/2001: to be provided

Recent publications

• D. Decouchant, A. M. Martínez, E. Martínez, ``Documents for Web Cooperative Authoring'', In Proc. CRIWG'99, 5th CYTED-RITOS International Workshop on Groupware, IEEE Computer Society, Cancun (Mexico), pp. 286-295, 15-18 September 1999.

• D. Decouchant, A. M. Martínez, ``A Cooperative, Deductive, and Self-Adaptive Web Authoring Environment'', In Proc. MICAI-2000 Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Edited by: O. Cairo, L. E. Sucar et F. J. Cantu, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, no 1793, pp. 443-457, Springer Verlag, Acapulco (Mexico), 10-14 April 2000.

• D. Decouchant, J. Favela and A. M. Martínez, ``PIÑAS: A Middleware for Web Distributed Cooperative Authoring'', In Proc. SAINT'2001, The 2001 Symposium on Applications and the Internet, IEEE Computer Society and IPJ Information Processing Society of Japan, San Diego, CA (U.S.A), pp. ???, 8-12 January 2001, to appear.

On this project, he is cooperating with two mexican institutes represented by:

• Dr.Jesús Favela, Professor at CICESE (Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada) Ensenada, Baja California, México.
• Dra. Ana María Martínez Enríquez, Professor at CINVESTAV-IPN (Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN) México, D.F., México.

It´s not really surprising he appreciates México ...