Glossary
This glossary contains definitions of useful concepts for the INRIA Strategic Plan.
A
AERES
Research and higher education evaluation agency
AESE
Aeronautics, space and embedded systems (competitiveness cluster)
AII
AII Industrial innovation agency
AIR & D
Ambient Intelligence Research & Development
ALADDIN
Technological development action relating to the GRID 5000 infrastructure
ANR
National research agency
ARC
Cooperative research action
ARCADIA
Quadric, algorithm, implementation and application arrangements
ARTEMIS
Program for Embedded Systems R&D in Europe
ARTEMISIA
ARTEMIS Industrial Association
ASTI
French association for information science and technology
C
CADP
Construction and Analysis of Distributed Processes
CAD
Computer Assisted Design
CAPRI
Secure networks of sensors (cf. Minalogic)
CARI
African conference on research in computer science
CASP
Critical Assessment of techniques for protein Structure Prediction
CCSTI
Scientific, technical and industrial culture center
CDRI
Officer in charge of the development of industrial relations
CEA
Atomic energy center
CEA-DSV
Atomic energy center - Life sciences division
CECILL
French open source software license [for Ce(A)C(nrs)I(NRIA)L(ogiciel)L(ibre)]
CEO
Chief executive officer
CERMICS
Computer science and scientific computing research and teaching center
CHU
Teaching hospital
CIRAD
Center for international cooperation in agronomical research for development
CITI
Center for innovations in telecommunication and service integration
CMAP
Center of applied mathematics
CNPQ
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (Brazil)
CNRS
National scientific research center
CORDI-S
State-subsidized INRIA doctoral research contract
CPER
State-region project contract
CPU
French university chancellors' conference
CPU
Central Process Unit
CSAIL
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT, United States)
CSTB
French building research center
CWI
Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (Netherlands)
D
DARPA
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (United States)
DFKI
Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (Germany)
DGA
French national armament agency
DGE
French business agency
DirDRI
French agency for development and industrial relations
DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid
DTN
Delay-Tolerant Networking
E
EADS
European Aeronautic Defense and Space company
ECG
Electrocardiogram
EDF
Électricité de France
EDP
Partial differential equations
EDT
Experimentation and development department
EEG
Electroencephalogram
EIFFEL
Evolved Internet Future for European Leadership
ELM
Extended length message
ENS
École normale supérieure
EPoSS
European Platform on Smart Systems Integration
EPST
Public scientific and technological institution
ERC
European Research Council
ERCIM
European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics
ETP
European Technology Platform
ETSI
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
EUROFI
Banking and Finance in Europe
EUROP
European Robotics Platform
F
FCE
Business competitiveness fund (see DGE)
FIND
Future Internet Network Design (see NSF)
FIRE
Future Internet Research and Experimentation
FT
France Telecom
FT R&D
France Telecom Research and Development
FTTH
Fiber To The Home
G
GENI
Global Environment for Networking Innovations (see NSF)
GET
Telecommunications schools group
GIS
Scientific interest group
GMD
Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (Germany)
GMO
Genetically modified organism
GNP
Gross national product
GPU
Graphics Processing Unit
H
HAL
Hyper Article Online
HQE
High energy quality
HRIS
Human resources information system
I
ICST
Information and communication science and technology
IECN
Institut Elie Cartan (in Nancy)
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force
IFN
National forestry inventory
IFREMER
French institute of research for the exploitation of the sea
IMB
Bordeaux mathematics institute
IMI
Innovative Medicines Initiative
INA
National audiovisual institute
INPG
National polytechnic institute in Grenoble
INPL
National polytechnic institute in Lorraine
INRA
National institute for agricultural research
INRIA
National institute for research in computer science and automatic control
INSA
National institute of applied science
INSERM
National institute for health and medical research
INTERREG
Acronym for a European program on cooperation between border regions
IPv6
Internet Protocol v6
IPT
INRIA project-team
IRIA
Research institute for computer science and automatic control
IRISA
Research institute for computer science and random systems
IRSN
Institute for radiological protection and nuclear safety
ISI
Integral Satcom Initiative
ISO
International Standards Organization
ITA
Engineers, technicians and administrative staff
ITEA
Information Technology for European Advancement
ITER
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
J
JAD
Jean-Alexandre Dieudonné laboratory
JCP
Java Community Process
JSPS
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
L
LABRI
Bordeaux laboratory for computer science research
LAGIS
Automatic control, computer engineering and signal processing laboratory
LIAMA
Franco-Chinese laboratory for computer science, automatic control and applied mathematics
LIENS
École normale supérieure computer science laboratory (see ENS)
LIFL
Lille pure computer science laboratory
LIG
Grenoble computer science laboratory
LINA
Nantes Atlantique computer science laboratory
LIP
Parallel computer science laboratory
LIP6
University of Paris 6 computer science laboratory
LIRMM
Montpellier computer science, robotics and microelectronics laboratory
LIX
École Polytechnique computer science laboratory
LJK
Jean Kuntzmann laboratory
LMA
Pau applied mathematics laboratory
LMD
Dynamic meteorology laboratory
LORIA
Lorraine laboratory for computer science and applications research
LRI
Computer science research laboratory
LSV
Specification and verification laboratory
M
MEMS
Microelectromechanical systems
MERCATOR
Mercator Ocean public interest group
MIGP
Pau geosciences imaging and modeling laboratory
MINALOGIC
Micro-nano technologies and embedded software intelligence (competitiveness cluster)
MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States)
MOST
Ministry of Science and Technology (China)
MPG
Max Planck Gesellschaft (Germany)
N
NEM
Networked and Electronic Media
NEMS
Nano Electro Mechanical Computers
NESSI
Networked European Software and Services Initiative
NICTA
National Information and Communication Technologies Australia
NIH
Nuclear magnetic resonance
NIST
National Institute of Standards and Technology (United States)
NITRD
Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program (United States)
NMR
Nuclear magnetic resonance
NOEMS
Nano Opto Electro Mechanical Systems
NS3
National Security Swath Ship (DCNS group)
NSF
National Science Foundation (United States)
NWO
Nederlanse Organisatie voor Wetenshappelijk Onderzoek (Netherlands)
O
ODL
Software development operation
OLSR
Optimized Link State Routing protocol
OMG
OBJECT Management Group
ONERA
National office for aerospace studies and research
P
P2P
Peer to peer
PACA
Provence - Alpes - Côte d'Azur region
PCRD
Research and development framework program
PFE
Experimental platforms
PRES
Research and higher education cluster
PSSI
Information systems security policy
R
R & D
Research and development
RATP
The Paris transport authority
RFID
Radio-frequency identification
RIIT
Cross border tourist route networks (see INTERREG)
RTRA
Thematic advanced research network
S
SARIMA
Support for computer science and mathematics research in Africa
SCS
Secure communication systems (competitiveness cluster)
SICONOS
European Modeling, Simulation and Control of Non-smooth Dynamical Systems project
SIS
Spontaneous information system
SME
Small and medium-sized companies
SNCF
French national railways
SOCs
Systems-On-Chips
STM
Abbreviation for STMicroelectronics
T
TDI
Technological development action
U
UCSD
University of California, San Diego (United States)
UDLR
Unidirectional Link Routing protocol
UNSA
University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis
USTL
Lille university of science and technology
V
VAT
Value added tax
W
W3C
World Wide Web Consortium
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