Department Presentation

The LIFC (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l’univeristé de Franche-Comté), created in 1996, became in january 2012 a new (the 7-th) department of the CNRS research institute FEMTO-ST (UMR 6174). Its name is now DISC (Département d'Informatique des Systèmes Complexes, which stands in english for "Department of Computer Science for Complex Systems"). In the regional context, the new DISC department completes the FEMTO-ST already rich set of competences by the introduction of computer sciences. Its main research goal is to model, to simulate, to develop and to validate complex systems.

This site still presents some contents and news about the department, while waiting for its pages to be moved into the new (still up to come) version of the FEMTO-ST website. 

Before its integration into FEMTO-ST, the LIFC has been labelled CNRS (FRE 2661) between 2003 and 2007. Some of its research activities are supported by the INRIA. The department have never stopped from growing since it was created: its 2003 budget was six times its 1998 budget. Nowadays its budget is in average about 650 K€/year.

Staff et geographical distribution

The staff grows regularly. People are located in three different places, that correspond to training centers in computer science. In Besançon is the UFR ST, in Belfort is the IUT of Belfort/Montbéliard and in Montbéliard is the UFR STGI. There were 6 full professors in 1997 and there are 13 of them in 2008. The research group in Belfort-Montbéliard was made of one associate professor in 1998, and it is now made of 2 full professors and 8 associate professors on each of the two sites. Over the last four years, 8 out of the 10 people newly recruited were non local people, coming from ENS Cachan, Le Mans, ENS Lyon, Lille, Marseille, Toulouse, Nancy, Versailles…
The LIFC employs nowadays 96 people (contract employees, IATOS, PhD students, teachers-researchers).

Name and Structures

The DISC was first named LIB (Laboratoire d’Informatique de Besançon), later renamed to LIFC (Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’université de France-Comté) in 2000, in order to take into account that more than a third of the teachers-researchers are located on the Belfort-Montbéliard site. The management has also evolved accordingly. The LIFC is managed by one manager and two assistants, and at least one of these three people is located on the Belfort-Montbéliard site. The management team is assisted by a management board, with 5 full professor members. The decisions are based on the discussions of a management council that gathers members from each staff category (full professors, associate professors, IATOS, PhD students).

Research teams

Numerical and Distributed Algorithms: AND (resp. J. BAHI) (Belfort site)

• Numerical simulation and grid computing
• Sensor networks, chaos and discrete dynamical systems

Shared algorithmic cooperation, Networks, Optimization and scheduling: CARTOON (resp. H. GUYENNET)(Besançon site)

• Environments for grid and scheduling
• Distributed algorithms for cooperative applications
• Wireless sensor networks

Optimization, Mobility, Networking: OMNI (resp. J. BOURGEOIS)(Montbéliard site)

• Complex networks and localization
• Modelling and Optimizing of Positioning and Mobility

Verification, Specification, Test and Model Engineering: VESONTIO (resp. J. JULLIAND)(Besançon site)

• Modelling for verifying
• Systems security
• Symbolic and with constraints validation

Publications

During its last evaluation, the LIFC had 45 teachers-researchers among which 38 have been recognized as publishing by the Research Ministry.
http://lifc.univ-fcomte.fr/lifc/publications
 
 
LIFC - 16, Route de Gray 25 030 BESANCON Cedex-FRANCE
 
Secretary: Brigitte Bataillard

Phone + 33 (0)3 81 66 65 15
Fax + 33 (0)3 81 66 64 50