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In short...

• Senior associate Professor at IMT Atlantique, campus Nantes
• Member of the Stack research team (a spin-off from Ascola) and member of the LS2N (UMR CNRS 6004)
• Head of the apprenticeship program in Software Engineering FIL (Software engineering)
• Head of the teaching chair "ArchOps"

• Chevalier (Knight) dans l'ordre des Palmes académiques (january 2016)
• Best Paper Award - Conference CLOSER 2017 (the 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science), April 2017
• Best Paper Award - Conference CLOSER 2018 (the 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science), March 2018

Research

• Software engineering, Programming languages (reflective object-oriented, Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE), Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD)), Software architecture, Autonomic computing, Dynamic reconfiguration
• Middleware, Service-oriented computing, Sustainable computing, Cloud computing, Fog computing

• All Publications

• Last publications
  • Hamza Sahli, Thomas Ledoux and Eric Rutten. Modeling Self-Adaptive Fog Systems Using Bigraphs. In16th International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-adaptiveness of Software Applications (FOCLASA), Oslo, Norway, 17 September, 2019

• Dimitri Saingre, Thomas Ledoux, Jean-Marc Menaud. BCTMark : vers un outil pour l’évaluation des performances et du coût énergétique des technologies blockchain. In Conférence d'informatique en Parallélisme, Architecture et Système (COMPAS), 25 - 28 Juin, 2019. Anglet, France

• Thomas Ledoux. Dynamic reconfiguration of software architectures: from metaclasses to "green Clouds" (in french). Habilitation thesis (HDR). Université de Nantes, July 2018

• Zakarea Al-Shara, Frederico Alvares, Hugo Bruneliere, Jonathan Lejeune, Charles Prud'Homme, Thomas Ledoux. CoMe4ACloud: An End-to-end Framework for Autonomic Cloud Systems. In Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), vol. 86, pp 339-354, 2018 (available online 5 April 2018)

• Hugo Bruneliere, Zakarea Al-shara, Frederico Alvares, Jonathan Lejeune and Thomas Ledoux. A Model-based Architecture for Autonomic and Heterogeneous Cloud Systems. In the 8h International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2018),  Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 19-21 March 2018.

• Md Sabbir Hasan, Frederico Alvares de Oliveira and Thomas Ledoux. GPaaScaler: Green Energy aware Platform Scaler for Interactive Cloud Application. In the 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2017), Austin, Texas, USA, Dec 5-8, 2017

• Md Sabbir Hasan, Frederico Alvares de Oliveira , Thomas Ledoux and Jean-Louis Pazat.  Investigating Energy consumption and Performance trade-off for Interactive Cloud Application. In IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, vol. 2, no. 2, pp.113-126, April-June 1 2017 (available online 13 june 2017).

• Md Sabbir Hasan, Yousri Kouki, Thomas Ledoux and Jean Louis Pazat. Exploiting Renewable sources: when Green SLA becomes a possible reality in Cloud computing. In IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Vol. 5, No 2,  pp. 249-262, April-June 1 2017 (available online 22 july 2015).

• ElaScript: a domain specific language for cross-layer elasticity in Cloud computing (forthcoming)
• CSLA: Cloud Service Level Agreement language
• FPath/FScript: navigation and reconfiguration languages for Fractal architectures
• WildCAT: a generic framework for context-aware applications

• Organization co-chair of the Workshop SLA Management in Cloud computing (Grenoble, 15th January 2013)
• Organization co-chair of the 4th European Summer School on Aspect-oriented Software Development (Nantes, August 2009)
• Tutorial co-chair ECOOP 2006 (Nantes, July 2006)
• PC chair Journées Composants (Le Croisic, April 2005)
• PC co-chair workshop "Reflection and Meta-level Architectures" (ECOOP 2000)
• PC member :
  • Books : Achieving Federated and Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures: Theory and Practice (IGI Global, 2012)
  • International Peer-Reviewed Journals : Journal of Systems Architecture - Elsevier (2018, 2019)  ; Future Generation Computer Systems (2018, 2019) ; IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (2017) ; IEEE Communications Letters (2016) ; Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Elsevier (2015) ; Journal of Grid Computing - Springer (2013) ; Annals of Telecoms - special issue: Component based architecture, the Fractal initiative - Springer (Volume 64, n°1/2-2009) ; IEEE Transactions ofSoftware Engineering (2001)
  • French journal : Technique et Science Informatiques (TSI) - Hermès/Lavoisier (2013, 2014) ; Ingénierie des systèmes d'information (ISI) - n° spécial "Adaptation et gestion du contexte" – Hermès/ Lavoisier (vol.11/5-2006) ; Technique et Science Informatiques (TSI) - n° spécial "Systèmes à composants adaptables et extensibles", Hermès/Lavoisier (vol. 23/2 -2004) ; l'Objet - n° spécial "Coopérationet systèmes à objets" – Hermès/Lavoisier (vol. 8/3 -2002)
  • Conferences : ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC'13, SAC'14, SAC'15) - track Software Engineering Aspects of Green Computing ; International Conference on Eco-friendly Computing and Communication Systems (ICECCS'14, ICECCS’15) ; International Conference on ICT as Key Technology against Global Warming (ICT- GLOW'11, ICT - GLOW'12) ; IEEE International Conference on Green Computing (ICGREEN 2011)
  • Workshops :  1st Workshop on Service Quality and Quantitative Evaluation in new Emerging Technologies @ IC2E 2019 ; Workshop CrossCloud’19 @ CCGrid ; International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software (Greens'14, Greens'15, Greens'16, Greens'18) @ ICSE ; Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM'08, ARM'09, ARM'10, ARM'11, ARM'12, ARM'13, ARM'14, ARM'15, ARM'16, ARM'17, ARM'19) @ Middleware; Workshop (CrossCloud'16, CrossCloud'17, CrossCloud’18) @ EuroSys ; Workshop CrossCloud'14 @INFOCOM ; Workshop CrossCloud Brokers '14 @ Middleware ; International Workshop on Green Computing Middleware (GCM'2010, GCM'11, GCM'12, GCM'13) @ UCC ; 1st International Workshop on Green In Software Engineering, Green By Software Engineering (GIBSE'13) @ AOSD ; ACM 1st Workshop on Middleware and Architectures for Autonomic and Sustainable Computing (MAASC'11) ; IEEE International Workshop on Methodologies for Non-functional Properties in Services Computing (2008)
  • Competitions : UCC Cloud Challenge (2018, 2019)
• Evaluation committees and expertise: expert for the ANR Technologies Logicielles 2007 call, expert for the ANR Arpege 2010 call
• PhD evaluation committees: Umar Ozeer – Univ. Grenoble Alpes (11/12/2019), Amir Teshome Wonjiga – Univ. Rennes 1 (03/06/2019),  Xinxiu Tao – Univ. Grenoble Alpes (29/01/2019), Yahya Al-Dhuraibi at Univ. Lille (10/12/2018), Xuan Sang Le at UBO (31/05/2017), Zakarea Al Shara at Univ. Montpellier (17/11/2016), Erwan Daubert at Université Rennes 1 (24/05/2013),  Loris Bouzonnet at LIG-IMAG (16/09/2011), Roméo Said at UBS (23/02/2011), Franck Chauvel at UBS (19/09/2008),  Nagapraveen Jayaprakash at LSR-IMAG (27/06/2008), Romain Rouvoy at LIFL (08/12/2006), Olivier Barais at LIFL (29/11/2005), Victor Budau at INT Evry (19/11/2003).

• Member of the board of the Regional Doctoral School STIM (2008-2013)
• Member of the administrative committee of the INRIA Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique (2009-2011)
• Member of the board of Follow-up committee of the PhDs thesis at LINA (2009-2011)
• Member of the board of the LINA laboratory (2004-2007)

• Dimitri Saingre (started in November 2018) : Blockchain and energy
• Sabbir Hasan (03/05/2017) : Smart management of renewable energy in Clouds: from infrastructure to application
• Simon Dupont (26/04/2016): Crosslayer elasticity management for Cloud: towards an efficient usage of Cloud resources and services
• Yousri Kouki (09/12/2013): SLA-driven Cloud Elasticity Management approach
• Frederico Alvares (09/04/2013): Multi Autonomic Management for Optimizing Energy Consumption in Cloud Infrastructures
• Marc Léger (19/05/2009): Reliability of dynamic reconfigurations in component-based architectures
• Fabien Baligand (25/06/2008): A declarative approach for quality of service management in service compositions
• Pierre-Charles David (1/07/2005): Développement de composants Fractal adaptatifs: un langage dédié à l'aspect d'adaptation

Contracts and Grants with Industry

• PhD Grants: Sigma informatique (Simon Dupont), Orange Labs (Marc Léger, Fabien Baligand)

• Projects: Ademe Perfecto GL4MA : Green Label for Microservices Architecture (2019-2021) ; Atlanstic 2020 CoMe4ACloud : Constraints and Model Engineering for Autonomic Clouds (2016-2017) ; Labex CominLabs EPOC (2013-2017) : Energy proportional and opportunistic computing systems ; FSN OpenCloudware (2012-2014) : Think to PaaS for Multi-IaaS Cloud Computing ; ANR MyCloud (2010-2013) : SLA and quality of service for Cloud Computing ; ADT INRIA Galaxy (2008-2010) : an open agile SOA framework ; RNTL Selfware (2005-2008) : plate-forme répartie sous administration autonome ; RNTL ARCAD (2000-2004) : adaptation dynamique de composants répartis ; France Telecom R&D grant (1999-2001) : infrastructure réflexive supportant la mobilité forte en Java

Teaching

Contact

Thomas.Ledoux@imt-atlantique.fr Equipe Ascola, DAPI IMT Atlantique, campus Nantes 4, rue Alfred Kastler BP 20722 44307 Nantes Cedex 3-France