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6 <name>Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA)
8 <country>France</country>
9 <url>http://www.inria.fr</url>
10 <address>Domaine de Voluceau, 78153 Rocquencourt Cedex, France</address>
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13 <p>INRIA (National Institute for Research in Computer Science and
14 Control) is a French public-sector scientific and technological
15 institute operating under the dual authority of the Ministry of
16 Research and the Ministry of Industry. INRIA's missions are ``to
17 undertake basic and applied research, to design experimental systems,
18 to ensure technology and knowledge transfer, to organise international
19 scientific exchanges, to carry out scientific assessments, and to
20 contribute to standardisation''.</p>
21 <p>The research carried out at INRIA brings together experts from the
22 fields of computer science and applied mathematics covering the
23 following areas: Networks and Systems; Software Engineering and
24 Symbolic Computing; Man-Machine Interaction; Image Processing, Data
25 Management, Knowledge Systems; Simulation and Optimisation of Complex
27 <p>INRIA gathers in its premises around 2 100 persons including 1 600
28 scientists , many of which belong to partner organisations (CNRS,
29 industrial labs, universities) and are assigned to work in common
30 ``projects''. On INRIA's budget, around 500 full-time equivalent R&D
31 positions can be accounted for.</p>
32 <p>A large number of INRIA senior researchers are involved in teaching
33 and their PhD students (about 550) prepare their thesis within the
34 different INRIA research projects (currently 74).</p>
35 <p>Its budget is roughly 90 MEuro, 20% of which comes from research and
36 development contracts, royalties and sales. Industrial relations are
37 strategic for INRIA:</p>
39 <dt>Industrial contracts and European Projects.</dt>
40 <dd>Numerous industrial partners contract with the Institute for
41 collaborative research. They are French or foreign
42 companies, of all sizes. 400 such contracts are presently
43 active. Roughly 40% of these contracts are European funded
44 ones. Since 1984, 250 European Framework-Programme (FP)
45 projects have been executed.</dd>
47 <dt>Technology companies.</dt>
48 <dd>As the ultimate step in technology transfer, researchers are party to
49 the setting up of companies in order to implement their
50 technology on the market. Thirty seven spin-off companies
51 have been created since 1984. In 1999, INRIA has launched
52 two subsidiaries to promote high-tech start-up companies:
53 INRIA-TRANSFERT deals with early accompaniment of the
54 future companies, whereas I-SOURCE GESTION provides for
57 <p>INRIA is a member of ERCIM EEIG, European Research Consortium for
58 Computer Science and Mathematics. Outside Europe, INRIA also has a
59 significant activity: it has created joint research laboratories
60 (Russia and China), signed cooperation agreements (NSF, India, Brazil,
61 etc.) and promotes intensive scientific exchanges.</p>
65 <url>http://www-sop.inria.fr/lemme</url>
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74 <p>The purpose of the Lemme project is to introduce and develop formal
75 methods for use in writing scientific computing software. In scientific
76 computing, algorithms and mathematics are at the forefront. We are thus
77 developing tools and methods to help producing correct programs starting
78 from the usual mathematical descriptions of data, algorithms, properties
79 and proofs, structured into four research themes:</p>
81 <li>Proof environments (development of the Pcoq system in Java and its
82 compatibility with XML/MathML).</li>
83 <li>Formalisation of mathematical theories (algebraic geometry, elementary
84 algebra and analysis).</li>
85 <li>Certified implementation of scientific computing algorithms (computer
86 algebra, arithmetics, logic).</li>
87 <li>Proofs on semantics of programming languages (Javacard).</li>
89 <p>The project belongs to the European working group Types, and to the
90 French action AOC (Arithm\'etique des Ordinateurs Certifiée). It keeps
91 up industrial collaborations with Dassault-Aviation (program proof
92 environments), Alcatel Space Industry (certified numerical code), and
93 GemPlus (Javacard certification), and also collaborates with teachers at
94 university on the use of formal proofs and Web-based environments in
95 mathematics courses.</p>
100 <url>http://www.logical.inria.fr</url>
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102 <member file="inria/delahaye"/>
104 <p>The LogiCal team of INRIA is working on theoretical and practical
105 aspects of mathematical proofs. It develops the Coq proof assistant,
106 an implementation of an expressive formalism called Calculus of
107 Inductive Constructions. Coq is used both for development of formal
108 mathematics and for certification of programs, especially protocols
109 and critical systems.</p>
110 <p>The LogiCal project is a joint project with University Paris 11. It
111 is involved in the European TYPES working group and in several French
112 actions. Especially, it is involved in the S-Java action aiming at
113 certifying safety properties for JavaCard programs, in a project
114 aiming at certifying algorithms used in computer algebra
115 systems. LogiCal collaborates also on proof automation with France