INRIA

INRIA is the French national research institute for digital science and technology, combining world-class research and technological innovation in 10 regional research centers. Within 215 research teams, most of which are joint teams with major research universities, more than 3,900 researchers and engineers explore new paths, often in an interdisciplinary manner and in collaboration with industrial partners, in order to meet ambitious challenges. As a technology institute, INRIA supports the diversity of innovation paths: from open-source software publishing to the creation of technology startups.

The INRIA Paris Research Center numbers 31 research teams. It is a leading player in the field of digital sciences in the Ile-de-France region. Its main research areas are: artificial intelligence, digital health, robotics, software reliability and security, distributed systems. It is at the heart of a rich R&D and innovation ecosystem including research and higher education players, laboratories of excellence, technological research institutes, large industrial groups, and competitiveness clusters.

The MIMOVE team at INRIA Paris undertakes research enabling next-generation mobile distributed systems and networks, from their conception and design to their runtime support, with focus on both middleware and data. MIMOVE has longstanding expertise in mobile and service-oriented computing, semantic technologies, interoperability, system emergence and evolution, edge/fog computing, and mobile crowdsensing. MIMOVE works on these topics through a great number of national and international collaborations with academia and industry, which include large-scale software development of real-world systems. MIMOVE’s research results have an impact on various application domains; MIMOVE focuses in particular on the application areas of IoT, smart cities, citizen participation.