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Research Activities

Most of my research activities concern the algorithmic side of game theory and its applications in computer science. At the moment, I am particularly interested in stochastic games with partial observation[13,14].

I have proved several results about the existence of pure and stationary optimal strategies in zero-sum stochastic games with perfect information [2,3,6,7].
I have also worked on the approximability of parity games by multi-discounted games and existence of Blackwell optimal strategies in these games [4,5,7,8,9,11]. Beside their theoretical interests, these results have applications in controller synthesis for discrete event systems and verification of programs.

A few years ago, I used to be interested in games played on transition graphs of pushdown automata, and I designed algorithms for solving parity and exploration games on this kind of graphs [1]. These results provide new tools for the Model-Checking of programs with recursive calls.


Other Activities


Publications


Preprints


PhD thesis

I used to be a PhD student under the supervision of Wiesław Zielonka.
If you can read french and if you are interested in game theory, then have a look at my PhD thesis:

Other Publications


"Modelisation and Verification" Seminar

Homepage of the "Modelisation and Verification" seminar.

The "Graphs and Logic" seminar is now taken care of by Michaël Rao, see the new homepage . Here is an access to the former homepage year 08/09.

Teaching Activities

Homepage for the ENSEIRB course "Théorie des jeux pour la modélisation informatique".
Some material for tutorials I used to give in game theory, information theory, system, java and maths.


Projects

I am a member of the "DOTS" ANR project, the "GAMES" EURTN, the workgroup "Jeux" of the GdR-IM and the GdR "Théorie des Jeux: Modélisation Mathématiques et Applications".


Animation

Organizer of rencontres étudiants-chercheurs 2010 du LaBRI.

Organizer of "fête du LaBRI" 2008 and 2010.

Co-organizer of the GAMES-EPIT Spring School 2010.


CV

My CV is available here.

About automatic numerical evaluation of research

Two convincing critics of automatic numerical evaluation of publications and researchers using impact factors, h-numbers and so on...
A technical one, in french, written by INRIA computer scientists.
Another one, "The Mismeasurement of Science" less technical and more acid, written by a Cambridge biologist.
The mitigated opinion of the french academy of science.


Robots

If you are interested in humanoid robots, this is a very good page about robots with legs and arms, humanoid robots so to say...


Peru

How come you went that down on muy webpage? Are you interested in kite surf in Mancora or paddle surf trip and chill in Mancora in the EcoLodge or the EcoHouse, where you can enjoy Yoga. This hôtel écologique has been built by my cousin arquitecto Tom Gimbert.