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Books
[1] J. M. Bahi, S. Contassot-Vivier, and R. Couturier. Parallel Iterative Algorithms: from sequential to grid computing. Numerical Analysis & Scientific Computing Series. Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2007.
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Chapters in books
[1] S. Vialle and S. Contassot-Vivier. Patterns for parallel programming on GPUs, chapter Optimization methodology for Parallel Programming of Homogeneous or Hybrid Clusters. Saxe-Coburg Publications, Stirling, UK, 2014.
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[2] Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, Stéphane Vialle, and Jens Gustedt. Designing Scientific Applications on GPUs, chapter Development methodologies for GPU and cluster of GPUs, pages 105--149. Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2013.
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[3] S. Vialle, S. Contassot-Vivier, and T. Jost. Handbook of Energy-Aware and Green Computing, chapter Optimizing Computing and Energy Performances in Heterogeneous Clusters of CPUs and GPUs, pages 761--793. Computer & Information Science Series. Chapman and Hall/CRC, Jan 2012.
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[4] M. Sauget, S. Contassot-Vivier, and M. Salomon. Horizons in Computer Science Research, volume 7, chapter Parallelization of neural network building and training: an original decomposition method, pages 193--223. Nova publishers, 2011.
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Software licenses
[1] Sylvain Contassot-Vivier and Serge Miguet. Volter. Agence pour la Protection des Programmes. No: IDDN.FR.001.460013.00.S.P.1996.000.21000, 1996.
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[2] Jacques Bahi, Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, Libor Makovicka, Eric Martin, and Marc Sauget. Neurad. Agence pour la Protection des Programmes. No: IDDN.FR.001.130035.000.S.P.2006.000.10000, 2006.
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International journals
[1] Fatmir Asllanaj, Addoum Ahmad, and Sylvain Contassot-Vivier. Detection of tumor-like inclusions embedded within human liver tissue using a short-pulsed near-infrared laser beam: parallel simulations with radiative transfer equation. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Elsevier, 165:11, June 2015.
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[2] Fatmir Asllanaj, Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, André Liemert, and Alwin J. Kienle. Radiative transfer equation for predicting light propagation in biological media: comparison of a modified finite volume method, the monte carlo technique, and an exact analytical solution. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 19(1), 2014. 10 pages, DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.19.1.015002.
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[3] Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, Thomas Jost, and Stéphane Vialle. Impact of asynchronism on GPU accelerated parallel iterative computations. In Kristján Jónasson, editor, Applied Parallel and Scientific Computing, 10th International Conference, PARA 2010, volume 7133 of LNCS, pages 43--53. Springer, Heidelberg, 2012. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28151-8.
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[4] Jacques M. Bahi, Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, and Arnaud Giersch. Load balancing in dynamic networks by bounded delays asynchronous diffusion. In J.M.L.M. Palma et al., editor, VECPAR 2010, volume 6449 of LNCS, pages 352--365. Springer, Heidelberg, 2011. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19328-6_33.
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[5] T. Jost, S. Contassot-Vivier, and S. Vialle. An efficient multi-algorithms sparse linear solver for GPUs. In B. Chapman, F. Desprez, A. Joubert, G.R. Lichnewsky, F. Peters, and T. Priol, editors, Parallel Computing: From Multicores and GPU's to Petascale, volume 19 of Advances in Parallel Computing, pages 546--553. IOS Press, May 2010. ISBN: 978-1-60750-529-7.
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[6] Jacques M. Bahi and Sylvain Contassot-Vivier. Corrections to "basins of attraction in fully asynchronous discrete-time discrete-state dynamic networks". IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 20(8):1372--1374, 2009.
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[7] Jacques M. Bahi, Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, and Marc Sauget. An incremental learning algorithm for functional approximation. Advances in Engineering Software, 40(8):725--730, 2009. doi:10.1016/j.advengsoft.2008.12.018.
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[8] Aurélien Vasseur, Libor Makovicka, Éric Martin, Marc Sauget, Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, and Jacques M. Bahi. Dose calculations using artificial neural networks: a feasibility study for photon beams. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B, 266(7):1085--1093, 2008.
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[9] Jacques M. Bahi and Sylvain Contassot-Vivier. Basins of attraction in fully asynchronous discrete-time discrete-state dynamic networks. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 17(2):397--408, 2006.
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[10] J.M. Bahi, S. Contassot-Vivier, and R. Couturier. Performance comparison of parallel programming environments for implementing AIAC algorithms. Journal of Supercomputing. Special Issue on Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Parallel and Distributed Systems, 35(3):227--244, 2006.
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[11] J. Bahi, S. Contassot-Vivier, and R. Couturier. Evaluation of the asynchronous iterative algorithms in the context of distant heterogeneous clusters. Parallel Computing, 31(5):439--461, 2005.
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[12] R. Mathieu, E. Martin, R. Gschwind, L. Makovicka, S. Contassot-Vivier, and J. Bahi. Calculations of dose distributions using a neural network model. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 50(5):1019--1028, 2005.
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[13] J. Bahi, S. Contassot-Vivier, and R. Couturier. Dynamic load balancing and efficient load estimators for asynchronous iterative algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 16(4):289--299, 2005.
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[14] J. Bahi, S. Contassot-Vivier, R. Couturier, and F. Vernier. A decentralized convergence detection algorithm for asynchronous parallel iterative algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 16(1):4--13, 2005.
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[15] Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, Frédéric Lombard, Jean-Marc Nicod, and Laurent Philippe. Evaluation of the DIET hierarchical metacomputing architecture. Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices: Special Issue on Parallel Numeric Algorithms on Faster Computers, 5(4), December 2002.
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[16] Jacques M. Bahi and Sylvain Contassot-Vivier. Stability of fully asynchronous discrete-time discrete-state dynamic networks. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 13(6):1353--1363, 2002.
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[17] Eddy Caron, Serge Chaumette, Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, Frédéric Desprez, Eric Fleury, Claude Gomez, Maurice Goursat, Emmanuel Jeannot, Dominique Lazure, Fréderic Lombard, Jean-Marc Nicod, Laurent Philippe, Martin Quinson, Pierre Ramet, Jean Roman, Franck Rubi, Serge Steer, Frédéric Suter, and Gil Utard. Scilab to Scilab//, the OURAGAN Project. Parallel Computing, 11(27):1497--1519, 2001.
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[18] Sylvain Contassot-Vivier and Serge Miguet. A Load-Balanced Algorithm For Parallel Digital Image Warping. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 13(4):445--463, 1999.
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[19] Sylvain Contassot-Vivier. A Load Balanced Parallel Ground Visualization Tool. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 11(7):1113--1127, 1997.
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National journals
[1] Sylvain Contassot-Vivier and Jacques M. Bahi. Convergence dans les systèmes booléens asynchrones et application aux réseaux de Hopfield. Calculateurs Parallèles, 13(1):107--124, 2001.
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International conferences
[1] Sylvain Contassot-Vivier and Stéphane Vialle. Algorithmic scheme for hybrid computing with CPU, Xeon-Phi/MIC and GPU devices on a single machine. In International Conference on Parallel Computing 2015 (ParCo 2015), pages 1--10, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, September 2015.
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[2] Stéphane Vialle, Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, and Patrick Mercier. Generic algorithmic scheme for 2D stencil applications on hybrid machines. In ARCS 2016 - Architecture of Computing Systems , Nuremberg, Germany, April 2016.
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[3] Fatmir Asllanaj, Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, André Liemert, and Alwin J. Kienle. Radiative transfer equation for predicting light propagation in biological media: comparison of a modified finite volume method, the monte carlo technique, and an exact analytical solution. In International Conferences on Laser Applications in Life Sciences (LALS), Ulm, Germany, June 2014.
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[4] S. Contassot-Vivier and D. Elizondo. A near linear algorithm for testing linear separability in two dimensions. In EANN 2012, London, United-Kingdom, September 2012.
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[5] M. Sauget, J. Henriet, M. Salomon, and S. Contassot-Vivier. Large datasets: a mixed method to adapt and improve their learning by neural networks used in regression contexts. In EANN 2011, pages 182--191, Corfu, Greece, September 2011.
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[6] S. Contassot-Vivier, T. Jost, and S. Vialle. Impact of asynchronism on GPU accelerated parallel iterative computations. In PARA 2010 conference: State of the Art in Scientific and Parallel Computing, pages 43--53, Reykjavík, Iceland, June 2010.
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[7] J.M. Bahi, S. Contassot-Vivier, and A. Giersch. Load balancing in dynamic networks by bounded delays asynchronous diffusion. In 10th International Meeting on High Performance Computing for Computational Science, VECPAR'10, Berkeley, USA, June 2010.
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[8] Marc Sauget, Rémy Laurent, Julien Henriet, Michel Salomon, Régine Gschwind, Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, Libor Makovicka, and Charles Soussen. Efficient domain decomposition for a neural network learning algorithm, used for the dose evaluation in external radiotherapy. In Konstantinos Diamantaras, Wlodek Duch, and Lazaros Iliadis, editors, Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2010, volume 6352 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 261--266. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2010.
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[9] Sylvain Contassot Vivier, Stéphane Vialle, and Thomas Jost. Optimizing computing and energy performances on GPU clusters: experimentation on a PDE solver. In Jean-Marc Pierson and Helmut Hlavacs, editors, Proceedings of the COST Action IC0804 on Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems, 1st Year, pages 50--54, Passau Allemagne, 2010. IRIT.
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[10] T. Jost, S. Contassot-Vivier, and S. Vialle. An efficient multi-algorithms sparse linear solver for GPUs. In EuroGPU mini-symposium of the International Conference on Parallel Computing, ParCo2009, pages 546--553, Lyon, September 2009.
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[11] J. Bahi, S. Contassot-Vivier, and R. Couturier. An efficient and robust decentralized algorithm for detecting the global convergence in asynchronous iterative algorithms. In 8th International Meeting on High Performance Computing for Computational Science, VECPAR'08, pages 251--264, Toulouse, June 2008.
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[12] J. Bahi, S. Contassot-Vivier, M. Sauget, and A. Vasseur. A parallel incremental learning algorithm for neural networks with fault tolerance. In 8th International Meeting on High Performance Computing for Computational Science, VECPAR'08, pages 502--515, Toulouse, June 2008.
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[13] S. Contassot-Vivier, R. Couturier, C. Denis, and F. Jézéquel. Efficiently solving large sparse linear systems on a distributed and heterogeneous grid by using the multisplitting-direct method. In 4th International Workshop on Parallel Matrix Algorithms and Applications, PMAA'06, pages 21--22, IRISA, Rennes, September 2006.
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[14] J. Bahi, S. Contassot-Vivier, L. Makovicka, E. Martin, and M. Sauget. Neural network based algorithm for radiation dose evaluation in heterogeneous environments. In Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2006, volume 4132/2006 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 777--787, Athens, Greece, September 2006. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.
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[15] A. Abbas, J. Bahi, S. Contassot-Vivier, and M. Salomon. Mixing synchronism / asynchronism in discrete-state discrete-time dynamic networks. In 4th International Conference on Engineering Applications and Computational Algorithms, DCDIS 2005., pages 524--529, Guelph, Canada, July 2005.
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[16] J. Bahi, S. Contassot-Vivier, and R. Couturier. Performance comparison of parallel programming environments for implementing AIAC algorithms. In 18th IEEE and ACM Int. Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2004, pages 247b, 8 pages, Santa Fe, USA, April 2004. IEEE computer society press.
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[17] J. Bahi, S. Contassot-Vivier, and R. Couturier. Coupling dynamic load balancing with asynchronism in iterative algorithms on the computational grid. In 17th IEEE and ACM int. conf. on International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2003, pages 40a, 9 pages, Nice, France, April 2003. IEEE computer society press.
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[18] Jacques M. Bahi, Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, and Raphaël Couturier. Asynchronism for iterative algorithms in a global computing environment. In The 16th Annual International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications (HPCS'2002), pages 90--97, Moncton, Canada, June 2002.
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[19] Sylvain Contassot-Vivier and Jean-Paul Rasson. Vectorization, matching and simplification of image contours in uncalibrated aerial stereo-vision. In The EOS/SPIE Symposium on Remote Sensing : Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing VI, pages 41--48, Barcelone, Spain, September 2000.
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[20] Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, Frédéric Lombard, Jean-Marc Nicod, and Laurent Philippe. Specification of a Scilab meta-computing extension. In ICPP Workshops : International Workshop on Metacomputing Systems and Applications, pages 207--214, Toronto, Canada, August 2000.
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[21] Sylvain Contassot-Vivier and Serge Miguet. Optimization and Parallelization of a Geographical Stereo Vision Code. In The Sixth International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics and Visualization'98, pages 65--72, University of West Bohemia, Campus Bory, Plzen, Czech Republic, February 1998.
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[22] Sylvain Contassot-Vivier and Serge Miguet. Parallel Geometric Transformations of Images. In Fifth International Workshop on Parallel Image Analysis, pages 13--30, Hiroshima, Japan, September 1997.
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[23] Sylvain Contassot-Vivier and Serge Miguet. Parallel Visualization of Texture-Mapped Digital Elevation Models. In Fourth International Workshop on Parallel Image Analysis, pages 269--282, Lyon, France, December 1995.
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National conferences
[1] A. Vasseur, M. Sauget, E. Martin, S. Contassot-Vivier, L. Makovicka, and J. Bahi. Utilisation d'un code de calcul dosimétrique basé sur les réseaux de neurones artificiels et la méthode de Monte-Carlo. In 45èmes Journées Scientifiques de la SFPM, June 2006.
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[2] Marc Sauget, Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, Jacques Bahi, Eric Martin, and Libor Makovicka. Utilisation des réseaux de neurones pour la conception d'un code de calcul pour la dosimétrie en radiothérapie externe. In 22ièmes Journées des Laboratoires Associés de Radiophysique et de Dosimétrie, Montbéliard, France, October 2005.
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[3] Marc Sauget, Eric Martin, Régine Gschwind, Libor Makovicka, Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, and Jacques Bahi. Développement d'un code de calcul dosimétrique basé sur les réseaux artificiels de neurones. In 44ièmes Journées Scientifiques de la Société Française de Physique Médicale, Avignon, France, June 2005.
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[4] J. Bahi, S. Contassot-Vivier, R. Couturier, and F. Vernier. Asynchronisme et équilibrage de charge dans la grille de calcul. In École d'hiver GRID 2002, pages 365--373, Aussois, France, December 2002.
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[5] Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, Frédéric Lombard, Jean-Marc Nicod, and Laurent Philippe. Spécification de services sous CORBA pour une extension métacomputing de Scilab. In RenPar'12, pages 33--38, Besançon, France, June 2000.
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[6] Sylvain Contassot-Vivier. Calculs Parallèles pour la Visualisation de Terrains avec Textures. In RenPar'8, Edition Spéciale, GDR-PRC Parallélisme, Réseaux et Systèmes, pages 93--96, Bordeaux, France, May 1996.
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Other communications
[1] Thomas Jost, Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, and Stéphane Vialle. On the interest of clusters of GPUs. In Grid'5000 Spring School 2010, Lille, France, April 2010. Poster.
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[2] Thomas Jost, Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, and Stéphane Vialle. Solveur d'EDP sur cluster de GPU. In RGE (Réseau Grand Est), Besançon, France, February 2010.
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[3] Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, Stéphane Vialle, and Thomas Jost. Algorithmes itératifs asynchrones et grappe de GPUs. In Journée jeunes chercheurs sur les Multiprocesseurs et Multicoeurs, Paris, France, June 2009.
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[4] Thomas Jost, Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, and Stéphane Vialle. Solveur linéaire sur GPU. In Journée jeunes chercheurs sur les Multiprocesseurs et Multicoeurs, Paris, France, June 2009.
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[5] Marc Sauget, Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, Jacques Bahi, Eric Martin, and Libor Makovicka. Évaluation de doses d'irradiation en milieux hétérogènes. In Journées de L'ISIFC, Besançon, France, October 2005.
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[6] Roland Mathieu, Éric Martin, Régine Gschwind, Libor Makovicka, Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, and Jacques Bahi. Utilisation des réseaux d'apprentissage neuronaux en radiothérapie externe. In 43èmes Journées scientifiques de la SFPM, Montpellier, France, June 2004. prix de la meilleur communication affichée.
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[7] Roland Mathieu, Régine Gschwind, Éric Martin, Libor Makovicka, Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, and Jacques Bahi. Use of the neural networks in external radiotherapy. In Current Topics in Monte Carlo Treatment Planning, Advanced Workshop, Montréal, Canada, May 2004.
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[8] Roland Mathieu, Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, Libor Makovicka, Régine Gschwind, Éric Martin, and Jacques Bahi. Utilisation des RNA en dosimétrie. In 20èmes Journées des LARD, Clermont-Ferrand, France, October 2003.
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[9] Roland Mathieu, Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, Camille Guillerminet, Régine Gschwind, Libor Makovicka, and Jacques Bahi. Prospective de la planification des traitements radiothérapeutiques basée sur les réseaux de neurones. In Journées Codes de calcul en radioprotection, radiophysique et dosimétrie, Sochaux, France, October 2003. SFRP-SFPM-FIRAM.
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[10] Sylvain Contassot-Vivier. Parallel visualization of texture-mapped digital elevation models. In Séminaire dans le cadre du projet PARALIN, Département d'Ingénierie Mathématique, Université de Santiago, Chili, November 1996.
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Research reports
[1] Jacques Bahi, Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, and Raphaël Couturier. Interest of the asynchronism in parallel iterative algorithms on meta-clusters. Research report, AND Team, LIFC, IUT de Belfort-Montbéliard, Belfort, France, 2005.
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[2] Jacques Bahi and Sylvain Contassot-Vivier. A convergence result on fully-asynchronous discrete-time discrete-state dynamic networks. Research report, AND Team, LIFC, IUT de Belfort-Montbéliard, Belfort, France, 2002.
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[3] E.Caron, P.Combes, S.Contassot-Vivier, F.Desprez, F.Lombard, J.-M.Nicod, M.Quinson, and F.Suter. A scalable approach to network enabled servers. Research Report 2002-21, Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme (LIP), École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France, May 2002.
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[4] E.Caron, S.Chaumette, S.Contassot-Vivier, F.Desprez, E.Fleury, C.Gomez, M.Goursat, E.Jeannot, D.Lazure, F.Lombard, J.M.Nicod, L.Philippe, M.Quinson, P.Ramet, J.Roman, F.Rubi, S.Steer, F.Suter, and G.Utard. Scilab to Scilab//, the OURAGAN project. Research Report 2001-24, Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme (LIP), École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France, June 2001.
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[5] Sylvain Contassot-Vivier, Giosué Lo Bosco, and Chanh Dao Nguyen. Multiresolution approach for image processing. Technical report, Erasmus ICP-A-2007, Leiden, Pays-Bas, April 1996.
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[6] Sylvain Contassot-Vivier and Serge Miguet. Parallel visualization of textured-mapped digital elevation models. Technical Report RR1996-02, Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme (LIP), École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France, 1996.
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[7] T.Ludwig, R.Artiges, F.Avitabile, P.Baraduc, S.Contassot-Vivier O.Bournez, J.Cohen, E.Frejafon, E.Jeannot, G.Mounié N.D.Morelon, C.Perez, A.Pobla, C.Randriamaro, P.Rebreyend, M.Weber L-P. Tock, and J.V.Weizsäcker. The solitaire project -- finding solutions for the game in parallel. Technical Report TR1994-01, Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme (LIP), École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France, July 1994.
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Dissertations
[1] Sylvain Contassot-Vivier. Asynchronisme : Cadres continu et discret. Habiliation à Diriger des Recherches, Université de Franche-Comté, Belfort, France, December 2006.
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[2] Sylvain Contassot-Vivier. Calculs parallèles pour le traitement des images satellites. PhD thesis, École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France, February 1998.
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[3] Sylvain Contassot-Vivier. Visualisation parallèle de MNT texturés. Master's thesis, École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France, June 1995.
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[4] Sylvain Contassot-Vivier. Détection de collisions sur machine parallèle. Rapport de stage de maîtrise, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, August 1994.
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[5] Sylvain Contassot-Vivier. Reconstruction 3D de terrains texturés. Rapport de stage de licence, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France, August 1993.
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