Publications
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International Journals
NEW! E. Molina, M. Fiacchini, S. Cerf, B. Robu. React to the Worst: Lightweight and proactive protection of location privacy. in IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 7, pp. 2371-2376, 2023, doi: 10.1109/LCSYS.2023.3286989. To be presented at the 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2023)
NEW! Sophie Cerf, Bogdan Robu, Nicolas Marchand, Sara Bouchenak. Privacy protection control for mobile apps users. Control Engineering Practice, vol. 134, 2023, doi.org/10.1016/j.conengprac.2023.105456. pdf
Ghina Dandachi, Sophie Cerf, Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul, Abdelkader Outtagarts, Eric Rutten. A robust control-theory-based exploration strategy in deep reinforcement learning for virtual network embedding. Computer Networks, vol. 218, 2022, DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2022.109366
Zilong Zhao, Sophie Cerf, Bogdan Robu, Nicolas Marchand. Event-Based Control for Online Training of Neural Networks. IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS), vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 773-778, July 2020, DOI: 10.1109/LCSYS.2020.2981984
Sophie Cerf, Sara Bouchenak, Bogdan Robu, Nicolas Marchand, Vincent Primault, Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Antoine Boutet, Lydia Y. Chen. Automatic Privacy and Utility Preservation of Mobility Data: A Nonlinear Model-Based Approach. IEEE Transaction on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). 2018, DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2018.2884470
Reviewed international conferences
NEW! S. Cerf, E. Rutten. Combining neural networks and control: potentialities, patterns and perspectives. IFAC World Congress, July 2023, Yokohama, Japan. slides video
NEW! E. Molina, M. Fiacchini, S. Cerf, B. Robu. Optimal privacy protection of mobility data: a predictive approach. IFAC World Congress, July 2023, Yokohama, Japan.
Ismail Hawila, Sophie Cerf, Raphaël Bleuse, Swann Perarnau, Éric Rutten. Adaptive Power Control for Sober High Performance Computing. 6th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA 2022), Aug. 2022, Trieste, Italy.
Sophie Cerf, Raphaël Bleuse, Valentin Reis, Swann Perarnau and Eric Rutten. Sustaining Performance While Reducing Energy Consumption: A Control Theory Approach. 27th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2021). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer. Aug. 2021, Lisbon, Portugal virtual.
Sophie Cerf, Raphaël Bleuse, Valentin Reis, Swann Perarnau and Eric Rutten. Artifact and instructions to generate experimental results for the Euro-Par 2021 paper: ”Sustaining Performance While Reducing Energy Consumption: A Control Theory Approach” (Euro-Par Artifacts 2021). https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14754468
Zilong Zhao, Sophie Cerf, Robert Birke, Bogdan Robu, Sara Bouchenak, Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Lydia Y. Chen. Robust Anomaly Detection on Unreliable Data. 49th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2019), June 2019, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Zilong Zhao, Sophie Cerf, Bogdan Robu, Nicolas Marchand. Feedback Control for Online Training of Neural Networks. 3rd IEEE Conference On Control Technology And Applications (CCTA 2019), Aug. 2019, Hong Kong, China.
Sophie Cerf, Bogdan Robu, Nicolas Marchand, Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Sara Bouchenak. A Control-Theoric Approach for Location Privacy in Mobile Applications 2nd IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA 2018), Aug. 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Sophie Cerf, Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Sara Bouchenak, Nicolas Marchand, Bogdan Robu. Dynamic Modeling of Location Privacy Protection Mechanisms 18th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS 2018), June 2018, Madrid, Spain.
Sophie Cerf, Vincent Primault, Antoine Boutet, Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Robert Birke, Sara Bouchenak, Lydia Y. Chen, Nicolas Marchand, Bogdan Robu. PULP: Achieving Privacy and Utility Trade-off in User Mobility Data 36th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2017), Sept 2017, Hong Kong, SAR China.
Sophie Cerf, Mihaly Berekmeri, Bogdan Robu, Nicolas Marchand, Sara Bouchenak, Ioan Landau. Adaptive Feedforward and Feedback Control for Cloud Services. IFAC World Congress, Jul 2017, Toulouse, France.
Sophie Cerf, Mihaly Berekmeri, Bogdan Robu, Nicolas Marchand, Sara Bouchenak. Cost Function based Event Triggered Model Predictive Controllers - Application to Big Data Cloud Services. 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2016), Dec 2016, Las Vegas, United States.
Other international publications (posters, short papers, workshops)
Sophie Cerf, Raphaël Bleuse, Valentin Reis, Swann Perarnau and Eric Rutten, Sustaining Performance While Reducing Energy Consumption : A Control Theory Approach Abstract at the Conférence francophone d'informatique en Parallélisme, Architecture et Système (COMPAS 2021), Jul 2021, Lyon, France.
Sophie Cerf, Robert Birke, Lydia Chen. Duo Learning for Classifications with Noisy Labels. Continual Learning Workshop, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2018), Dec 2018, Montréal, Canada.
Sophie Cerf, Mihaly Berekmeri, Bogdan Robu, Nicolas Marchand, Sara Bouchenak. Adaptive Optimal Control of MapReduce Performance, Availability and Costs. 11th International Workshop on Feedback Computing co-located with the 13th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2016), Jul 2016, Wurzburg, Germany.
Sophie Cerf, Mihaly Berekmeri, Bogdan Robu, Nicolas Marchand, Sara Bouchenak. Towards Control of MapReduce Performance and Availability. Fast Abstract in the 46th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2016), Jun 2016, Toulouse, France.
Sophie Cerf, Bogdan Robu, Nicolas Marchand, Antoine Boutet, Vincent Primault, Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Sara Bouchenak. Toward an Easy Configuration of Location Privacy Protection Mechanisms. Poster at ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware conference, Dec 2016, Trente, Italy.
Sophie Cerf, Mihaly Berekmeri, Nicolas Marchand, Sara Bouchenak, Bogdan Robu. Adaptive Modelling and Control in Distributed Systems. PhD Forum 34th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2015), Sep 2015, Montreal, Canada.
Reviewed national conferences
Sophie Cerf, Vincent Primault, Antoine Boutet, Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Sara Bouchenak, Bogdan Robu, Nicolas Marchand. Données de mobilité : protection de la vie privée vs. utilité des données Conférence francophone d’informatique en parallélisme, architecture et système ComPAS, Jun 2017, Sophia Antipolis, France.
PhD Thesis
Defense: 16 May 2019 at GIPSA-lab, Univ. Grenoble-Alpes, France
Jury Members: Vana Kalogeraki (Ass. Prof, Athens University); Karl-Eric Arzen (Prof., Lund Univiversity); Eric Kerrigan (Reader, Imperial College London); Sara Bouchenak (Prof., INSA Lyon, LIRIS); Nicolas Marchand (Prof, GIPSA-lab, Univ. Grenoble Alps); Bogdan Robu (Ass. Prof, GIPSA-lab, Univ. Grenoble Alps)
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