Projects and Collaborations

The Computer Science and Intelligent Systems department participates in the scientific communities of the Institut Mines-Télécom, particularly in the following fields:

  • data analytics and Artificial Intelligence;
  • smart mobility;
  • networks and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Current projects

ENFIELD – Projet Horizon Europe

The ENFIELD Project aims to advance research in Artificial Intelligence, particularly in the sectors of health, energy, the industry of the future, and space, by attracting the best talent, technologies, and resources from world-class research and industry players in Europe. ENFIELD will conduct high-level research activities in synchronization with industrial and societal challenges to strengthen the European Union’s competitive position in the field of AI and create a significant socio-economic impact for the benefit of citizens.

ENFIELD will foster the emergence of a dynamic European network composed of 30 partners from 18 countries, including organizations of excellence in education and research, large companies, SMEs, as well as representatives from the public sector.

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Partners

Contacts

  • Participants
    • Victor Charpenay,
    • Guillaume Muller,
    • Mansour Mayaki

News

FITNESS – Projet PEPR

The FITNESS project aims to study elementary IoT blocks for their integration into vertical applications. Three areas are covered: (i) Massive IoT, (ii) Industry 4.0, and (iii) Connected Transport & Vehicular Applications. FITNESS studies the fundamental constraints of these applications, most of which are transverse to the three areas: energy consumption and resource allocation (preeminent for massively distributed sensors), information security and service guarantee (particularly for the industrial sector), latency, and robustness (critical in the vehicular sector). Special attention is also paid to the coexistence between 5G and post-5G protocols and networks.

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Partners

  • CEA-Leti, CEA-List
  • CNRS and related establishments: IETR, IRIT, L2S, XLIM, INS2I
  • IMT-Atlantique, IMT-Telecom Paris, IMT-Nord Europe, IMT-MSE, Eurecom
  • INRIA and related establishments: AOI, FUN, TRIBE, AGORA

Contacts

  • Participant
    • Philippe Jaillon

News

  • Muscler les réseaux IoT du futur
    « Développer des réseaux capables de s’adapter dynamiquement aux besoins de l’IoT massif, de l’IoT Industriel et des transports connectés, tel est l’objectif du projet FITNESS. Le projet s’appuie sur l’expertise de plusieurs écoles de l’IMT pour faire face aux défis … Lire la Suite →

MaestrIoT – Projet ANR

Multi-Agent Trust Decision Process for the Internet of Things

The deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) systems in open and dynamic environments raises several issues related to the reliability of their components. It is unrealistic to assume that every hardware or software component is reliable, trustworthy, and high-performing in all circumstances, particularly in extreme weather conditions.
The MaestrIoT project will address these issues by proposing an algorithmic framework aimed at guaranteeing trust in a multi-agent system managing the sensors and actuators of a cyber-physical environment. Trust management must be ensured at every stage, from perception to decision-making, while integrating information exchanges between Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
These theoretical contributions will be applied in two priority areas: Industry 4.0 and Cooperative Connected and Automated Mobility. Demonstrators will be developed, both in full simulation and through the hybridization of simulated and real platforms.
The network of connected devices, also known as the Internet of Things (IoT), has seen significant development in recent years and is expected to grow further with the arrival of 5G. IoT applications are numerous and varied. They can now be deployed in open and dynamic environments composed of heterogeneous objects. In this type of environment, intelligent devices must discover other devices located within their communication range on the fly, as well as the information and services they offer. They can also receive requests from these objects.

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Partners

Contacts

  • Participants
    • Xavier Serpaggi
    • Victor Charpenay
    • Nesrine Hafiene

News

  •  Maestriot : au coeur de la recherche sur les objets connectés
    Le projet Maestriot (Multi-Agent Trust Decision Process for the Internet of Things) marque ce début d’été par de nouvelles contributions, avec la présentation de plusieurs articles scientifiques dans des conférences internationales. Ce projet, soutenu par l’ANR, auquel participe Institut Fayol dans le … Continue reading →
  • Réunion plénière du projet à l’INSA Rouen
    Une réunion plénière du projet ANR MaestrIoT a eu lieu mercredi 28 juin 2023 à l’INSA Rouen Normandie. Les coordinateurs scientifiques et des participants des partenaires académiques du projet étaient présents pour les laboratoires LITIS, LIMOS, et LCIS et à distance pour … Continue reading →
  • Réunion de travail pour le projet ANR MaestrIoT
    Ce 18 mai, se tenait la réunion du projet ANR MaestrIoT qui réunissait l’ensemble des partenaires académiques. L’Institut Fayol était représenté par Flavien Balbo, responsable du département Informatique et systèmes intelligents et membre du LIMOS, Xavier Serpaggi Chercheur en informatique … Continue reading →
  • Lancement du projet ANR Maestriot
    Ce mardi 8 mars, les partenaires du projet ANR Maestriot se sont donné rendez-vous à Mines Saint-Etienne pour la réunion de lancement. Au programme de cette journée chargée, la définition du cahier des charges pour atteindre des objectifs de recherche ambitieux … Continue reading →

IMTFor5G+ – AMI Skills and Professions of the Future

5G systems and, more generally, all wireless communication technologies are now in common use and will spread across many sectors, including industry, transport, healthcare, and the automotive industry. The need for training in these fields is therefore vital. The IMTFor5G+ project aims to renew the initial and continuing education offer on 5G and its evolutions by ensuring it meets the needs of the industrial and economic world in terms of both purely technical and economic and societal aspects.
IMTFor5G+ aims to deploy a sovereign offer of degree and certificate programmes across the entire national territory, as close as possible to companies, with the following highlights:

• Working with partners to define skill requirements;
• Adapting to everyone’s schedule by developing online educational resources;
• Creating initial training (engineer manager), specialization (dual skill), and continuing education (updating) pathways combining technology, systems, usage, and economics;
• Training actors capable of taking energy sobriety challenges into account;
• Raising awareness and attracting talent through actions aimed at the general public, middle school, high school, and university students, and their teachers;
• Raising awareness among the leaders of user companies, SMEs, and mid-caps, and training their staff.

Dates

  • 2024-2027

Partners

IMT Atlantique, IMT Business School, IMT Nord Europe, Mines Saint-Etienne, Télécom Paris, Télécom SudParis, Eurécom, French Telecoms Federation (FFT), Cap Digital (competitiveness cluster), Alliance Industrie du Futur (AIF), Orange, Weaccess Group SA, Alsatis SAS, Infovista SAS, NXP Semiconductors France, Ericsson France SAS, Thales SA, Clever Cloud SAS.

Fayol Contacts

  • Participant
    • Xavier Serpaggi
    • Khadim Ba

LoireConnecTID

The project aims to address the major challenges of evolving Public Services while meeting ecological transition requirements. Furthermore, the recent health crisis highlighted the need to diversify service offers for people losing their autonomy, to extend home care through housing adaptation, or the detection of weak signals for better care.

Today, the current energy crisis makes it necessary to explore any solution capable of optimizing the resources required for heating.

LoireConnecTID addresses two major territorial development challenges:

Improving the organization of public structures: through better use of data, public actors are able to optimize their internal operations in terms of efficiency, savings, and limiting their carbon footprint.

Developing and diversifying services offered to users: the tools implemented as part of the project will contribute to expanding the range of services offered by various public actors.

Partners

Loire Department, the Loire Intercommunal Energy Syndicate – Energy Territory (SIEL), the social landlord Loire-Habitat, the Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne (EMSE) in partnership with Télécom Saint-Etienne, the Regional University Polytechnic Institute (IRUP), as well as the companies U.R.B.S. and QARNOT.

Fayol Contact

Sustainable Development Goal

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FIAURA – Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes – Innovative Training – France 2030

This project aims to build a coordinated approach to implement the AI training that regional actors require and cannot find in the existing offer.

This approach includes a study of market needs for AI training, common training engineering, a self-assessment tool for AI knowledge levels to guide companies toward FIAURA training adapted to their needs, the establishment of shared AI training locations in Clermont-Ferrand, Grenoble, and Lyon, and a label certifying the quality of the training.

Partners

Clermont Auvergne University, Mines Saint-Étienne, ENS de Lyon

Fayol Contact

  • Participant
    • Fabien Badeig

SeReCo

SeReCo is a doctoral school bringing together researchers from several prestigious institutions whose main objective is to explore the synergies between Web science and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The focus is on:

  • Semantic technologies allowing machines to reason about digital content available on the Web.
  • Coordination technologies allowing machines to collaborate effectively on a growing set of deployed services.

The close integration of semantic, reasoning, and coordination technologies is expected to foster innovations in various fields, such as:

  • Cyber-physical systems.
  • Enterprise information integration.
  • Sensor networks.
  • Manufacturing and Industry 4.0.
  • Smart cities.

This programme aims to train researchers capable of pushing technological boundaries while meeting the needs of modern societies.

Research Areas

  • Trust in multi-agent systems.
  • Semantic data modeling: linked data, ontologies, annotations.
  • Distributed data management and semantic integration.
  • Reasoning in open and distributed environments.
  • Modeling and programming based on multi-agent systems.
  • Decision-making in open and distributed systems.
  • Coordination models and technologies for autonomous agents.
  • Self-organizing systems.
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Partners

FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg University, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the University of St. Gallen, Mines Saint-Étienne, and Jean Monnet University

Fayol Contact

  • Participants
    • Flavien Balbo, Victor Charpenay, Maxime Lefrançois, Gustavo Nardin, Mouloud Iferroudjene, Zehor Hounas, Miriam Zawadi Muchika, Elena Yan, Anas Azdad.

News

  • Programme SeReCo : l’Institut Fayol au cœur d’une coopération doctorale franco-allemande renouvelée
    Les 18 et 19 mars 2026, l’Institut Fayol a participé à la réunion annuelle du collège doctoral franco-allemand SeReCo, organisée cette année à Nuremberg. Financé par l’Université franco-allemande (UFA), le programme SeReCo (Semantics, Reasoning, and Coordination) vise à renforcer la coopération … Lire la Suite →
  • Retour sur le séminaire du collège doctoral SeReCo
    Les 17 et 18 juillet 2023, le deuxième séminaire du collège doctoral SeReCo a eu lieu au Forschungscampus Waischenfeld, Fraunhofer-Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen, près de Nuremberg, organisé par la Chaire des systèmes d’information techniques. SeReCo est une école doctorale regroupant … Lire la Suite →
  • L’Institut Fayol honoré d’accueillir le 1er séminaire du collège doctoral SeReCo
    Ce 24 mai, se déroulait le premier séminaire du collège doctoral SeReCo (semantics, reasoning and coordination) organisé par Victor Charpenay, Enseignant-chercheur à l’Institut Fayol de Mines Saint-Etienne, membre du laboratoire d’informatique, de modélisation et d’optimisation des systèmes (LIMOS) et de l’Institut … Lire la Suite →
  • Workshop IRIXYS ce jeudi 2 décembre à l’INSA Lyon
    Victor Charpenay, Enseignant-chercheur à l’Institut Fayol de Mines Saint-Etienne, membre du laboratoire d’informatique, de modélisation et d’optimisation des systèmes (LIMOS) et de l’Institut Mines-Télécom, participe au workshop IRIXYS ce jeudi 2 décembre à l’INSA Lyon, en tant qu’alumnus. IRIXYS est … Lire la Suite →
  • L’université franco-allemande soutient la recherche en Intelligence Artificielle de Mines-Saint Etienne
    L’université franco-allemande (UFA) accorde un financement au collège doctoral franco-allemand SeReCo (Semantics, Reasoning, and Coordination) pour la période 2022-2025. Les partenaires impliqués sont : l’Institut Henri Fayol de Mines Saint-Etienne et l’université Jean Monnet côté français, l’université Friedrich-Alexander d’Erlangen-Nuremberg et … Lire la Suite →

Train Cyber Expert (TSE) – AMI Skills and Professions of the Future

The TCE (Train Cyber Expert) project led by the Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT), winner of the AMI Skills and Professions of the Future on the Cybersecurity priority of the France 2030 Investment Plan, was officially launched on June 16 at the Institut Mines-Télécom in Palaiseau. The TCE project is coordinated by Professor Hervé Debar, Director of Research and Doctoral Training at Télécom SudParis. It aims, over four years, to develop a national initial and professional continuing education system through the construction of educational resources (digital content and professional technological platforms) organized by skill blocks, with a view to modularity, reusability, and skill-centered pedagogy leading to certifications in the fields of Cybersecurity.

Dates

  • 2023-2027
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Partners

Institut Mines Télécom, Eurecom, CEA Paris, CentraleSupélec, Paris-Saclay University, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, National Frequency Agency, Micro-Packs, GIMELEC, Stormshield, WALLIX

Fayol Contact

  • Participant
    • Jean-Christophe Touvet

Key Themes

Cybersecurity, work-study training, distance learning, smart building, vehicle, hardware security, Internet of Things security.

Sustainable Development Goal

MACMIA – AMI Skills and Professions of the Future

MACMIA aims to diversify and massify the AI and Data Science training offer in the engineering and management schools of IMT, ESIGELEC, the University of Technology of Troyes (UTT), as well as several campuses of excellence for professions and qualifications (CMQE).

The project aims to organize a training sector for technicians, engineers, and dual-skill managers in the field of “AI & Industry of the Future,” with a range of training offers from Bachelor’s to PhD levels.

It also seeks to place humans at the heart of digital transformation and the automation of our activities, notably through a transdisciplinary approach for training cognitive engineers.

This project covers eight regions in France, relying on academic and economic networks for a significant territorial impact. It will be deployed in cooperation with academic actors and economic partners.

The project aims to contribute to the sovereignty of the French Data and AI sector right from the training stage.

Partners

Institut Mines-Télécom, lead schools involved: IMT Mines Alès, IMT Atlantique, IMT Nord Europe, Mines Saint-Étienne, Institut Mines-Télécom Business School, ESIGELEC, University of Technology of Troyes (UTT), Campus of Professions and Excellence Qualification Industry of the Future, Campus of Professions and Qualification Design and Industry of the Future, Campus of Professions and Excellence Qualification Aeronautics – Pays-de-la-Loire, Cap Digital competitiveness cluster, CIMES competitiveness cluster, Cité de l’IA / MEDEF Lille Métropole, Festo, Valeo, Assystem, Cisco Systems, Capgemini engineering, Carrefour, ESII, Cilcare, OPCO Atlas.

Fayol Contact

ACCELER-AI – Projet ANR

The objective of ACCELER-AI is to enable the adaptive co-construction of ethics in and for a sustainable intelligent system meeting the requirements presented below.

The project leaders start from the observation that AI applications can have a beneficial/harmful impact on humans and that a debate exists on how to integrate ethical capabilities into them. This encourages researchers to develop systems compatible with ethical values, moving from “ethics by design” to “ethics through design” offering the capacity to produce ethical behavior through the integration of ethical reasoning and learning.

To do this, non-functional requirements must be met:

  • Interoperability: dealing with the inherent heterogeneity of systems;
  • Sustainability: dealing with the long-term evolution of intelligent systems and their environment;
  • Reliability: social acceptability.

This project raises 3 challenges: Human-centered AI: how the system achieves its goal while following ethical principles and human values; Safe AI: how to ensure the system operates within specified limits while being autonomous to learn ethics and adapt in response to changing context/goals; Adaptive AI: adaptation both technically (openness) and societally (lifelong learning, evolution of expectations of accepted moral values/norms).

ACCELER-AI proposes multidisciplinary research and adopts a human-centered perspective to investigate the co-construction of “ethical models” by dynamically coupling 3 adaptive processes: 1) injection of “human ethical data” via continuous non-invasive “Human-Agent” interaction; 2) lifelong human-machine mutual learning of adaptive ethical behavior; 3) normative regulation process to delimit ethical learning.

Partners

Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, The Laboratory of Informatics in Image and Information Systems (LIRIS) UMR 5205, project coordinator, Mines Saint-Étienne / Laboratory of Informatics, Modeling and Optimization of Systems (LIMOS) and the Catholic University of Lyon.

Contacts

  • Participants
    • Gustavo Nardin
    • Flavien Balbo
Publications

ACCORD – Projet Horizon Europe

The ACCORD project is a three-year European project funded by the call HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-10: Digital permits and compliance checks for buildings and infrastructure (AI). It involves 21 partners from 11 countries. It is coordinated by VTT, Finland.

The objective of ACCORD is to digitize permit and compliance check processes using BIM and other data sources to improve the productivity and quality of design and construction processes, support the design of climate-neutral buildings, and advance a sustainable built environment, in line with the EU Green Deal and the New European Bauhaus initiative. These digitized processes must be human-centered, transparent, and cost-effective for permit applicants and authorities. Another objective is to develop and integrate technical solutions to automate building compliance checks in their design, construction, and renovation/demolition phases. All this will be based on open and neutral data exchange standards. ACCORD will develop a semantic framework for European digital building permit processes, regulations, data, and tools. This framework will allow for the formalization of rules and the integration of existing compliance tools as microservices. Solutions and tools will be developed, offering consistency, interoperability, and reliability with national regulatory frameworks, processes, and standards. The solutions are implemented and demonstrated in construction projects in various EU regulatory contexts: UK, Finland, Estonia, Germany, and Spain. ACCORD supports the work programme’s CSOs, expected results, and impacts by 1) developing open APIs allowing local authorities to choose their digital services without lock-in, 2) automating the verification of environmental regulations (CO2 emissions, LCA, and circular economy) by developing machine-readable rules, thereby driving the digital and green transition, and involving stakeholders through co-creation, and 3) creating information guidelines for structured data models to increase building value and reduce operating costs, and 4) providing the ACCORD open framework based on microservices allowing companies to connect and develop solutions resulting in a scalable, sustainable, and flexible permit ecosystem.

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Partners

Contacts

  • Participants
    • Mihaela Juganaru
    • Antoine Zimmermann

News

  • L’Institut Henri Fayol bien représenté à la troisième Assemblée Générale du projet européen ACCORD
    Le 16 et 17 avril derniers, Maxime Lefrançois et Mihaela Juganaru, enseignants-chercheurs à l’Institut Henri Fayol, ont représenté Mines Saint-Etienne lors de la troisième Assemblée Générale annuelle du projet européen ACCORD, qui s’est tenue à Barcelone. Ce projet vise à … Lire la Suite →
  • Le projet européen ACCORD tient sa réunion de rentrée
    La semaine dernière se tenait la réunion des partenaires du projet ACCORD à Berlin. Maxime Lefrançois et Antoine Zimmermann, chercheurs au département Informatique et systèmes intelligents de l’institut Henri Fayol, étaient présents à Berlin pour participer aux échanges et partages … Lire la Suite →
  • Le projet européen ACCORD a ouvert sa chaine Youtube
    Dans un premier temps, cette chaîne présente les fondements de ce projet européen HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-10 financé sur trois ans qui a débuté en septembre 2022. Il implique 21 partenaires de 11 pays et permet notamment de financer un poste de post-doc de … Lire la Suite →
  • L’Institut Henri Fayol fier de participer au lancement du projet européen ACCORD
    La semaine dernière, Rita Lavikka, chercheure au Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd en Finlande (VTT) et coordinatrice du projet ACCORD, accueillait les 21 partenaires du projet européen venus de 11 pays. A cette occasion, Antoine Zimmermann et Mihaela Juganaru-Mathieu, chercheurs … Lire la Suite →

NAIMAN – ANR Project

Normative Artificial Intelligence for regulating MANufacturing

The digital transformation of manufacturing industries provides a nurturing environment for the adoption of more autonomous and (self-)adaptive technologies that can quickly and flexibly respond to endogenous and exogenous changes, while being transparent and complying with sustainable regulations. This modern manufacturing industrial setting is organized in three layers: (i) physical layer: access to the physical system, (ii) knowledge layer: information to manage and control the industrial processes, and (iii) application layer: an environment for automating these industrial processes. NAIMAN focuses on the last two layers, assuming that the heterogeneous physical systems on the physical layer are accessible via a uniform interface. In this complex ecosystem, industrial process automation is tackled with the use of autonomous and intelligent agents that interact with each other on the application layer. In the knowledge layer, we target the domain knowledge representing the normative aspects (i.e., norms and sanctions) regulating these industrial settings and processes. Norms represent the expected behavior of agents. We advocate that they are a rich and flexible concept for regulating manufacturing systems. Sanctions, as reactions to any violation of or compliance with these expected behaviors, are used to balance the agents’ autonomy and the overall manufacturing system’s control. The knowledge layer allows agents to reason about production capabilities and capacities together with regulations to decide how and where to carry out their production tasks. The explicit normative representation and reasoning enable agents to both adapt the execution of industrial processes to unexpected situations and conditions, and to transparently and intelligibly express their decisions to a human operator. The main goal of the project is therefore to develop technologies demonstrated on industrial platforms that enable agents to operate in heterogeneous and dynamic industrial settings and reason about normative aspects to enhance the flexibility, resilience, trustworthiness, and sustainability of manufacturing systems.

Dates

  • 2023 – 2027
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Partners

Contact

  • Participants
    • Olivier Boissier
    • Elena Yan

Key Themes

Normative Multi-Agent Systems; Smart Manufacturing; Digital Transformation; Industry of the Future

Sustainable Development Goal

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Partners

Industrial and institutional partners

International academic partners

Research