INRIA is the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control. It is a scientific and technological institute operating under the dual authority of the Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Industry.

USTL is the Science and Technology University of Lille (in french Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille) located in the north of France.

LIFL (in french Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale de Lille) is the USTL’s computer science laboratory and is linked to the CNRS (in french Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique).

The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) is a public basic-research organization that defines its mission as producing knowledge and making it available to society. The CNRS has 26,000 employees (among which 11,600 researchers and 14,400 engineers and technical and administrative staff). Its budget amounts to 2,214 million euros for the year 2004. The 1,260 CNRS service and research units are spread throughout the country and cover all fields of research.

IRCICA is a research insitute which aims to promote the development of hardware and software components for advanced information and communication behaviors (in french Institut de Recherche sur les Composants logiciels et matériels pour l’Information et la Communication Avancée).

Europe’s leading telecommunications R&D center, France Telecom R&D (ex CNET) contributes to creating value for the Group. Its transversal, decentralized structure facilitates coordination between France Télécom’s market strategy and the products developed.

The objective of EDF research is to make your home a place where electricity continually guarantees you greater comfort. We study your lifestyles so that we can best adapt EDF services to your daily habits. We look for concrete solutions to optimise your energy consumption. We are also preparing your energy autonomy for the future. Each of our projects contributes to this strategy.

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Established in France more than a century ago, THALES Group is a global electronics company serving Aerospace, Defence, and Information Technology markets worldwide. THALES is contributing to and using OpenCCM in some of its internal research projects.

CEA is the French Atomic Energy Commission.