Jean-Marc Alliot

Jean-Marc Alliot
Born	Jean-Marc Alliot (1962-04-06) 6 April 1962 (age 61) Toulouse, France
Nationality	French
Citizenship	French
Education	Aerospace engineer
Alma mater	École polytechnique École nationale de l'aviation civile Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier University
Occupation(s)	Senior civil servant, aeronautical engineer, computer scientist
Known for	Senior civil servant, aeronautical engineer, computer scientist
Board member of	Institut de recherche en informatique de Toulouse (IRIT)
Website	http://www.alliot.fr/

Jean-Marc Alliot born April 6, 1962, in Toulouse, is a French engineer, senior civil servant and researcher.

Biography

Jean-Marc Alliot completed his baccalaureate at the Lycée Descartes in Rabat (Morocco) in 1980, then entered scientific preparatory classes at the Lycée privé Sainte-Geneviève in Versailles from where he joined the École polytechnique (promotion X1983). After leaving school, he chose the civil aviation corps (since assimilated into the bridges, waters and forests corps) and joined the École nationale de l'aviation civile (ENAC) as a training school. application from which he graduated in 1988. He then divided his career between academic activity strictly speaking and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC), and in particular the CENA of which he was the last head. ^[1]

At the start of his career, ^[2] from 1988 to 1993, he worked on the ERATO project, commissioned in 2016 under the name ERATO Environnement Électronique; ^[3] he was then director of research at ENAC from 1993 to 1997, where he reformed part of the courses and created the ENAC system engineer specialty (IENAC/S). In 1997, he created the global optimization laboratory, a structure common to CENA and ENAC, which works on problems of arithmetic traffic simulation (CATS), ^[4] trajectory prediction, sectorization, autonomous conflict resolution, centralized resolution. ^[5] This research work makes it possible to develop tools which are used within the framework of several national and international projects, including the SESAR project as part of the development of the new European control system. He has published ^[6] around eighty scientific articles or technical notes on these subjects. All of his work can be found in part in the book that he published with part of his team in 2016. He left the management of the LOG in 2007, to become deputy head and then head of the Research and Development department of the DSNA. He left DSNA in 2011, when the R&D department closed.

On the academic level, he first completed a doctorate in artificial intelligence from 1988 to 1992 at Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier University under the direction of Luis Farinas Del Cerro in the field of parallel logic programming, applied to non-classical logic (language of MOLOG programming) ; he has the opportunity to spend a stay at the Argonne national laboratory in Ross Overbeek's team, where he can use one of the first SIMD machines dedicated to AI, the Connection Machine. On this occasion, he also attended a presentation by David Goldberg, then at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who introduced him to genetic algorithms. In 1993 he published his first book, ^[7] Intelligence artificielle et Informatique théorique with Thomas Schiex, the first general public work to present genetic algorithms and neural networks in France. This book, republished in 2002 in an extended version with the collaborations of Pascal Brisset and Fredéric Garcia, is still sold, and is still used today in numerous undergraduate, master's and engineering school courses, as well as a regularly cited reference work.

In 1993, he stayed at the Center for Applied Mathematics at the École Polytechnique where he worked with Marc Schoenauer, and co-organized in 1994 the first Artificial Evolution conference, devoted to techniques that simulate natural evolution, then the first conference Artificial Evolution in 1995. He supported his authorization to direct research at the INPT in 1996 on stochastic optimization techniques, with David Goldberg and Amedeo Odoni as rapporteurs. He worked with his team on different optimization techniques for more than twenty years. ^[8]

He also works in the field of game programming, particularly Reversi and chess. He develops a Reversi program, Otage, whose learning of the coefficients of the evaluation function is done by evolutionary algorithms. But it is above all his work on the evaluation of chess players which attracts the attention of the scientific, national. ^[9]

His latest research work focuses on bioinformatics. ^[10]

On May 15, 2018, he published with 22 other scientists a column in Le Monde ^[11]

Bibliography

• Nicolas Durand, David Gianazza, Jean-Baptiste Gotteland et Jean-Marc Alliot, Metaheuristics for Air Traffic Management, John Wiley & Sons, coll. « Computer Engineering Series / Métaheuristics set » (no 2), 2016, 214 p. (ISBN 978-1-84821-810-9, lire en ligne [archive]) .
• Jean-Marc Alliot and Thomas Schiex, Intelligence Artificielle et Informatique Théorique, Toulouse, Cepaduès, 1993, 520 p. (ISBN 2-85428-324-4).
• Jean-Marc Alliot, Thomas Schiex, Pascal Brisset and Frédérick Garcia, Intelligence Artificielle et Informatique Théorique, 2nd edition, Toulouse, Cepaduès, 2002, 543 p. (ISBN 2-85428-578-6).
• Jean-Marc Alliot, Evelyne Lutton, Edmund Ronald and Marc Schoenauer, Evolution Artificielle 94 : 20-23 septembre 1994, ENAC, Toulouse, Toulouse, Cepaduès, 1995, 238 p. (ISBN 2-85428-411-9).
• Jean-Marc Alliot, Evelyne Lutton, Edmund Ronald and Marc Schoenauer, Artificial Evolution 95, Springer Verlag, coll. « Lecture Notes in Computer Science » (no 1063), 1996 (ISBN 3-540-61108-8).
• Patrick Siarry, Jean-Marc Alliot, Sébastien Aupetit, Sana Ben Hamida and Ilhem Boussaïd, Métaheuristiques, Paris, Eyrolles, coll. « Algorithmes », 2014, 515 p. (ISBN 978-2-212-13929-7).

References

1. Les amis du CENA
2. ERATO
3. Environnement Electronique ERATO
4. PEUT-ON SUPPRIMER LE CONTROLE AU SOL ?
5. Air Traffic Control Quarterly
6. Alliot,Jean-marc
7. Jean-Marc Alliot
8. Finding and Proving the Optimum: Cooperative Stochastic and Deterministic Search
9. Qui est le meilleur joueur d’échecs de tous les temps? Un Toulousain a la réponse
10. Temporal Logic Modeling of Biological Systems
11. « Les grandes écoles d’ingénieurs n’ont pas vocation à imiter les grandes écoles commerciales »