The 19th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems will be held in Rennes, France, at the Inria Conference center.
Rennes is the 2nd-largest digital hub in France (after Paris), and the largest education and research center in the West of France. With over 60,000 students on a population of 250,000, Rennes is a peaceful yet vibrant city. It is also an internationally-recognized high-tech R&D center in cloud computing, networks and media.
Rennes is the home of IRISA, which is the largest public research center for Informatics in France (750+ employees including full-time researchers, professors, postdocs, engineers, PhD students, and support staff).
Rennes is also a major center for industrial R&D with several major companies having a significant fraction of their R&D located here: Orange, Alcatel-Lucent, Technicolor, Thales, Canon, Thomson etc. Hundreds of high-tech SMEs, start-up incubators, etc, complement this ecosystem.
Accomodation
Accommodation is not arranged by the conference organizers. Each participant is invited to do their booking individually at one of the many downtown hotels of Rennes. For your accommodation, you may book a hotel in the southern or northern city center, as you will never be far from a metro stop or a bus stop.
The city of Rennes is well served by public transport with its 2 metros and numerous bus lines making Beaulieu campus accessible in 10 minutes with the new metro line (B) and up to 20-25 minutes by bus. Suggested itineraries to reach Beaulieu campus from the city center are detailed on the Venue page. A list of accommodation options is available at the Tourist Office Site of Rennes.
Inria Conference center
Location :
The Beaulieu university campus. This is the main scientific campus in Rennes, which is located just outside of the city center. It is very easily reachable by bus (10-15 minutes ride from the city center), and it provides excellent infrastructure for both the workshops and the main conference at only symbolic cost (or even possibly entirely free).
Conference center
The conference will be organized at INRIA’s conference center. The center frequently hosts international conferences (among many others: TTL 2015, OPODIS 2015, DASIP 2016, ICFCA 2017, Middleware 2018). The facilities include an auditorium (capacity: 240 seats) with state-of-the-art audio-visual equipment: projector, sound system, possibilities for videoconferences and/or for filming the presentations, etc. The conference center also includes a reception space for coffee breaks as well as three smaller rooms (capacity: 50 persons each) which may be used separately or joined together for lunches, poster sessions, etc. A high-quality Wi-Fi network covers the full center: European academics will have access to their familiar Eduroam network, and individual credentials will be given to other attendees.
