GDD is a research group of LINA, University of Nantes. GDD stands for "Gestion de Données Distribuées" that can be translated to "Distributed Data Management". GDD is mainly focused on distributed data management in large scale distributed systems. GDD has expertise in Distributed Systems, Distributed Collaborative Systems, Distributed Database systems and Web of Data. Our topics includes :

• Fundations of distributed system ; distributed algorithms, consistency, replication, availability, fault-tolerance, scalability
• Privacy and confidentiality in distributed data management
• Distributed Data Management in Web of Data : data integration, social semantic web, linked data.

These topics are present in the following scientific domains :

• Distributed and Parallel Computing (ICDCS, PODC),
• Databases (VLDB,SIGMOD),
• WWW (WWW,ISWC). GDD is member of Labex Comin Labs. The CominLabs federate the best teams from Bretagne and Nantes regions in the broad area of telecommunications, from electronic devices to wide area distributed applications “over the top”.