Re: PhD defense of Andrei Vlad Sambra on Data ownership and Interop. in Decentralized Social SemWeb

Indeed, Good luck, Andrei! Have fun.

Tim

On 2013-11 -06, at 23:54, Olivier Berger wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> FYI, and as he's too shy to make the announcement himself, let me tell
> you that Andrei Vlad Sambra will be defending his PhD thesis on Tuesday
> November 19th 2013, at Telecom SudParis (Évry, France), on the suject of
> "Data Ownership and Interoperability for a Decentralized Social Semantic
> Web".
> 
> Let's wish him good luck for the final sprint ;-)
> 
> Below's a copy of the announcement (removed the abstract in french).
> 
> Best regards
> 
> --------------
> 
> J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter à ma soutenance de thèse de doctorat 
> intitulée: « La propriété des données et l'interopérabilité pour un Web
> sémantique social décentralisé ». 
> Cette thèse a été préparée sous la direction du Professeur Maryline 
> Laurent au sein de l'équipe R3S du laboratoire UMR5157 SAMOVAR.  Elle se 
> tiendra le mardi 19 novembre 2013 à 10h en salle A003. 
> 
> Composition du jury :
> Monsieur Josep Domingo Ferrer - Professeur HDR Universitat Rovira i 
> Virgili, Rapporteur
> Monsieur Fabien Gandon - Chargé de recherche INRIA, Rapporteur
> Monsieur Jean-Gabriel Ganascia - Professeur HDR LIP6 University Pierre 
> et Marie Curie, Examinateur
> Mousieur Yves Roudier - Maitre de conférences HDR - Eurecom, Examinateur
> Monsieur Olivier Berger - Ingénieur de recherche - Télécom SudParis, 
> Examinateur
> Madame Maryline Laurent - Professeur HDR - Télécom SudParis, Directrice 
> de thèse
> 
> Abstract:
> 
> Ensuring personal data ownership and interoperability for decentralized 
> social Web applications is currently a debated topic, especially when 
> taking into consideration the aspects of privacy and access control. 
> Since the user's data are such an important asset of the current 
> business models for most social Websites, companies have no incentive to 
> share data among each other or to offer users real ownership of their 
> own data in terms of control and transparency of data usage. We have 
> concluded therefore that it is important to improve the social Web in 
> such a way that it allows for viable business models while still being 
> able to provide increased data ownership and data interoperability 
> compared to the current situation.
> 
> To this regard, we have focused our research on three different topics: 
> identity, authentication and access control. First, we tackle the 
> subject of decentralized identity by proposing a new Web standard called 
> "Web Identity and Discovery" (WebID), which offers a simple and 
> universal identification mechanism that is distributed and openly 
> extensible. Next, we move to the topic of authentication where we 
> propose WebID-TLS, a decentralized authentication protocol that enables 
> secure, efficient and user friendly authentication on the Web by 
> allowing people to login using client certificates and without relying 
> on Certification Authorities. We also extend the WebID-TLS protocol, 
> offering delegated authentication and access delegation. Finally we 
> present our last contribution, the Social Access Control Service, which 
> serves to protect the privacy of Linked Data resources generated by 
> users (e.g. profile data, wall posts, conversations, etc.) by applying 
> two social metrics: the "social proximity distance" and "social  contexts".
> 
> Keywords: Web, decentralized identity, decentralized authentication, 
> privacy, access control, WebID, WebID-TLS
> 
> Cordialement,
> Andrei Sambra 
> -- 
> Olivier BERGER 
> http://www-public.telecom-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8
> Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF
> Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France)
> 
> 
>

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