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

On 6 November 2013 16:54, Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@telecom-sudparis.eu
> 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 ;-)
>

Awesome, good luck! :)


>
> 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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