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

Go Andrei Go! :-)

On 11/6/2013 10:54 AM, 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


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