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

On 11 November 2013 10:41, Andrei Sambra <andrei.sambra@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you all, I'm looking forward to it!
>

How did it go? :)


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> Andrei
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> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org> wrote:
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>> Indeed, Good luck, Andrei! Have fun.
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>> Tim
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>> On 2013-11 -06, at 23:54, Olivier Berger wrote:
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>> > 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
>> >
>> > --------------
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>> > 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:
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>> > 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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