CloudSpaces receives 2nd Best Poster award at the ESWC Summer School
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Hamza Harkous, Dr. Rameez Rahman, and Prof. Karl Aberer who all work at the Distributed Information Systems Laboratory (LSIR), received 2nd Best Poster award for their CloudSpaces privacy poster. There were 39 posters participating in the competition organized by the ESWC Summer School 2013.
The privacy of users' data has emerged as a critical issue in cloud computing. The CloudSpaces project advocates for a paradigm shift from application-centric to person-centric models where users will retake the control of their information. In particular, users retaking control of their information means that users can decide where their data is stored and how applications and users can access their information. For more information, visit CloudSpaces Website.
Hamza Harkous is a Ph.D. student at LSIR. His research focus is on improving users' privacy in cloud computing. The motivation behind this is the significant amount of sensitive data that is currently being shared by people through cloud providers. His work aims at the automatic quantification of the privacy risk of such data sharing, and, accordingly, provision of a suite of end-user-friendly solutions for mitigating this risk. This work is being done in collaboration with Dr. Rameez Rahman.
Dr. Rameez Rahman is a Postdoc at LSIR. In his research he has focused mainly on the overlap between computer science and the social sciences. Many ICT systems now are not merely computing systems but rather social systems used by people with different attitudes, needs and backgrounds. Therefore, any technical solution has to take models from fields as diverse as economics, psychology, evolutionary biology etc, into account. With CloudSpaces, we are focusing on privacy in the cloud, and Rameez seeks to bring in the social aspects of this problem to bear upon proposed solutions.
The goal of the ESWC Summer School is to provide intensive training and networking opportunities for Ph.D. students and junior researchers who might in time become the next leaders of the Linked Data/Semantic Web research area in general. The School is closely associated with the ESWC conference, which is a major venue for discussing the latest scientific results and technology innovations around semantic technologies.
