SCRC Summer Schools

On July 17, 2017 the SCRC Summer Schools started successfully, in Limassol, Cyprus.

There are two summer schools running concurrently. These are ‘Social Computing in the Big Data Era’ and ‘Usable Security and Privacy in Online Social Networks’, within the scope of the EU-funded projects NOTRE and ENCASE, respectively.

All participants who successfully complete the summer school will receive a Summer School Certificate of Attendance (6 ECTS) from the Cyprus University of Technology.

We are looking forward to welcoming you this Monday 17/7/17 at the SCRC Summer Schools. Here is some information in anticipation of your arrival.

If you have booked a room at the university (which is in close proximity to the summer school classrooms), please contact Savvas Zinonos (tel: +357 99 533419) upon your arrival to get a key and be shown to your room. The address is: Anexartisias Street, Limassol, Cyprus

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We will all meet for registrations on Monday 17/07 at 08:00 at the Photography Lab which can be found at the following address: Vasiliou Makedonas, Limassol, Cyprus

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We will have our SCRC banners out that will show you the way

ZAPPION Vasiliou Makedonos, Limassol, Cyprus

The Social Computing Research Centre at the Cyprus University of Technology provides a select cohort of Postgraduate and PhD students the opportunity to network, expand their knowledge and enhance their skills.

There are two summer schools to choose from under the themes ‘Social Computing in the Big Data Era’ and ‘Usable Security and Privacy in Online Social Networks’, within the scope of the EU-funded projects NOTRE and ENCASE respectively.

The theme of the ENCASE Summer School is Usable Security and Privacy in Online Social Networks. The ENCASE summer school aims to encourage participants to understand significant research issues commonly or increasingly studied in the field of Usable Security and Privacy for Online Social Networking. Such enhanced understanding will enable them to leverage the latest advances in usable security and privacy to design and implement a browser-based architecture for the protection of minors from malicious actors in online social networks. Also to provide research and innovation contributions to end-user experience assessment, large scale data processing, machine learning and data mining, and content confidentiality. Furthermore, it will give opportunities to PhD students to interact and exchange research ideas with other PhD students, participate in discussions and focus group sessions on PhD studies and experiences and engage in discussions around research in Usable Security and Privacy for Online Social Networking.

The theme of the NOTRE Summer School is Social Computing in the Big Data Era. It mainly targets PhD students and skilled practitioners. The programme covers topics from a broad range of domains which contribute to advancing the field of Big Data. The NOTRE aims to encourage participants to understand significant research issues commonly or increasingly studied in the field of Social Computing in the Big Data Era. Such enhanced understanding will enable them to select and combine appropriate research methods, technologies, theories for their specific Social Computing projects and to contextualize them without unintended impacts on validity. Furthermore, it will give opportunities to PhD students to interact and exchange research ideas with other PhD students, participate in discussions and focus group sessions on PhD studies and experiences and engage in discussions around research in Social Computing in the Big Data Era.

Both summer schools feature a range of speakers from renowned institutions that include the University College London (UCL), Aristotle University of Thessalonikis (AUTH) and the University of Düsseldorf as well as industry partners such as Telefonica. The summer schools are taught in parallel with intensive morning lecture sessions and afternoon study sessions while one day has been allocated for a visit.

All participants, who successfully complete the summer school, will receive a Summer School Certificate of Attendance (6 ECTS) from the Cyprus University of Technology.

More information can be found here:
"http://summerschools.socialcomputing.eu/"

Summer Schools

Cyprus University of Technology
Social Computing Research Centre (SCRC)
ENCASE Summer School on
Social Computing
17-21 July 2017
Information for Instructors (ENCASE)
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Institution: CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (CUT)
Department: COMMUNICATION AND INTERNET STUDIES
Course code: MGA 494
Course title: USABLE SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS
Type of course: SUMMER SCHOOL
Year offered: 2017
Semester:
Number of credits (CUT credit system): 6
Language of instruction: ENGLISH

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Travel information:
Airport Transfers:
Airport Taxis and Shuttles: You can get an airport taxi on arrival to the airport. Service is quite good, but at times one may have to wait and prices may vary depending on the time of arrival. 40 to 50 E.

Airport Shuttle from Larnaca airport. Distance from Larnaca airport to Limassol: approximately 50min. Airport Shuttle from Paphos airport. Distance from Paphos airport to Limassol: approximately 50min. You can have a very good service with KAPNOS https://www.kapnosairportshuttle.com/timetables/1?locale=en

Public Transportation: The Cyprus By Bus webpage provides information about buses, bus routes and bus timetables in Cyprus. http://www.cyprusbybus.com/

Car rentals: Instructors may opt to rent a car during their stay, and thus use it for their airport transfers.
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Lunches:
Coffee breaks/light snacks during the summer school (mornings Monday-Friday) are covered by the workshop. On Wednesday, we will have lunch at the Troodos mountain in a restaurant (TBC).
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Renumeration:
The travel for the summer school (flights + per diem) will be covered from your allocated ENCASE fund at your institution following the usual procedures and guidelines.
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Suggestions for Hotels:
The Royal Apollonia
http://theroyalapollonia.com/

Londa Hotel
http://www.londahotel.com/

Crowne Plaza Limassol Hotel
https://www.ihg.com/crowneplaza/hotels/gb/en/limassol/lmscy/hoteldetail
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"USABLE SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS"

Speaker Announcement:

Nick Bassiliades - Associate Professor in Knowledge Systems at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Nick Bassiliades received his MSc in Applied Artificial Intelligence from the Computing Science Department of Aberdeen University, in 1992, and his PhD degree in parallel knowledge base systems from the Department of Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1998, where he is currently an Associate Professor.

His research interests include knowledge-based and rule systems, multiagent systems, ontologies, linked data and the Semantic Web and the application of the above research areas in e-Learning, e-Commerce, e-Government, Semantic Web Services, Ambient Intelligence, and Electric Vehicles.

He has published more than 180 papers in journals, conferences, and books, has coauthored 4 books and co-edited 8 volumes. His published research has received more 2500 citations (h-index 26).

He was the Program Chair of 9 conferences / workshops, he has been member of the Program Committee of more than 100 and on the Organizational Committee of 6 conferences / workshops.

He has been involved in 32 R&D projects leading 9 of them. He has been the general secretary of the Board of the Greek Artificial Intelligence Society; he is a director of RuleML, Inc., and also a member of the Greek Computer Society, the IEEE, and the ACM.

Nick Bassiliades is a member of the Software Engineering, Web and Intelligent Systems (SoftWISE) Laboratory.

"USABLE SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS"

Speaker Announcement:

Nick Bassiliades - Associate Professor in Knowledge Systems at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Nick Bassiliades received his MSc in Applied Artificial Intelligence from the Computing Science Department of Aberdeen University, in 1992, and his PhD degree in parallel knowledge base systems from the Department of Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1998, where he is currently an Associate Professor.

His research interests include knowledge-based and rule systems, multiagent systems, ontologies, linked data and the Semantic Web and the application of the above research areas in e-Learning, e-Commerce, e-Government, Semantic Web Services, Ambient Intelligence, and Electric Vehicles.

He has published more than 180 papers in journals, conferences, and books, has coauthored 4 books and co-edited 8 volumes. His published research has received more 2500 citations (h-index 26).

He was the Program Chair of 9 conferences / workshops, he has been member of the Program Committee of more than 100 and on the Organizational Committee of 6 conferences / workshops.

He has been involved in 32 R&D projects leading 9 of them. He has been the general secretary of the Board of the Greek Artificial Intelligence Society; he is a director of RuleML, Inc., and also a member of the Greek Computer Society, the IEEE, and the ACM.

Nick Bassiliades is a member of the Software Engineering, Web and Intelligent Systems (SoftWISE) Laboratory.

"USABLE SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS"

Speaker Announcement:

Nicolas Kourtellis - Ph.D. Associate Researcher in Telefonica I+D, Barcelona, Spain.

Dr. Nicolas Kourtellis, is an Associate Researcherg in Telefonica I+D since 2015. Previously he was a Researcher in the Web Mining Research Group at Yahoo Labs, Barcelona.

He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of South Florida (USF) since 2012, a MSc in Computer Science from USF (2008), and a BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (2006).

He is currently interested in distributed management and analysis of user private data, advertising for personal data, load balancing of distributed streaming processing engines, streaming graph analysis, behavior analysis of users in online platforms.

He has published his work in top conferences and journals on distributed systems and data mining, including IEEE TKDE, IEEE TPDS, ACM TOIT, IEEE ICDE, ACM WWW, ACM KDD, ACM SIGMOD/PODS, IEEE P2P and others.

He is contributing to EU-funded projects including ReCRED, TYPES, ENCASE and PROTASIS.

"USABLE SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS"

Speaker Announcement:

Nicolas Kourtellis - Ph.D. Associate Researcher in Telefonica I+D, Barcelona, Spain.

Dr. Nicolas Kourtellis, is an Associate Researcherg in Telefonica I+D since 2015. Previously he was a Researcher in the Web Mining Research Group at Yahoo Labs, Barcelona.

He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of South Florida (USF) since 2012, a MSc in Computer Science from USF (2008), and a BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (2006).

He is currently interested in distributed management and analysis of user private data, advertising for personal data, load balancing of distributed streaming processing engines, streaming graph analysis, behavior analysis of users in online platforms.

He has published his work in top conferences and journals on distributed systems and data mining, including IEEE TKDE, IEEE TPDS, ACM TOIT, IEEE ICDE, ACM WWW, ACM KDD, ACM SIGMOD/PODS, IEEE P2P and others.

He is contributing to EU-funded projects including ReCRED, TYPES, ENCASE and PROTASIS.

"USABLE SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS"

Speaker Announcement:

Gianluca Stringhini - Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Security and Crime Science at University College London.

Gianluca Stringhini is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Security and Crime Science at University College London.

He obtained his PhD from UCSB in 2014, where he worked under the supervision of Christopher Kruegel and Giovanni Vigna. Gianluca works in the area of data-driven security, analyzing large datasets to better understand complex cybercriminal operations and developing mitigation techniques to fight them.

He was awarded a Google Faculty Research Award in 2015, the Symantec Research Labs Fellowship in 2012, and the Best Student Paper Award at ACSAC in 2010.

He published in top security conferences such as CCS, NDSS, and USENIX Security, as well as top measurement and web conferences such as IMC and WWW.

"USABLE SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS"

Speaker Announcement:

Gene Tsudik - Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science at University of California Irvine

Gene Tsudik is a Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from USC in 1991. Before coming to UCI in 2000, he was at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory (1991-1996) and USC/ISI (1996-2000).

Over the years, his research interests included numerous topics in security and applied cryptography. He currently serves as Director of Secure Computing and Networking Center (SCONCE) at UCI.

Gene Tsudik is a former Fulbright Scholar, a fellow of ACM, IEEE and AAAS, as well as a member of Academia Europaea. From 2009 to 2015 he was the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Information and Systems Security (TISSEC).