iSocial Secondments



The iSocial research meetings served to identify a number of micro-projects on which fellows from at least two partners started to collaborate. Currently the fellows are involved in the following micro-projects:


- Decentralized OSN using WebRTC [UCY-PEER-KTH]

- Information propagation and Evolution in multi-functional multiplex OSNs [UCY-UB]

- Analysis of mutli-layer social networked systems [UB-FORTH]

- Decentralized Identity Validation for OSNs [KTH-INSUB]

- Collaborative Access Control [FORTH-INSUB]

- Distributed Activity based Sybil Attack Identification in DOSNs [INSUB-KTH]

- Location-based access control for P2P video sharing [PEER-INSUB]

- Publish/Subscribe systems for DOSNs [IBM-KTH]

- Distributed Storage for DOSNs [IBM-KTH]


Each aforementioned micro-project resulted (or will result) in at least one secondment as displayed on the following items:

Opening Code: iSocial-KTH-ESR2

Host: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden

Recruit: Anis Nasir

Starting Date: 1/8/2013

1st Internship in: Yahoo Labs Barcelona, Spain

Topic of 1st internship: Load Balancing in Stream Processing Systems

Dates of the 1st internship: Mid Feb - July 2014

Opening Code: iSocial-KTH-ESR3

Host: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden

Recruit: Amira Soliman

Starting Date: 26/8/2013

1st Internship in: University of Insubria (INSUB), Italy

Topic of 1st internship: Decentralized Identity Validation for Social Networks

Dates of the 1st internship: May - June 2014

Opening Code: iSocial-PEER-ESR4

Host: Peerialism AB, Sweden

Recruit: Giovanni Simoni

Starting Date: 1/5/2013

1st Internship in: University of Insubria (INSUB), Italy

Topic of 1st internship: Security on VoD

Dates of the 1st internship: June - July 2014

Opening Code: iSocial-FORTH-ESR5

Host: Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Greece

Recruit: Despoina Antonakaki

Starting Date: 1/9/2013

1st Internship in: Internet Scientific Group Telefónica & University of Barcelona, Spain

Topic of 1st internship: Structural Evolution of Information Based Online Social Networked Systems

Dates of the 1st internship: 17 September 2014 - 4 December 2014

2nd Internship in: University of Cyprus (UCY), Cyprus

Opening Code: iSocial-INSUB-ESR6

Host: University of Insubria, Italy

Recruit: Leila Bahri

Starting Date: 1/6/2013

1st Internship in: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden

Topic of 1st internship: Identity Management for DOSNs (extension of the internship in Line 4)

Dates of the 1st internship: Mid-August, Mid-October 2014

Opening Code: iSocial-INSUB-ESR7

Host: University of Insubria, Italy

Recruit: Laleh Naeimeh

Starting Date: 1/9/2013

1st Internship in: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden

Topic of 1st internship: Anomaly Detection in Decentralized Social Network

Dates of the 1st internship: Mid-October, Mid-December 2014

Opening Code: iSocial-FORTH-ESR8

Host: Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Greece

Recruit: Panagiotis Ilia

Starting Date: 1/6/2013

1st Internship in: University of Insubria (INSUB), Italy

Topic of 1st internship: Multi-party Decentralized Access Control on Shared Data for OSNs

Dates of the 1st internship: 22 June - 1 August and 1 September - 30 September

2nd Internship in: University of Cyprus (UCY), Cyprus

Opening Code: iSocial-UB-ESR9

Host: University of Barcelona, Spain

Recruit: Kolja Kleineberg

Starting Date: 3/4/2013

1st Internship in: University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Topic of 1st internship: Understanding Mutli-layer Social Networked Systems

Dates of the 1st internship: 15 January - 15 March 2015

Opening Code: iSocial-UCY-ESR10

Host: University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Recruit: Hariton Efstathiades

Starting Date: 2/9/2013

1st Internship in: Yahoo Labs Barcelona, Spain

Topic of 1st internship: Extracting Real-Life Patterns from Online Social Networks

Dates of the 1st internship: 18 April - 20 June 2015

Opening Code: iSocial-UCY-ESR11

Host: University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Recruit: Stefanos Antaris

Starting Date: 01/11/2014

1st Internship in: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden

Topic of 1st internship: Socio-Aware Decentralized Topology Construction Protocols

Dates of the 1st internship: 15 April - 05 June 2015

Opening Code: iSocial-KTH-ESR12

Host: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden

Recruit: Kambiz Ghoorchian

Starting Date: 01/10/2013

1st Internship in: University of Insubria (INSUB), Italy

Topic of 1st internship: Distributed Activity Based Sybil Attack Detection

Dates of the 1st internship: 15 January - 15 Mar - 2015

Opening Code: iSocial-IBM-ER1

Host: IBM Haifa labs, Israel

Recruit: Andrés García García

Starting Date: 19/05/2014

1st Internship in: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden

Topic of 1st internship: Distributed Storage for DOSNs

Dates of the 1st internship: April - June 2015

Opening Code: iSocial-PEER-ER3

Host: Peerialism AB, Sweden

Recruit: Mikael Högqvist

Starting Date: 01/3/2013

1st Internship in: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden

Topic of 1st internship: A DOSN using WebRTC

Dates of the 1st internship: 1 May - 1 July 2014

Opening Code: iSocial-UB-ER4

Host: University of Barcelona, Spain

Recruit: Liudmila Rozanova

Starting Date: 15/04/2015

1st Internship in: University of Barcelona (UB), Spain

Topic of 1st internship: Navigability of Decentralized Online Social Networks

Dates of the 1st internship: 15 April - 31 August 2015

Opening Code: iSocial-IBM-ER6

Host: IBM Haifa labs, Israel

Recruit: Chen Chen

Starting Date: 04/02/2014

1st Internship in: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden

Topic of 1st internship: Publish/Subscribe systems for DOSNs

Dates of the 1st internship: February - April 2015