Workshops and Tutorials

Wanlei Zhou
Alfred Deakin Professor and Chair of Information Technology,
School of Information Technology,
Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Email: wanlei@deakin.edu.au
Website: http://www.deakin.edu.au/~wanlei

Dr Tianqing Zhu
School of Information Technology
Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Email: t.zhu@deakin.edu.au

Over the past two decades, digital information collected by corporations, organisations and governments has created huge amount of datasets, and the speed of such data collection has increased exponentially over the last a few years because of the pervasiveness of computing devices. However, most of the collected datasets are personally related and contain private or sensitive information. Even though curators can apply several simple anonymization techniques, there is still a high probability that the sensitive information of individuals will be disclosed. Privacy-preserving has therefore become an urgent issue that needs to be addressed in the digital age.

Differential privacy is one of the most prevalent privacy models because it provides a rigorous and provable privacy notion that can be implemented in various research areas. In this presentation, we will start with privacy breaches and privacy models, and introduce the basic concept of differential privacy. We then will forcus on the applications of differential privacy in various senarios in which we have been working on, including Location privacy, Recommender systems, Tagging systems, and Correlated datasets. We will then finalise the talk by outlining the privacy challenges in the era of big data.

Professor Wanlei Zhou received the B.Eng and M.Eng degrees from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and the PhD degree from The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, in 1991, all in Computer Science and Engineering. He also received a DSc degree from Deakin University in 2002. He is currently the Alfred Deakin Professor and Chair of Information Technology, School of Information Technology, Deakin University. Professor Zhou has been the Head of School of Information Technology twice (Jan 2002-Apr 2006 and Jan 2009-Jan 2015) and Associate Dean of Faculty of Science and Technology in Deakin University (May 2006-Dec 2008). Before joining Deakin University, Professor Zhou served as a lecturer in University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, a system programmer in HP at Massachusetts, USA; a lecturer in Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; and a lecturer in National University of Singapore, Singapore. His research interests include distributed systems, network security, bioinformatics, and e-learning. Professor Zhou has published more than 300 papers in refereed international journals and refereed international conferences proceedings. He has also chaired many international conferences and has been invited to deliver keynote address in many international conferences. Prof Zhou is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Dr Tianqing Zhu received her BEng and MEng degrees from Wuhan University, China, in 2000 and 2004, respectively, and a PhD degree from Deakin University in Computer Science, Australia, in 2014. Dr Tianqing Zhu is currently a teaching scholar in the School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Before joining Deakin University, she served as a lecturer in Wuhan Polytechnic University, China from 2004 to 2011. Her research interests include privacy preserving, data mining and network security. She has won the best student paper award in PAKDD 2014 and was invited to give tutorials on differential privacy in PAKDD 2015 and SociaSec 2015.

• Athula Ginige, Western Sydney University, Australia
• Giuliana Vitiello, University of Salerno, Italy

In practice, a Digital Knowledge Ecosystem is the product of appropriate information sharing, management and knowledge inferencing software and associated hardware, ICT service providers, and users who are both information producers and consumers, or prosumers who dependent on one another for their information needs.  Conceptually, a Digital Knowledge Ecosystem is any “distributed adaptive open socio-technical system for knowledge sharing and management exhibiting properties of self-organisation, scalability and sustainability”. [1]

Rapid adoption of mobile phones, today being used over half the world population has opened up new opportunities to develop Digital Knowledge Ecosystem based solutions to many of the challenges the society is facing in domains such as health, business, social, education, agriculture and environment. These systems can facilitate the flow of information and infer new knowledge to provide context specific actionable information for prosumers to make informed decisions leading to enhanced economic, social and environmental outcomes for the individual as well as to the society.

[1]      Briscoe G, 2010, Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems, Pg. 39-46, Bangkok, Thailand, 26 October 2010, ACM New York, NY, USA

The workshop will be a forum within which to discuss and advance state-of-the-art research and development of Digital Knowledge Ecosystems.  The aim, in particular, will be to promote the study of architectural solutions, behavioural models, system evolution patterns and underpinning technologies and paradigms.

The first part of the workshop will focus on existing Digital Knowledge Ecosystems in domains such as business, health, social life, emergency management and others.  Of particular value in this first part will be presentations on Digital Knowledge Ecosystems which foster endogenous local development, local capacity building and knowledge sharing processes.

In the second part, participants will be encouraged to discuss emergent research challenges and generalise from case studies, including those presented in the first part.  The goal will be to draw-out the requisites for Digital Knowledge Ecosystems to solve global development problems and empower people and communities.

The workshop will be held on the beautiful Amalfi coast, at the Hotel Cetus – Cetara (Salerno), Italy, in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Green, Pervasive and Cloud Computing (GPC 2017), May 11-14.

Conference registration details will be given on the GPC’17 web-site.

Submission of original papers is welcome, along with presentations of recent advances and preliminary results obtained in the context of ongoing projects.

Accepted papers will be published by Springer LCNS Series, indexed in both Scopus and ISI Web of Science.  All submitted papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS template, available at: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0, and must not exceed 12 pages including bibliography and appendices.

Submission instructions can be found at the main conference’s submission page at: http://gpc2017.di.unisa.it/gpc2017/index.php/instruction-for-authors/.  Authors are required to send their submission by February 24^th  to Prof. Giuliana Vitiello gvitiello@unisa.it

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Collaborative Systems for Sustainable Logistics and Transportation
• Digital ecosystems for supply chain management
• e-Democracy
• Emergency preparadness/management
• Healthcare management
• ICT-based sustainable development
• Mobile computing
• Smart agriculture
• Social and community engagement strategies
• Organising knowledge for context specific access
• Harnessing Social Knowledge
• Information, Knowledge and empowerment
• Situational Knowledge and Territorial Intelligence
• Creating Sustainable Information flow models
• Digital Knowledge Ecosystems and New Business models

• Giovanni Acampora, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Italy
• Ignacio Aedo, Unisidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
• Lasanthi De Silva, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Paloma Díaz, Unisidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
• Tamara Ginige, Australian Catholic University, Australia
• Jeevani S. Goonatillake, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Walisadeera Anusha Indika, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka

• Maria De Marsico, Università di Roma Sapienza

• Ramesh Jain, University of California, Irvine, USA
• David Lindley, justASK: Australians Sharing Knowledge Pty Ltd, Australia
• Heinrich C. Mayr, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
• Deborah Richards, Macquarie University, Sydneu, Australia
• Monica Sebillo, University of Salerno, Italy
• Uma Srinivasan, Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC), Australia
• Genoveffa Tortora, University of Salerno, Italy
• Gihan Wikramanayake, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka