Karl Aberer
Full Professor
karl.aberer@epfl.ch +41 21 693 46 79 http://lsirpeople.epfl.ch/aberer/
EPFL IC IINFCOM LSIR
BC 108 (Bâtiment BC)
Station 14
CH-1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 46 79
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INN 112 (Bâtiment INN)
Station 14
CH-1015 Lausanne
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Fields of expertise
Data integration, Peer-to-peer systems, World Wide Web, Sensor data management
Mission
Karl Aberer works on foundations, algorithms and infrastructures for distributed information management, including peer-to-peer overlay networks, semantic interoperability, trust management and applications to scientific and sensor data management. His particular interest is on decentralized system architectures, self-organization mechanisms and emergent structures in decentralized information systems.Biography
Karl Aberer received his PhD in mathematics in 1991 from the ETH Zürich. From 1991 to 1992 he was postdoctoral fellow at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1992, he joined the Integrated Publication and Information Systems institute (IPSI) of GMD in Germany, where he was leading the research division Open Adaptive Information Management Systems. In 2000 he joined EPFL as full professor. Since 2005 he is the director of the Swiss National Research Center for Mobile Information and Communication Systems (NCCR-MICS, www.mics.ch). He is member of the editorial boards of VLDB Journal, ACM Transaction on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems and World Wide Web Journal. He has been consulting for the Swiss government in research and science policy as a member of the Swiss Research and Technology Council (SWTR) from 2003 - 2011.CURRENT WORK
environmental monitoring and participatory sensing: Linking the virtual world to our physical environment through wireless sensing is one of the most fundamental developments that information technology has been undergoing. We are exploring techniques of managing data captured by sensors in a sustainable way, involving communities into the sensing tasks, and providing support for properly interpreting the captured data. More information semantic interoperability in decentralized systems: Probably one of the most persistent problems in information management is semantic interoperability. This is true for classical business computing as well as for community platforms. We believe that this problem is grounded in the question of how to establish communication among autonomous entities in a self-organizing way. More information trust management and social networks : A fundamental and pressing problem in our information infrastructure us the establishment of trusted relationships. Web advertising, social networking and community platforms are examples where trust and the related question of privacy are questions of primordial importance. We are investigating a wide range of statistical, machine learning and game-theoretic techniques for enabling trusted interaction in today's Web. More information fair resource sharing in self-organizing systems : Optimizing resource usage in a distributed system with autonomous participants comes down to the problem of assuring fairness of resource availability. We study distributed algorithms and mechanisms to enable fair resource sharing in a variety of environments, such as peer-to-peer systems, cloud computing platforms and community sensing. . More information Karl Aberer's research is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the European Commission, and industrial partners.Publications
Infoscience publications
Infoscience
Truthful, Transparent and Fair Data Collection Mechanisms
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7396.Debunking Misinformation on the Web: Detection, Validation, and Visualisation
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9694.Web Content Credibility
Springer.Privacy, Trust and Incentives in Participatory Sensing
Participatory Sensing, Opinions and Collective Awareness; Switzerland: Springer, 2017. p. 93-111.Towards Enabling Probabilistic Databases for Participatory Sensing
2014. 10th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, Miami, Florida, United States, October 22–25, 2014. p. 114-123.Using Identity Premium for Honesty Enforcement and Whitewashing Prevention
Computational Intelligence. 2014. DOI : 10.1111/coin.12032.Pattern-wise trust assessment of sensor data
2014. IEEE MDM 2014 - 15th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, Brisbane, Australia, July 15-18, 2014. p. 127-136. DOI : 10.1109/MDM.2014.22.Special Issue on Privacy and Trust Management in Cloud and Distributed Systems
IEEE Transactions On Information Forensics And Security. 2013. DOI : 10.1109/Tifs.2013.2259431.A Decentralized Online Social Network with Efficient User-Driven Replication
2012. 2012 International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2012, Amsterdam, September 3-5, 2012. p. 166-175. DOI : 10.1109/SocialCom-PASSAT.2012.127.My3: A highly-available P2P-based online social network
2011. 11th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (IEEE P2P'11), Kyoto, Japan, August 31 to September 2, 2011. p. 166-167. DOI : 10.1109/P2P.2011.6038730.Effective Usage of Computational Trust Models in Rational Environments
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems. 2011. DOI : 10.1145/2019591.2019593.Analyzing Trust Management Impact to Optimal Adversarial Attacks in Recommender Systems
2010Using identity premium for cooperation enforcement and whitewashing prevention in rational environments
2010Leveraging Social Networks for Increased BitTorrent Robustness
2010. 7th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Neetworking Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, January 9-12, 2010. DOI : 10.1109/CCNC.2010.5421823.Privacy-aware and highly-available OSN profiles
2010. 6th International Workshop on Collaborative Peer-to-Peer Systems (COPS 2010) at the 19th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2010). p. 211-216. DOI : 10.1109/WETICE.2010.40.High Quality P2P Service Provisioning via Decentralized Trust Management
Lausanne, EPFL, 2010. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-4711.Impact of Trust Management and Information Sharing to Adversarial Cost in Ranking Systems
2010. 4th IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference on Trust Management (IFIPTM 2010), Morioka, Iwate, Japan, June 14-18, 2010. p. 108–124. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-13446-3_8.Impact of Trust Management and Information Sharing to Adversarial Cost in Ranking Systems
2010Enabling Secure Secret Sharing in Distributed Online Social Networks
2009. 25th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 2009 (ACSAC 2009), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 7-11 December 2009. p. 419-428. DOI : 10.1109/ACSAC.2009.46.Towards Probabilistic Estimation of Quality of Online Services
2009. 2009 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009), Los Angeles, July 6-10, 2009. DOI : 10.1109/ICWS.2009.11.Synergies of different reputation systems: challenges and opportunities
2009. 7th Annual IEEE Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, August 25-27, 2009. p. 218-226. DOI : 10.1109/CONGRESS.2009.8.Effective Usage of Computational Trust Models in Rational Environments
2008. Web Intelligence Conference (WI-IAT'08), Sydney, Australia, December 9-12, 2008.Probabilistic Estimation Quality Ratings of Online Services
2008Effective Usage of Computational Trust Models in Rational Environments
2008A Probabilistic Framework for Decentralized Management of Trust and Quality
2007. Eleventh International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2007), in cooperation with ACM SIGWeb, ACM SIGArt, ACM SIGKDD, and ACM SIGCHI, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, September 19 - 21, 2007. p. 328-342. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540-75119-9_23.The Complex Facets of Reputation and Trust
2006. 9th Fuzzy Days, International Conference on Computational Intelligence Fuzzy Logic Neural Networks Evolutionary Algorithms, Dortmund, Germany, September 18 - 20, 2006. p. 281-294. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-34783-6_29.A Search Engine for QoS-enabled Discovery of Semantic Web Services
International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management. 2006. DOI : 10.1504/IJBPIM.2006.012623.Towards P2P-based Semantic Web Service Discovery with QoS Support
2006. Workshop on Business Processes and Services (BPS), in conjunction with the Third International Conference on Business Process Management, Nancy, France, September 6-7, 2005, Nancy, France, September 6-7, 2005. p. 18-31. DOI : 10.1007/11678564_3.Probabilistic Estimation of Peers’ Quality and Behaviors for Subjective Trust Evaluation
2006SoS: self-organizing substrates
Lausanne, EPFL, 2006. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-3615.A Search Engine for QoS-enabled Discovery of Semantic Web Services
2006P2P Reputation Management : Probabilistic Estimation vs Social Networks
Computer Networks. 2006. DOI : 10.1016/j.comnet.2005.07.003.QoS-based Service Selection and Ranking with Trust and Reputation Management
2005. 2005 International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), Agia Napa, Cyprus., 31 Oct - 4 Nov 2005. p. 446-483. DOI : 10.1007/11575771_30.On the Convergence of Structured Search, Information Retrieval and Trust Management in Distributed Systems
2005. Third German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies (MATES), Koblenz, September 11-13, 2005. p. 1–14. DOI : 10.1007/11550648_1.QoS-based Service Selection and Ranking with Trust and Reputation Management
2005Towards P2P-based Semantic Web Service Discovery with QoS Support
2005Building trust-aware P2P systems
Lausanne, EPFL, 2005. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-3313.Possibilities for Managing Trust in P2P Networks
2004Beyond "Web of Trust": Enabling P2P E-commerce
2003. IEEE Conference on E-Commerce (CEC'03), Newport Beach, California, USA, June 24-27, 2003. p. 303-312. DOI : 10.1109/COEC.2003.1210265.Trust-Aware Cooperation
2002. International Workshop on Mobile Teamwork, Vienna, 2002. p. 408-409. DOI : 10.1109/ICDCSW.2002.1030804.Trust-Aware Delivery of Composite Goods
2002. International Workshop on Agents and Peer-To-Peer Computing (AP2PC 2002), Bologna, Italy, 2002.Trust-Aware Delivery of Composite Goods
2002Managing Trust in a Peer-2-Peer Information System
2001. Ninth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2001), Atlanta, Georgia, 2001. p. 310-317. DOI : 10.1145/502585.502638.Managing Trust in a Peer-2-Peer Information System
2001Teaching & PhD
PhD Students
Banaei Mohammadreza, Foroutan Eghlidi Negar, Mohammadshahi Alireza, Romanou Angeliki,Past EPFL PhD Students
Agir Berker , Bonvin Nicolas , Budura Adriana , Catasta Michele , Dubovitskaya Alevtina , Duong Chi Thang , Eberle Julien , Elmas Tugrulcan , Galuba Wojciech , Guo Tian , Gupta Amit , Haghani Parisa , Harkous Hamza , Hunkeler Urs , Jurca Oana Anca , Narendula Rammohan , Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung , Nguyên Thành Tâm , Olteanu Alexandra , Proskurnia Julia , Ranvier Jean-Eudes Marie , Rappaz Jérémie , Riahi Mehdi , Salehi Ali , Sathe Saket , Schmidt Roman , Smeros Panagiotis , Vu Hung Le , Wijaya Tri Kurniawan , Yan Zhixian , Yerva Surender Reddy , Zhuang Hao ,Courses
Distributed information systems
This course introduces the foundations of information retrieval, data mining and knowledge bases, which constitute the foundations of today's Web-based distributed information systems.