The K and SM Research Center, Department of Theoretical and Applied Science, University of Insubria (Italy) announces the availability of 1 Marie-Curie Ph.D. Fellowship Position for Early-stage researchers in Online Social Networking technologies, with a focus on: Privacy, Risk Analysis and Trust Management in DOSNs.
The position is for up to three (3) years, starting in early 2013. The position is funded by the European Commission under the Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) program iSocial, which focuses on the design of distributed and scalable overlay networking and distributed storage infrastructures for open online social networks and for innovative social network applications that preserve end-user privacy and information ownership.
The main objective of the iSocial Initial Training Network is to provide world class training for a next generation of researchers, computer scientists, and Web engineers, emphasizing on a strong combination of advanced understanding in both theoretical and experimental approaches, methodologies and tools that are required to develop Decentralized Online Social Networking platforms.
Ph.D. position on privacy and trust decentralied social networks
