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Title:

smART socIal media eCOsystem in a blockchaiN Federated environment (ARTICONF)

Description:

Social media platforms are key technologies for next generation connectivity. Social media platforms have the potential to shape and mobilise patterns of communication, practices of exchange and business, creation, learning and knowledge acquisition. Typically, social media are centralised platforms with a single proprietary organisation controlling the network.

This poses critical issues of trust and governance over created and propagated content. This is particularly problematic when data breaches are a regular phenomenon at the hands of centralised intermediaries. To address this, we need innovative solutions at the user level (i.e. that of consumers, prosumers, and businesses) and at the level of the underlying social media environment. This will facilitate global reach, improved trust, and decentralised control and ownership.

ARTICONF researches and develops a novel set of trustworthy, resilient, and globally sustainable decentralised social media services. ARTICONF addresses issues of trust, time-criticality and democratisation for a new generation of federated infrastructure, to fulfil the privacy, robustness, and autonomy related promises that proprietary social media platforms have failed to deliver so far. Namely, its goals are to: (1) simplify the creation of open and agile social media ecosystem with trusted participation using a two stage permissioned blockchain; (2) automatically detect interest groups and communities using graph anonymization techniques for decentralised and tokenized decision-making and reasoning; (3) elastically autoscale time-critical social media applications through an adaptive orchestrated Cloud edge-based infrastructure meeting application runtime requirements; and (4) enhance monetary inclusion in collaborative models through cognition and knowledge supply chains.

Keywords:

Distributed Social Networks, P2P, smart architectures, Social media

Short title:	ARTICONF
Period:	31.12.2018 - 31.12.2022
Contact e-mail:	radu.prodan@aau.at
Homepage:	https://articonf.eu/

Employees

Role

Time period

(internal)

Project leader
(Authorised Person)

01.01.2019 - 31.12.2022

(internal)

Student staff

01.03.2019 - 31.01.2021

(internal)

Research staff
Research staff

01.10.2020 - 31.12.2020
01.02.2020 - 31.07.2020

(internal)

Student staff

04.11.2020 - 31.12.2020

(internal)

Student staff

01.10.2020 - 31.01.2021

(internal)

Student staff

02.06.2020 - 31.01.2021

(internal)

Administrator

01.01.2019 - 30.06.2022

(internal)

Research staff

01.04.2019 - 28.02.2022

(internal)

Research staff

01.10.2020 - 11.06.2021

(internal)

PhD student

01.02.2020 - 30.06.2022

(internal)

Technician
Technician

01.11.2019 - 30.11.2019
01.09.2020 - 30.09.2020

(internal)

Research staff

01.04.2020 - 30.04.2020

(internal)

Research staff

01.01.2021 - 30.06.2021

(internal)

Administrator

08.02.2021 - 30.06.2022

Assignment

Organisational unit

Fakultät für Technische Wissenschaften

Categorisation

Project type	Research funding (on request / by call for proposals)
Funding type	§27
Research type	Applied research Fundamental research
Subject areas	1020 - Computer Sciences
Research Cluster	No research Research Cluster selected
Gender aspects	Genderrelevance not selected
Project focus	Science to Science (Quality indicator: I) Classification raster of the assigned organisational units: Institut für Informationstechnologie
working groups	No working group selected

Funding

Funding program

Organisation: European Commission

Cooperations

Organisation

Address

Science Park 904
NL - 1090 GH Amsterdam

GB Edinburgh

Partizanska bb
MK - 6000 Ohrid

Arquitectura Street 2
ES - 41015 Sevilla

Rua Eng. Frederico Ulrich 2650
PT - 4470-605 Maia

Grenseveien 21
NO - 4313 Sandnes

23 Skyline Village
GB - E14 9TS London

Research activities

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Publications	A Semantic Model with Self-adaptive and Autonomous Relevant Technology for Social Media Applications A Semantic Model with Self-adaptive and Autonomous Relevant Technology for Social Media Applications (2020) Z. Najafabadi Samani, A. Lercher, N. Saurabh, R. Prodan Proceedings of the European Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (Euro-Par 2019) No Publisher selected to publication SMART: A Tool for Trust and Reputation Management in Social Media SMART: A Tool for Trust and Reputation Management in Social Media (2022) N. Saurabh, M. Rasinger, H. Fard, R. Prodan Euro-Par 2021 Proceedings of the European Conference on Parallel Processing No Publisher selected to publication Multilayer Resource-aware Partitioning for Fog Application Placement Multilayer Resource-aware Partitioning for Fog Application Placement (2021) Z. Najafabadi Samani, N. Saurabh, R. Prodan ICFEC '21 Proceedings of the IEEE 5th International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing No Publisher selected to publication WELFake: Word Embedding Over Linguistic Features for Fake News Detection WELFake: Word Embedding Over Linguistic Features for Fake News Detection (2021) P. Verma, P. Agrawal, I. Amorim, R. Prodan IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems No Publisher selected to publication Semantics-Aware Virtual Machine Image Management in IaaS Clouds Semantics-Aware Virtual Machine Image Management in IaaS Clouds (2019) N. Saurabh, J. Remmers, D. Kimovski, R. Prodan, j. Barbosa Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2019 No Publisher selected to publication Automated bank cheque verification using image processing and deep learning methods Automated bank cheque verification using image processing and deep learning methods (2020) P. Agrawal, D. Chaudhary, V. Madaan, A. Zabrovskiy, R. Prodan, D. Kimovski, C. Timmerer Multimedia Tools and Applications No Publisher selected to publication ARTICONF: Towards a Smart Social Media Ecosystem in a Blockchain Federated Environment ARTICONF: Towards a Smart Social Media Ecosystem in a Blockchain Federated Environment (2020) R. Prodan, N. Saurabh, Z. Zhao, K. Orton-Johnson, A. Chakravorty, A. Karadimce, A. Ulisses Proceedings of the European Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (Euro-Par 2019) No Publisher selected to publication Kontrolle der Daten durch Benutzer Kontrolle der Daten durch Benutzer (2018) R. Prodan Kleine Zeitung No Publisher selected to publication MOGPlay: A Decentralized Crowd Journalism Application for Democratic News Production MOGPlay: A Decentralized Crowd Journalism Application for Democratic News Production (2023) I. Lima, C. Marinho, V. Filipe, A. Ulisses , N. Saurabh, A. Chakravorty, Z. Zhao, A. Hristov, R. Prodan ASONAM 2022 Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining No Publisher selected to publication XCOVNet: Chest X-ray Image Classification for COVID-19 Early Detection Using Convolutional Neural Networks XCOVNet: Chest X-ray Image Classification for COVID-19 Early Detection Using Convolutional Neural Networks (2021) V. Madaan, A. Roy, C. Gupta, P. Agrawal, A. Sharma, C. Bologa, R. Prodan New Generation Computing No Publisher selected to publication Context-aware Community Evolution Prediction in Online Social Networks Context-aware Community Evolution Prediction in Online Social Networks (2023) A. Lercher, N. Saurabh, R. Prodan ISPA/BDCloud/SocialCom/SustainCom 2022 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Paralell and Distributed Processing with Applications, Big Data & Cloud Computing, Sustainable Computing & Communications, Social Computing & Networking No Publisher selected to publication A dynamic evolutionary multi-objective virtual machine placement heuristic for cloud data centers A dynamic evolutionary multi-objective virtual machine placement heuristic for cloud data centers (2020) E. Torre, J. Durillo, V. De Maio, P. Agrawal, S. Benedict, N. Saurabh, R. Prodan Journal of Information and Software Technology (INSOF) No Publisher selected to publication Putting users in control of their social media and online data Putting users in control of their social media and online data (2022) T. Editorial Team, R. Prodan The Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS) No Publisher selected to publication Expelliarmus: Semantic-centric virtual machine image management in IaaS Clouds Expelliarmus: Semantic-centric virtual machine image management in IaaS Clouds (2020) N. Saurabh, S. Benedict, J. Barbosa, R. Prodan Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) No Publisher selected to publication ARTICONF decentralized social media platform for democratic crowd journalism ARTICONF decentralized social media platform for democratic crowd journalism (2023) I. Rito Lima, V. Filipe, C. Marinho, A. Ulisses , A. Chakravorty, A. Hristov, N. Saurabh, Z. Zhao, R. Xin, R. Prodan Social Network Analysis and Mining No Publisher selected to publication The ARTICONF Approach to Decentralized Car-Sharing The ARTICONF Approach to Decentralized Car-Sharing (2021) N. Saurabh, C. Rubia, A. Palanisamy, S. Koulouzis, M. Sefidanoski, A. Chakravorty, Z. Zhao, A. Karadimce, R. Prodan Blockchain: Research and Applications No Publisher selected to publication Decentralized Social Media Applications as a Service: a Car-Sharing Perspective Decentralized Social Media Applications as a Service: a Car-Sharing Perspective (2020) A. Palanisamy, M. Sefidanoski, S. Koulouzis, C. Rubia, N. Saurabh, R. Prodan Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) No Publisher selected to publication MCred: multi-modal message credibility for fake news detection using BERT and CNN MCred: multi-modal message credibility for fake news detection using BERT and CNN (2022) P. Verma, P. Agrawal, V. Madaan, R. Prodan Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing No Publisher selected to publication
Events	ARTICONF: kick-off meeting ARTICONF: kick-off meeting R. Prodan, M. Steinbacher, N. Saurabh Klagenfurt , Österreich 08.01.2019 - 10.01.2019 To event
Lectures	Context-aware Community Evolution Prediction in Online Social Networks Context-aware Community Evolution Prediction in Online Social Networks N. Saurabh, R. Prodan, A. Lercher Melbourne , Australien since 17.12.2022 To Lecture A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Radu Prodan about the future of Social Media Networks A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Radu Prodan about the future of Social Media Networks R. Prodan Klagenfurt , Österreich since 29.01.2020 To Lecture Decentralized and Safe Carsharing in the Social Continuum: the ARTICONF Approach Decentralized and Safe Carsharing in the Social Continuum: the ARTICONF Approach R. Prodan since 11.05.2022 To Lecture ARTICONF: Smart Social Media Ecosystem in a Blockchain Federated Environment ARTICONF: Smart Social Media Ecosystem in a Blockchain Federated Environment R. Prodan since 19.05.2022 To Lecture Democratic Trustworthy News in the Social Continuum: the ARTICONF Approach Democratic Trustworthy News in the Social Continuum: the ARTICONF Approach R. Prodan since 16.05.2022 To Lecture Are social media changing our brains? Towards an interdisciplinary view on Social Media Are social media changing our brains? Towards an interdisciplinary view on Social Media R. Prodan since 07.10.2019 To Lecture ARTICONF: A Cloud-agnostic Blockchain-as-a-Service for Social Continuum ARTICONF: A Cloud-agnostic Blockchain-as-a-Service for Social Continuum R. Prodan since 09.12.2021 To Lecture Keynote: Distribute One Billion Keynote: Distribute One Billion R. Prodan since 02.12.2021 To Lecture SMART: a Tool for Trust and Reputation Management in Social Media SMART: a Tool for Trust and Reputation Management in Social Media N. Saurabh, M. Rasinger, H. Fard, R. Prodan since 31.08.2021 To Lecture Multilayer Resource-aware Partitioning for Fog Application Placement Multilayer Resource-aware Partitioning for Fog Application Placement Z. Najafabadi Samani, N. Saurabh, R. Prodan since 10.05.2021 To Lecture The H2020 Project ARTICONF The H2020 Project ARTICONF N. Saurabh since 26.08.2019 To Lecture Semantics-Aware Virtual Machine Image Management in IaaS Clouds Semantics-Aware Virtual Machine Image Management in IaaS Clouds N. Saurabh, J. Remmers, D. Kimovski, R. Prodan, j. Barbosa since 22.05.2019 To Lecture ARTICONF: Towards a Smart Social Media Ecosystem in a Blockchain Federated Environment ARTICONF: Towards a Smart Social Media Ecosystem in a Blockchain Federated Environment R. Prodan, N. Saurabh, Z. Zhao, K. Orton-Johnson, A. Chakravorty, A. Karadimce, A. Ulisses since 26.08.2019 To Lecture Decentralized Social Media Applications as a Service: a Car-Sharing Perspective Decentralized Social Media Applications as a Service: a Car-Sharing Perspective A. Palanisamy, M. Sefidanoski, S. Koulouzis, C. Rubia, N. Saurabh, R. Prodan since 07.07.2020 To Lecture More democratic, transparent and reliable: the next generation social media More democratic, transparent and reliable: the next generation social media R. Prodan, K. Orton-Johnson since 29.01.2020 To Lecture Towards a semantic-centric VMI repository management Towards a semantic-centric VMI repository management N. Saurabh since 24.05.2019 To Lecture A Semantic Model with Self-Adaptive and Autonomous Relevant Technology for Social Media Applications A Semantic Model with Self-Adaptive and Autonomous Relevant Technology for Social Media Applications Z. Najafabadi Samani, A. Lercher, N. Saurabh, R. Prodan since 26.08.2019 To Lecture