Welcome!

After a big time as a Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), I'm delighted to join the ASG at the CUI of the University of Geneva, which shares history with Savoy, ma native region (actually I also teach a peer-to-peer master course at the University of Savoie). I was born in Megève, one of the 12 best of the Alps ski resorts, 60 kilometers from Geneva.

I own a PhD in Computer Science from TCD, a master in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) and an MSc in Computer Science (Networks and Distributed Systems) from TCD. Before my affiliation with universities, I worked for Hewlett-Packard (in China on the connection of production lines of medical devices to the worldwide HP intranet and in France on R&D projects of the HP Business Desktop division). I underwent military service in the 7th Battalion of Chasseurs Alpins (historically known as Blue Devils).

If you'd like to hear about computational trust technology transfer and meaningful trustworthy computing, I recommend: http://www.trustcomp.org/

Please drop me a line to discuss new ventures and collaborations at
Jean-Marc.Seigneur@trustcomp.org!

• Invited talks, presentations and consulting:

Nokia (Finland), Philips Research (The Netherlands), OpenBC (Germany), Hewlett-Packard (France), (MIT) Media Lab Europe (Ireland), MDF (France), Ericsson Systems Expertise (Ireland), DIT (Ireland), Philips Remote Control Systems (Belgium), AIFB (Germany), Amazon (USA)...

• Research Activities:
  • Evaluator/Reviewer of EU-funded R&D projects for the European Commission (projects of several millions of Euro)
  • International Expert Reviewer for the proposals submitted to the ANR French security research calls (5 millions Euro in 2006...)
  • IEEE Conference Presenter Certificate 2005
  • ACM Certificates of Appreciation 2005 and 2006
  • Member of the ERCIM Working Group on Security and Trust Management
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing by American Scientific Publishers
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal for Infonomics
  • Member of various program committees: IFIP International Workshop on Formal Aspects in Security and Trust, IEEE INFOCOM, International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC), ARES, SecPerU, PST, IFIP International Conference on Trust Management, ACM SAC, IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet, the IARIA SECURWARE, the IEEE International Symposium on Security in Networks and Distributed Systems...
  • Organiser of the Workshop on Security through Collaboration called SECOVAL at the IEEE SECURECOMM International Conference
  • Track co-chair of the "Trust, Recommendations, Evidence and other Collaboration Know-how (TRECK)" track of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing , for example see the selected papers of the ACM SAC 2005 TRECK Track, which are part of a Special Issue of the International Journal for Infonomics
  • I have reviewed papers for:
  • Elsevier Journal of Science of Computer Programming
  • Elsevier Journal of Decision Support Systems
  • ACM Transactions on Autonomous Adaptive Systems
  • ACM Transactions on the Web
  • IEEE Internet Computing
  • IEEE Policy
  • LNCS UML
  • LNCS Ubisys
  • International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST)
  • IEEE SECOVAL
  • SecPerU
  • INCOM
  • ACM SAC
  • INFOCOM
  • AAMAS PSACE
  • UBICOMP
  • FAST
  • IEEE ATC
  • ...

Projects

I've contributed to 7 European projects so far. The goal of the EDOS (Environment for Distribution of Open source Software) project was to employ a peer-to-peer solution for the controlled distribution of open source code. I have been delighted to contribute to the open source community.

Before leaving TCD, I took care of decentralised user-centric identity for the EU-funded collaborative research project investigating the design of a Digital Business Ecosystem for micro, small and medium enterprises, crucial elements for a successful knowledge network economy.

I worked on another EU project called SECURE (Secure Environments for Collaboration among Ubiquitous Roaming Entities). The SECURE project investigated the design of dynamic and self-configuring security mechanisms that are appropriate for global computing based on the human notions of trust.

I also contributed to the PEARL (Practical Experimentation by Accessible Remote Learning) EU project.

Courses

Programmation de Systèmes, Programmation Objet, Services Internet, e-Reputation, Peer-to-peer at BSc., Licence and Master levels

• Daniel Solis (graduated MSc at Trinity College Dublin, the outcome of the supervision allowed him to be a co-author at an international research conference, which is nice for his CV)
• Pierpaolo Dondio (PhD at Trinity College Dublin, I advised him concerning computational trust background and he is now getting good results in the field)
• Michel Deriaz (PhD at the University of Geneva)
• Luminita Moraru (PhD at the University of Geneva)
• Henry Imaze Ehi (PhD student at the University of Geneva)
• Tewfiq El Maliki (PhD student at the University of Geneva)
• Xavier Titi (PhD student at the University of Geneva)
• Carlos Ballester Lafuente (PhD student at the University of Geneva)
• ...

Publications (This list is not up to date, contact me if you really want my publications list ;-)

• Books/Editor:

1. "User-Centric Identity, Trust and Privacy", J.-M. Seigneur and C. D. Jensen, blind peer-reviewed accepted book chapter of "Trust in E-services: Technologies, Practices and Challenges", Idea Group Publishing, 2007.
2. "Selected papers of the ACM SAC 2005 TRECK Track", Special Issue, International Journal for Infonomics.
3. "Security in Exotic Wireless Networks", S. Farrell, J-M. Seigneur and C.D. Jensen, a chapter of a book of the NATO Computer and Systems Sciences Series III, vol.193 "Security and Privacy in Advanced Networking Technologies", ISBN 1 58603 430 8, ISSN, 1 387-6694, IOS Press, 2004.

• Journal/Magazine papers:
  1. "Trust Evolution Policies for Security in Collaborative Ad Hoc Applications", E. Gray, C. D. Jensen, P. O'Connell, S. Weber, J.-M. Seigneur and Yong Chen, in Electr. Notes Theor. Comput. Sci., 157(3): 95-111, 2006.
  2. "Decentralized Identity for the Digital Business Ecosystem", J.-M. Seigneur, in ERCIM News, No. 63, 2005.
  3. "Fostering Sustainability via Trust Engines", J.-M. Seigneur, in Technology and Society, vol. 24(1), IEEE, 2005.
  4. "The Claim Tool Kit for Ad-hoc Recognition of Peer Entities", J.-M. Seigneur and C. D. Jensen, in the Journal of Science of Computer Programming, Elsevier, 2004.
  5. "Privacy Recovery with Disposable Email Addresses", J.-M. Seigneur, C. D. Jensen, in IEEE Security&Privacy, special issue on Understanding Privacy, November-December 2003.
     Selected for the special press release of the issue!
  6. "Using Trust for Secure Collaboration in Uncertain Environments", V. Cahill, et al., in Pervasive Computing Mobile And Ubiquitous Computing, vol. 2(3), July-September, IEEE, 2003.
• Conference papers:
  1. "Trust and Security in Spatial Messaging: FoxyTag, the Speed Camera Case Study", Michel Deriaz and Jean-Marc Seigneur, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, ACM [to appear], 2006.
  2. "Extracting Trust from Domain Analysis: a Case Study on Wikipedia Project", Pierpaolo Dondio, Stephen Barrett, Stefan Weber and Jean-Marc Seigneur, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing, IEEE, 2006.
  3. "Computational Trust to Further Reduce the Complexity of the Higher Education Common Space", J.-M. Seigneur, P. Dondio, S. Weber and S. Barrett, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering and Computer Education, IEEE, 2005.
  4. "Trust Transfer: Encouraging Self-Recommendations without Sybil Attack", J.-M. Seigneur, A. Gray, and C. D. Jensen, in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Trust Management, LNCS, Springer, 2005.
  5. "Towards an Evaluation Methodology for Computational Trust Systems", C. Bryce, J.-M. Seigneur, N. Dimmock, W. Wagealla, K. Krukow and V. Cahill, in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Trust Management, LNCS, Springer, 2005.
  6. "A Case Study Implementation of a Trust Engine", C. Bryce, P. Couderc, J.-M. Seigneur, and V. Cahill, in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Trust Management, LNCS, Springer, 2005.
  7. "Default Free Introduction, Rare Self-Introduction Fee, Costly Spoofing: No Profitable Spam", J.-M. Seigneur and A. Gray, in Proceedings of the EUROPRIX Scholars Conference, Tampere, Finland, 2004.
  8. "Combating Spam with TEA (Trustworthy Email Addresses)", J.-M. Seigneur, N. Dimmock, C. Bryce and C. D. Jensen, in Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, Canada, 2004.
  9. "Ambient Intelligence through Image Retrieval", J.-M. Seigneur, D. Solis and F. Shevlin, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, LNCS 3115, Springer-Verlag, 2004.
  10. "Interacting with Trust in Ambient Intelligence / Interaction en AmI avec Moteur de Confiance", J.-M. Seigneur, in Proceedings of the first UbiMob Conference, ACM, 2004.
  11. "Trading Privacy for Trust", J.-M. Seigneur and C. D. Jensen,  in Proceedings of iTrust'04 the International Conference on Trust Management, LNCS 2995, Springer-Verlag, 2004.
  12. "Trust Enhanced Ubiquitous Payment without Too Much Privacy Loss", J.-M. Seigneur and C. D. Jensen, in Proceedings of the 19th SAC, Nicosia, Cyprus, ACM, 2004.
  13. "Towards Security Auto-Configuration for Smart Appliances", J.-M. Seigneur, C. D. Jensen, S. Farrell, E. Gray, and Y. Chen, in Proceedings of the Smart Objects Conference, Grenoble, France, 2003.
  14. "End-to-end Trust Starts with Recognition", J.-M. Seigneur, S. Farrell, C. D. Jensen, E. Gray, and Y. Chen, in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Security in Pervasive Computing, Boppard, Germany, LNCS 2802, Springer-Verlag, 2003.
  15. "P2p with JXTA-Java Pipes", J.-M. Seigneur, G. Biegel, C. D. Jensen, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Programming in Java, ACM, 2003.
  16. "Trust Propagation in Small Worlds", E. Gray, J.-M. Seigneur, Y. Chen, and C. D. Jensen, in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Trust Management, LNCS 2692, Springer-Verlag, 2003.
  17. "PEARL: a Generic Architecture for Live Experiments in a Remote Laboratory", Tilman Schäfer, Jean-Marc Seigneur, Alexis Donnelly, in SCS International Conference on Simulation and Multimedia in Engineering Education, ICSEE'03, Florida, 2003.
• Workshop papers:
  1. "Towards Trustworthy Spatial Messaging", Michel Deriaz and Jean-Marc Seigneur, in Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Security and Trust Management, ERCIM, ENTCS, 2006.
  2. "Demonstration of Security through Collaboration in the Digital Business Ecosystem", J.-M. Seigneur, in Proceedings of the IEEE SECOVAL Workshop, IEEE, 2005.
  3. "Trust Evolution Policies for Security in Collaborative Ad Hoc Applications", Elizabeth Gray, Christian Jensen, Paul O'Connell, Stefan Weber, Jean-Marc Seigneur and Yong Chen, in Proceedings of the 1st ERCIM Workshop on Security and Trust Management, 2005.
  4. "The REL Project: Mobile-based Reliable Relations", J.-M. Seigneur, P. G. Argyroudis, D. O'Callaghan, and J. Abendroth, in Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend, Social Networking and the Semantic Web, 2004.
  5. "The Role of Identity in Pervasive Computational Trust", Jean-Marc Seigneur and Christian D. Jensen, in Proceedings of the Security and Privacy in Pervasive Computing Workshop (Second International Pervasive Conference), Kluwer, 2004.
  6. "Towards Trustworthy EcoComputing", Jean-Marc Seigneur, in the Sustainable Pervasive Computing Workshop of the Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing.
  7. "Bank Accounting and Ubiquitous Brokering of Trustos", Jean-Marc Seigneur, Joerg Abendroth, Christian Damsgaard Jensen, in 7th CaberNet Radicals Workshop, Bertinoro, Italy, 2002.
  8. "Secure Ubiquitous Computing Based on Entity Recognition", Jean-Marc Seigneur, Stephen Farrell, Christian Damsgaard Jensen, in Ubicomp2002 Security Workshop, Göteborg, Sweden, 2002.
• Technical reports:
  1. "Trust, Security and Privacy in Global Computing", J.-M. Seigneur, Trinity College Dublin, PhD Thesis, 2005.
  2. "HOUSe-KEEPER, a Vendor-independent Architecture for Easy Management of Smart Homes", Jean-Marc Seigneur, MSc dissertation, Computer Science Technical Report TCD-CS-2001-42, Trinity College Dublin, 2001.
  3. "SECURE Framework Architecture (Beta)", J-M. Seigneur, V. Cahill, C. D. Jensen, E. Gray, Y. Chen, Technical Report TCD-CS-2004-07, Trinity College Dublin, 2004.
  4. "PR3 Email Honeypot", J.-M. Seigneur, A. Lambert, P. G. Argyroudis, and C. D. Jensen, Technical Report TCD-CS-2003-39, Trinity College Dublin, 2003.
  5. "A General Risk Assessment of Security in Pervasive Computing",  Yong Chen, Christian Damsgaard Jensen, Elizabeth Gray, Vinny Cahill and Jean-Marc Seigneur, Technical Report TCD-CS-2003-45, Trinity College Dublin, 2003.
  6. "Risk Probability Estimating Based on Clustering", Y. Chen, C. D. Jensen, E. Gray and J.-M. Seigneur, in Proceedings of the 4th Annual IEEE Information Assurance Workshop, 2003.
  7. "Towards a Framework for Assessing Trust-Based Admission Control in Collaborative Ad Hoc Applications", E. Gray, P. O'Connell, C. D. Jensen, S. Weber, J. M. Seigneur, and Y. Chen, Technical Report TCD-CS-2002-66, Trinity College Dublin, 2002.
   
• European Union deliverables:
  1. IST-2002-507953 DBE project:
     • Task C18 (main author): DBE Distributed Identity System
  2. IST-2001-32486 SECURE project:
     • D4.2 (main author): Framework Architecture
     • D4.1 (main author): Entity Recognition Scheme
     • D5.1 (contributor): Application Scenarios
  3. IST-1999-12550 PEARL project:
     • D6.3 (contributor): Remote Experiment Jig: Manufacturing Engineering
     • D7.5 (contributor): Software for Manufacturing Engineering Training
     • D8.5 (contributor): User Interface Technician’s PC
• Misc:             
  • I have authored short articles in French newsletters on building automation and home networking: www.domotique-news.com (an English version may also be "available")
  • Jxta benchmark committer work: "Jxta Pipes Performance", Jean-Marc Seigneur, www.jxta.org, 2002
  • My TCD MSc thesis:

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