Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

EDF R&D (2013-2014)

Participants : Tristand Allard, Florent Masseglia, Esther Pacitti.

This project aims at developping new data mining techniques for P2P networks. The main goal is to preserve data privacy, while achieving good performance of analysis processes on the tackled data. More precisely, each participant in the P2P network has its own individual data (e.g. results of experiments for a scientific partner) and all the participants would like to acquire knowledge computed on the whole dataset (i.e., the union of all the individual data on the peers). Meanwhile, participants want a guarantee that no other participant will be able to see their data. The P2P protocol we have developped is now able to extract knowledge from the whole set of distributed data, while avoiding centralization, and guaranteeing data privacy for all peers. The work is currently the subject of a patent between EDF and Inria (patent number in progress).