Parrot project

The Parrot project is an international collaboration between the University of Oslo (Norway), the Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany), and the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) funded by the Research Council of Norway (2020 – 2023).

The goal of the Parrot project is providing tools for real-time data analysis applications that leverage this “middle ground”. Data analysts should only be required to specify their data needs and end-users can select the privacy requirements for their data as well as the applications and end-users they want to share their data with. The project results are expected to enable the (semi-)automatic integration of appropriate privacy protection into real-time data stream applications. Thus, individuals can safely provide data which in turn improves the results of big data applications.

Scientific and technical challenges that are addressed in this research project include:

• Expressing and matching of privacy concerns of end-users and data quality requirements for data analytic.
• Characterizing privacy protecting mechanisms in terms of protection level and impact onto data quality.
• (Semi-)automatic rewriting of queries for Complex Event Processing (CEP) systems and automatic placement of operator graphs in distributed (mobile) CEP systems under security and privacy concerns.
• Design and implementation of a fully decentralized and trustworthy overlay for distributed CEP systems.
• Experimental and empirical evaluation of solutions developed in the project.

For further inquiries concerning the Parrot project please contact the project manager Professor Thomas Plagemann at the University of Oslo (plageman@ifi.uio.no).