End-to-End Semantic Accountability & TAMI Project

Face-to-Face Meeting

DRAFT Agenda

12 - 13 July 2007

32-D463 (aka Star) (12 July)
Bleil Boardroom, 32-G601 (13 July for DTO site visit)
MIT Stata Center
Cambridge, MA USA

Logistics

Timing: 0930 - 1830

Coordinates: IRC: irc.freenode.net#tami

Attendees Expected:

• Hal Abelson
• Tim Berners-Lee?
• Dan Connolly (10am-1pm, by phone)
• Li Ding
• Joan Feigenbaum
• Jen Golbeck
• Chris Hanson
• Jim Hendler
• Lalana Kagal
• Yosi Scharf
• Gerry Sussman
• K. Krasnow Waterman
• Danny Weitzner
• <RPI Student>

Schedule

Day 1 - Thursday

Boot up [9:15 - 9:30]

Welcome and Introductions [9:30 - 9:45]

• introductions
• meeting goals
• scribing
• other logistics (timing, meals, etc.)
• orientation to deliverables

A. Key Project Components

[20 minute presentations and 20 minutes for discussion of each.]

1. Policy Language Outline (Lalana) [10:00 - 10:40]
   • presentation: requirements of policy language and sample syntax
   • discussion
2. System Architecture (Chris) [10:40 - 11:20]
   • presentation: Current architecture and system components
   • discussion
3. Scenarios -- #9 (KKW & LD) [11:40 - 12:20]
   • Description (K)
   • RDF Representation and example (Li)
4. CWM Status (Tim & Yosi) [12:20 - 1:00]
   • plans for cwm this year
   • plans for teaching cwm the policy language

B. Related Work

1. Dependency Systems (Gerry) [2:00 - 2:30]
   • presentation: new work from Gerry and Chris on dependency tracking
   • discussion
2. Provenance (Jen Golbeck) [2:30 - 3:00]
   • presentation
   • discussion

C. Publication Plans and Educational Activities [3:30-4:15]

• MIT: 6.805 and masters adjunct (Hal)
• publication opportunities and identification of lead authors

D. Project Planning [4:15 - 5:15]

• review deliverables and milestones
• code repository
• discuss dependencies and agree

E. Site Visit Planning [5:15 - 6:15]

Initial plan:[agenda]

• Project Goals and Overview (Danny)
• Policy Language and System Architecture (Chris and Lalana)
• Policies and Rules on the Web (Jim)
• How this is different from traditional security research (Joan)
• Discussion of project metrics (all)

F. Scheduling [6:15 - 6:30]

• Weekly class
• FTF meetings
  • quarterly:
• NICECAP PI meetings
• TAMI Advisory Board

Day 2 - Friday

PIs in site visit, others working

Each day:

11:00 - 11:15 Break

12:30 - 13:00 Lunch

3:30 - 4:00 Break

18:30 Adjourn

19:30 Dinner (Thursday night only)

Location TBA

Required Reading

• REI+ draft specification [pending]
• Weitzner, Abelson, Berners-Lee, Feigenbaum, Hendler, Sussman, Information Accountability, MIT CSAIL Technical Report MIT-CSAIL-TR-2007 (13 June 2007) [DSpace Handle]
• Jennifer Golbeck, James Hendler. 2007. A Semantic Web and Trust Approach to the Provenance Challenge. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, to appear.>
• End-to-End Semantic Accoountability Technical Proposal
• TAMI-Portia Workshop report
• Lalana Kagal, Tim Berners-Lee, Dan Connolly, and Daniel Weitzner, Using Semantic Web Technologies for Policy Management on the Web, 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), July 16 - 20, 2006.
• Hanson, Berners-Lee, Kagal, Sussman, Weitzner, Data-Purpose Algebra: Modeling Data Usage Policies, accepted by IEEE Policy07
• Lalana Kagal, Tim Berners-Lee, Dan Connolly, and Daniel Weitzner, Self-describing Delegation Networks for the Web, IEEE Workshop on Policy for Distributed Systems and Networks (IEEE Policy), 5 - 7 June 2006.
• Weitzner, Abelson, Berners-Lee, Hanson, Hendler, Kagal, McGuinness, Sussman, Waterman, Transparent Accountable Data Mining: New Strategies for Privacy Protection,; MIT CSAIL Technical Report MIT-CSAIL-TR-2006-007 [DSpace handle] (27 January 2006).
• Weitzner, Hendler, Berners-Lee, Connolly, Creating the Policy-Aware Web: Discretionary, Rules-based Access for the World Wide Web