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April 7, 2022: Enabling Personalized Interventions (EPI)

Consortium Meeting and contributions at ICT.Open.

Consortium meeting:
When Thursday, April 7th 2022
Where @ ICT.OPEN in the Rai, Amsterdam
Abstract
 Consortium  and dissemination meeting
Agenda
11:30 Start Quarterly Consortium Meeting
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Eline van Dulm
 Welcome, overview of EPI
slides
11:40 Presentations PhD students


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 Rosanne Turner
 RQ1-2: Real-time evidence collection in data streams
slides


Saba Amiri RQ4: Private Federated Machine Learning The EPI Project.
slides


Milen Girma Kebede
 RQ5: Automating regulatory constraints and data governance in healthcare
slides


Jamila Alsayed Kassem
 RQ6: The EPI Framework: A dynamic infrastructure to support healthcare use cases.
slides


Tim Muller
 Brane status update
slides


Corinne Allaart RQ3: Vertically partitioned machine learning for prediction of cerebrovascular accident (CVA) rehabilitation.
slides
12:40 EPI Proof Of Concept



Marc van Meel EPI PoC – collaboration UMCU & St. Antonius

12:55 Any other business

13:00 Closure


Presentations presented at ICT.Open

Abstract: Towards a policy enforcement infrastructure using eFLINT (Slides) by Lu-Chi Liu.

Organizations are required to be compliant to national and international privacy regulations to protect data subject's personal data. Therefore, we need authorisation systems that can capture and enforce privacy regulations. This work focuses on the design and implementation of an authorisation system that can enforce conditions, authorisations and obligations from legal norms. In previous work, we employ eFLINT, a domain specific language, to capture policies extracted from a regulatory document that governs members of the SIOPE DIPG/DMG Network, a healthcare use-case. The language allows for the reuse of specifications which is shown by reusing the GDPR and DIPG regulatory document interchangeably. Additionally, we generate system level eFLINT policies, such as read and write policies, from social policies.
We are currently working on a prototype for the DIPG Registry. The prototype is designed using two approaches, either by implementing the eFLINT reasoner as a Policy Administration Point(PAP) or as a Policy Decision Point(PDP). In the first approach, eFLINT can be used to create policies and generate enforceable XACML policies. XACML has several limitations when it comes to specifying rules from legal norms. Using eFLINT as a PAP can mitigate these issues as an extension to the XACML architecture. In the second approach, eFLINT reasoner can be used as both the PAP and PDP. When used as PDP, the Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) signals every access request or system event to the eFLINT reasoner. The eFLINT reasoner evaluates requests or events against deployed eFLINT rules and makes access decisions.

Posters presented at ICT.Open

EPI Framework: Approach for traffic redirection through containerised network functions

Jamila Alsayed Kassem

On the road towards personalised medicine, secure data-sharing is an essential prerequisite to enable healthcare use-cases (e.g. training and sharing machine learning models, wearables data-streaming, etc.). On the other hand, working in silos is still dominating today’s health data usage. A significant challenge to address here, is to set up a collaborative data-sharing environment that will support the requested application while also ensur- ing uncompromised security across communicating nodes. We need a framework that can adapt the underlying infrastructure taking into account norms and policy agreements, requested application workflow, and network and security policies. The framework should process and map those requirements into setup actions. On a low packet level, the framework should be able to enforce the setup route via intercepting and redirecting traffic.

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Impact of non-lID data on the performance and fairness of deferentially private federated learning.

Saba Amiri

Federated Learning enables distributed data holders to train a shared machine learning model on their collective data. It provides some measure of privacy by negating the need for the participants to share their private data, but still has been shown in the literature to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Differential Privacy has been shown to provide rigorous guarantees and sufficient protection against different kinds of adversarial attacks and has been widely employed in recent years to perform privacy preserving machine learning. One common trait in many of recent methods on federated learning and federated differentially private learning is the assumption of IID data, which in real world scenarios most certainly does not hold true. In this work, we perform comprehensive empirical investigation on the effect of non-IID data on federated, differentially private, deep learning. We show the non IID data to have a negative impact on both performance and fairness of the trained model and discuss the trade off between privacy, utility and fairness. Our results highlight the limits of common federated learning algorithms in a differentially private setting to provide robust, reliable results across underrepresented groups.