Confidential benchmarking (COBE)

PROJECT IS COMPLETED
Project period: 1 July 2010 - 31 December 2013

COBE is a research project that focus on research and development of bechmarking mechanisms based on distributed cryptography. Distributed cryptography makes it possible to use private information in advanved benchmarking models without revealing the private information to anyone. The project consists of economists, computer scientists and industrial partners within the shipping and the financial sector. The research relates to the following three fields:

  1. Game theory and mechanism design
  2. Mathematical benchmarking
  3. Distributed cryptography

The focus will be both on generic solutions as well as the real life challenges faced by our industrial partners. To mention two main topics, the real life challenges will involve:

  1. Confidential measuring and learning of best practice in environmental friendly shipping.
  2. Confidental benchmarking in the financial sector in order to enhance the transparency an the Interbanking market.

The research and industry partners involved in COBE are:

  • University of Aarhus: Computer Science, Economics and Aarhus Business School
  • Copenhagen Business School
  • University of Copenhagen, Institute of Food and Resource Economics
  • The Alexandra Institute
  • The Danish Shipowners
  • The Danish Bankers Association
  • CFIR: Copenhagen as Financial IT Region

IFRO coordinator

Name Title Phone E-mail
Jens Leth Hougaard Professor +4535336814 E-mail

Coordinator of the total project:

Ivan Bjerre Damgård, Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University

IFRO participant:

Kurt Nielsen

The project was funded by:

COBE has received funding from The Danish Council for Independent Research | Technology and Production Sciences
Main applicant is Ivan Damgård, University of Aarhus, Computer Science.

Amount: DKK 4.774.040 (for the total project)

Project starts: 1 July 2010

Project ends: 31 June 2013