INF5370 - Spring 2014

List of Topics

Following are the list of topics for seminars and the papers that will be discussed for each topic.

 

1. Analysis of Data and Relations in Social Networks

  1. Alan Mislove, Massimiliano Marcon, Krishna P. Gummadi, Peter Druschel, and Bobby Bhattacharjee. Measurement and analysis of online social networks. IMC 2007. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1298306.1298311
  2. Haewoon Kwak, Changhyun Lee, Hosung Park, and Sue Moon. What is Twitter, a social network or a news media?. WWW 2010). http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1772690.1772751

2. Dynamics in Social Networks

  1. Valerio Arnaboldi, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella, Robin Dunbar. Dynamics of Personal Social Relationships in Online Social Networks: a Study on Twitter. in COSN 2013 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2512938.2512949
  2. Eytan Bakshy, Jake M. Hofman, Winter A. Mason, and Duncan J. Watts. Everyone's an influencer: quantifying influence on twitter. WSDM 2011. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1935826.1935845 

3. Architectural Approaches for Social Networks

  1. Marin Bertier, Davide Frey, Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec and Vincent Leroy. The Gossple Anonymous Social Network. Middleware 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16955-7_10
  2. Bernard Wong and Saikat Guha. 2008. Quasar: a probabilistic publish-subscribe system for social networks. IPTPS 2008. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1855641.1855643  Alternative link: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~bwong/quasar-iptps.pdf

4. Mobile Social Networking

  1. Patrick Stuedi, Iqbal Mohomed, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Rama Ramasubramanian, Ted Wobber, Doug Terry and Morley Mao. Contrail: Enabling Decentralized Social Networks on Smartphones. Middleware 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25821-3_3
  2. Daniele Quercia, Ilias Leontiadis, Liam McNamara, Cecilia Mascolo and Jon Crowcroft. SpotME If You Can: Randomized Responses for Location Obfuscation on Mobile Phones. ICDCS 2011. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~dq209/publications/spotme.pdf

5. Crowdsourcing and its Applications

  1. Gang Wang, Manish Mohanlal, Christo Wilson, Xiao Wang, Miriam J. Metzger, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao. Social Turing Tests: Crowdsourcing Sybil Detection. NDSS 2013. http://internetsociety.org/doc/social-turing-tests-crowdsourcing-sybil-detection
  2. Michael J. Franklin, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Sukriti Ramesh, Reynold Xin: CrowdDB: answering queries with crowdsourcing. SIGMOD Conference 2011. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1989323.1989331 [Alternate link: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~franklin/Papers/CrowdDBSigmod11.pdf]

6. Privacy and Security - I

  1. Dongtao Liu, Amre Shakimov, Ramón Cáceres, Alexander Varshavsky, and Landon P. Cox. Confidant: protecting OSN data without locking it up. Middleware 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25821-3_4
  2. Tomas Isdal, Michael Piatek, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Thomas Anderson. Privacy-preserving P2P data sharing with OneSwarm. SIGCOMM 2010. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1851182.1851198

7. Privacy and Security - II

  1. Ian Clarke, Oskar Sandberg, Brandon Wiley, and Theodore W. Hong. Freenet: a distributed anonymous information storage and retrieval system. In International workshop on Designing privacy enhancing technologies: design issues in anonymity and unobservability 2001. http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~zmao/eecs589/papers/freenet.pdf
  2. Abhishek Singh, Guido Urdaneta, Maarten van Steen and Roman Vitenberg. Robust Overlays for Privacy-Preserving Data Dissemination over a Social Graph. ICDCS 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icdcs.2012.57

8. Privacy and Security - III

  1. Randy Baden, Adam Bender, Neil Spring, Bobby Bhattacharjee, and Daniel Starin. Persona: an online social network with user-defined privacy. SIGCOMM 2009. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1592568.1592585
  2. Ariel J. Feldman, Aaron Blankstein, Michael J. Freedman, and Edward W. Felten. Social networking with frientegrity: privacy and integrity with an untrusted provider. Security 2012. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity12/sec12-final67.pdf

9. Tools for Social Networking Infrastructures

  1. Avinash Lakshman and Prashant Malik. Cassandra: a decentralized structured storage system. SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. 44, 2 (April 2010). http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1773912.1773922
  2. Berk Atikoglu, Yuehai Xu, Eitan Frachtenberg. Song Jiang, Mike Paleczny. Workload Analysis of a Large-Scale Key-Value Store. SIGMETRICS 2012. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2254756.2254766 [alternative: http://www.ece.eng.wayne.edu/~sjiang/pubs/papers/atikoglu12-memcached.pdf]
  3. Jay Kreps, Neha Narkhede, Jun Rao. Kafka: A Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing, in proceedings of NetDB 2011 https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/srikanth/netdb11/netdb11papers/netdb11-final12.pdf

10. Storage and Caching Solutions for Serving Photos in Social Networks

  1. Doug Beaver, Sanjeev Kumar, Harry C. Li, Jason Sobel, and Peter Vajgel. 2010. Finding a needle in Haystack: facebook's photo storage. OSDI 2010. http://www.usenix.org/event/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Beaver.pdf
  2. Qi Huang, Ken Birman, Robbert VanRenesse, Wyatt Lloyd, Sanjeev Kumar, Harry Li, An Analysis of Facebook Photo Caching, SOSP 2013, http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2517349.2522722. [alternative: https://www.facebook.com/download/759460794071185/sosp_fbanalysis.pdf]

11. Storage Techniques for Social Graph

  1. Josep M. Pujol, Vijay Erramilli, Georgos Siganos, Xiaoyuan Yang, Nikos Laoutaris, Parminder Chhabra, and Pablo Rodriguez. The little engine(s) that could: scaling online social networks. SIGCOMM 2010. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1851275.1851227
  2. Nathan Bronson, Zach Amsden, George Cabrera, Prasad Chakka, Peter Dimov, Hui Ding, Jack Ferris, Anthony Giardullo, Sachin Kulkarni, Harry Li, Mark Marchukov, Dmitri Petrov, Lovro Puzar, Yee Jiun Song, Venkat Venkataramani. TAO: Facebook’s Distributed Data Store for the Social Graph. In USENIX ATC 2013. https://www.facebook.com/publications/507347362668177/

12. Content Distribution Using P2P Techniques

  1. Dave Levin, Katrina LaCurts, Neil Spring, and Bobby Bhattacharjee. Bittorrent is an auction: analyzing and improving bittorrent's incentives. SIGCOMM 2008). http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1402958.1402987
  2. Gunnar Kreitz and Fredrik Niemela. 2010. Spotify - Large Scale, Low Latency, P2P Music-on-Demand Streaming. In Proceedings of IEEE P2P 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/P2P.2010.5569963

 

 

 

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