Date

Lecture Topics

Speakers & Notes

Reading

M 3/30

Intro

Kuzmanovic

(ppt)

 W 4/1

Overview

Defense:

Yong Wang

Offense:

Ionut Trestian

Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks, by A. Mislove  et al.

M 4/6

Forums

Defense:

Marcel Flores

Offense:

Gregory Peaker

Knowledge Sharing and Yahoo Answers: Everyone Knows Something, by L. A. Adamic et al.

W 4/8

Forums

Defense:

Alok Rokkhit

Offense:

Alice Miller

Statistical Analysis of the Social Network and Discussion Threads in Slashdot, by V. Gómez et al.

M 4/13

Blogs

Defense:

Jared Sax

Offense:

Kai Chen

Cascading Behavior in Large Blog Graphs Patterns and a model, by J. Leskovec at al.

W 4/15

Blogs

Defense:

Peter Kamm

Offense:

Ionut Trestian

Traffic Characteristics and Communication Patterns in Blogosphere, by F. Duarte at al.

M 4/20

Instant Messenger

Defense:

Alice Miller

Offense:

Kai Chen

Yes, There is a Correlation - From Social Networks to Personal Behavior on the Web, by P. Singla et al.

W 4/22

Instant Messenger 

Defense:

Chih-Hung Wu

Offense:

Marcel Flores 

Planetary-Scale Views on a Large Instant-Messaging Network, by J. Leskovec et al.

M 4/27

Rich Media

Defense:

Gregory Peaker

Offense:

Jared Sax

What Makes Conversations Interesting? Themes, Participants and Consequences of Conversations in Online Social Media, by M. D. Choudhury et al.

W 4/29

Rich Media

Defense:

Yong Wang

Offense:

Lin Zuo

A Measurement-driven Analysis of Information Propagation in the Flickr Social Network, by M. Cha et al.

M 5/4

Midterm Presentations

W 5/6

 Behavioral Advertising

Defense:

Kai Chen

Offense:

Alok Rokkhit

A Search-based Method for Forecasting Ad Impression in Contextual Advertising, by X. Wang et al.

M 5/11

 Behavioral Advertising

Defense:

Alice Miller

Offense:

Chih-Hung Wu

Online Expansion of Rare Queries for Sponsored Search, by A. Broder et al.

W 5/13

Social Mobility

Defense:

Alok Rokkhit

Offense:

Yong Wang

Mining Interesting Locations and Travel Sequences From GPS Trajectories, by Y. Zheng et al.

M 5/18

Social Mobility

Defense:

Gregory Peaker

Offense:

Peter Kamm

Are You Moved by Your Social Network Application,
by A. Mtibaa et al.

W 5/20

Privacy + Security

Defense:

Ionut Trestian

Offense:

Lin Zuo

To Join or Not to Join: The Illusion of Privacy in Social Networks with Mixed Public and Private User Profiles, by E. Zheleva et al.

W 5/27

Privacy + Security  

Defense:

Jared Sax

Offense:

Marcel Flores

Ostra Leveraging trust to thwart unwanted communication, by A. Mislove et al.

M 6/1

Project presentations

 Gregory Peaker

Marcel Flores & Peter Kamm

Kai Chen

W6/3

Project presentations