View source for Advanced Topics in Social Network and Big Data Methods(Summer 2014)

== Details ==
{{CourseDetails
|credits=180h, 6 ECTS
|module=M.Inf.223: Seminar Telematik III ''-or-'' M.Inf.224: Seminar Computernetzewerke II (old Regulations); M.Inf.1222 (new Regulations); 3.10 - Advanced Topics in Internet Research (II)(ITIS)
|lecturer=[http://www.net.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/people/mayutan_arumaithurai Dr. Mayutan Arumaithurai]
|ta=[http://www.net.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/people/jiachen_chen Jiachen Chen]
|time=Fridays, 10.15 - 11.45. (Note: First meeting on 25.04.2014, see #Schedule below)
|place=IfI 3.101
|univz=[http://univz.uni-goettingen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung&veranstaltung.veranstid=88813]
}}

{{Announcement|'''Please follow our [[#Schedule]] to attend the initial meeting for our course on 25th April, 2014. Thanks.'''}}
{{Announcement|'''Our topics will be available soon. Please stay tuned and check this web page regularly. Thanks.'''}}

==General Reading Materials==

Mining of Massive Datasets [http://mmds.org/]

==Course Overview==
The purpose of this seminar is to discuss some advanced concepts in computer networking. This course is a research seminar (6 ECTS, 2 SWS), held on a weekly base and comprising the following components:
* Weekly paper reading and discussion + Weekly Presentation
* Final Presentation 
* Final report

The material in the seminar, drawn mainly from the research literature from top tier journal/conference, like ToN, TPDS, SIGCOMM, SIGMETRICS, IMC, WWW, CoNEXT. The seminar topics include the following:

Online Social Networking (Architecture, User Behavior, Data Collection, Data Analysis)

==List of Participants==
1) Sripriya Srikant
2) Gipsa Joseph
3) Florian Unger
4) Verena Honsel
5) Robert Kratel
6) Hemanth Karnal
7) Asif Uddin Ahmad
8) Ramaninder Singh Jhajj
9) Oteh Uche Ukeh
10) Azat Khuziya Khmetov
11) Gollapini Karthik

==Schedule==
* Friday, '''April 25th, 2014, 10.15 - 11.45''': Session 0 [basic problem in social networks]
** Introduction
*** Groups
*** Overview
**** 
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** Papers to Read and review
*** 1. WWW2013 best paper: No country for old members: user lifecycle and linguistic change in online communities [http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2488416] 
*** 2. What is Twitter, a social network or a news media? [http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1772751]
*** 3. Measurement and analysis of online social networks [http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1298311]
*** 4. The Link-Prediction Problem for Social Networks [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.20591/pdf]


*** 5. Analyzing the Video Popularity Characteristics of Large-Scale User Generated Content Systems [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=04801529]
*** 6. YouTube Around the World: Geographic Popularity of Videos [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ss824/pub/papers/www2012_youtube.pdf]
*** 7. Understanding the Characteristics of Internet Short Video Sharing: YouTube as a Case Study [http://arxiv.org/pdf/0707.3670.pdf&embedded=true]


*** 8. Robust dynamic classes revealed by measuring the response function of a social system [http://www.rieti.go.jp/en/events/09030501/pdf/5-4_E_Sornette_Paper1_o.pdf]
*** 9. Patterns of Temporal Variation in Online Media [http://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pubs/memeshapes-wsdm11.pdf]
*** 10. Predicting the Popularity of Online Content [http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/scl/papers/predictions/predictions.pdf]
*** 11. The Tube over Time: Characterizing Popularity Growth of YouTube Videos [http://www.decom.ufop.br/fabricio/download/wsdm11.pdf]






**** http://www.decom.ufop.br/fabricio/download/wsdm11.pdf


** Participants : 1-9


* Friday, '''May 2, 2014, 10.15 - 11.45''': Session 1
** We discussed at a high level all the papers (1,2,3,4) today. See the task assigned for next week. 
** Participants: 2,3,7,10



* Friday, '''May 9, 2014, 10.15 - 11.45''': Session 2 
** Read papers 1,2,3,4 at a high level as to how they collect data and basis statistics such as how large is the data set, what kind of properties do they have and etc. NOTE that you do not have to read all the papers in a lot of detail. But try to understand what kind of analysis they perform and why they do it and what is the outcome of such evaluations. 
** There is no need to submit a report this week too. 
** Participants: 1, 3, 8, 9, 11



* Friday, '''May 16, 2014, 10.15 - 11.45''': Session 3 
** Will be taken by Jiachen
** Read papers 5,6,7 at a high level. No need to write a report, but read all the papers and come. 
** Participants: 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 11



* Friday, '''May 23, 2014, 10.15 - 11.45''': Session 4
** Read papers 8,9,10,11 abstract, intro, related work and conclusion. Main goal is to try to understand what they aim to do, what is their motivation to do so and how they are different from existing work.
** We discussed some open issues from last week and then discussed papers 8,9. 
** Participants 2,3,8,9,11


  
* Friday, '''May 30, 2014, 10.00 - 11.30''': Session 5
** NOTE THAT THE CLASS WILL START SHARP AT 10am
** Group 1 presents Paper 8
** Group II presents Paper 9
** Those who missed Session 4: Please submit a review for Paper 8/9 by Wednesday (28th May) 
** Participants 1,2,3,8,11


* Friday, '''June 6, 2014, 10.15 - 11.45''': Session 6 
** We will discuss papers 10, 11. 
** Group I presents Paper 10
** Group II presents Paper 11
** Those who missed Session 5: Please submit a review for Paper 10/11 by Wednesday (4th June) 
** Participants: 1,2,3,8,9

* Friday, '''June 13, 2014, 10.15 - 11.45''': Session 7 (Papers on Brain Computer Interface by Xu Ren)
** Participants: 1,2,3,8,11
** Papers to Read and review (send a review for one of them by next Wednesday)
*** [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1652374/Advanced_seminaar_BCI_reading/Bashashati_2007_A%20survey%20of%20signal%20processing%20algorithmsin%20brain-computer%20interfaces.pdf]
*** [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1652374/Advanced_seminaar_BCI_reading/Blankertz_2008_Optimizing%20Spatial%20Filters%20for%20Robust%20EEG%20Signal-Trial%20Analysis.pdf]

* Friday, '''June 20, 2014, 10.15 - 11.45''': NOTE: NO SESSION

* Friday, '''June 27, 2014, 10.15 - 11.45''': Session 8 (Continuation of papers on Brain Computer Interface by Xu Ren)
** Participants: 
** Group 1 (Sripriya, florian, Uche) presents [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1652374/Advanced_seminaar_BCI_reading/Daly_2008_Brain%E2%80%93computer%20interfaces%20in%20neurological%20rehabilitation.pdf]
** Group 2 (Gipsa, Ramaninder, Gollapinni) presents [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ana.23879/pdf]
** Additionally, you can take a look at this [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1652374/Advanced_seminaar_BCI_reading/ana23879-sup-0004-suppinfo.doc]

* Friday, '''July 4, 2014, 9:00 - 12:00''': Session 9 (special session, you should attend the Goettingen-Nanjing Workshop)
** Nanjing-Goettingen Workshop on Social Computing
** Location: Sternwarte, Geismar Landstr. 11

* Friday, '''July 11, 2014, 10.15 - 11.45''': No Session (See Final presentation below)

==Final Presentations==
* List of Papers for Final presentation:
** Florian Unger: A Time-based Collective Factorization for Topic Discovery and Monitoring in News [http://www2014.kr/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/proceedings_p527.pdf]
** Gipsa Joseph: Quantifying Information Overload in Social Media and its Impact on Social Contagions [http://www.mpi-sws.org/~gummadi/papers/icwsm2014-overload.pdf]
** Ramaninder Singh Jhajj: How to Ask for a Favor: A Case Study on the Success of Altruistic Requests [http://www.mpi-sws.org/~cristian/How_to_Ask_for_a_Favor_files/how_to_ask_for_a_favor.pdf]
** Sripriya Srikant: How Community Feedback Shapes User Behavior [http://www.mpi-sws.org/~cristian/How_Community_Feedback_Shapes_User_Behavior_files/community_feedback.pdf]
** Oteh Uche Ukeh: Cognos: Crowdsourcing Search for Topic Experts in Microblogs [http://www.mpi-sws.org/~gummadi/papers/twitter_wtf.pdf]
** Gollapini Karthik: Deep Twitter Diving: Exploring Topical Groups in Microblogs at Scale [http://www.mpi-sws.org/~gummadi/papers/topicgroups_twitter.pdf]

* Friday, '''July 25, 2014, 09.15 - 13.15''': Session 11 (Final presentation by 6 students)
** 15 minutes presentation, 15 Minutes Q&A

==Final Report==
* Submit the final report by September 30th
* Review the paper you presented as well as 3 other papers the others presented.

==General Requirements (Please check the requirement for the next week, it will be mentioned there if a report is required or not and other requirements)==
* Each participant is required to read the selected paper before the seminar and prepare the review of the paper, which should include the following parts:
** Summary of the paper
** pros AND cons of the paper (your conclusion) 
** '''NOTE!! Every participant should provide the paper review BEFORE the seminar (23:59 Wednesday). => the review form is available at [[http://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~fu/Paper_Review_Form_ATCN_WS201112.doc Paper_Review_Form_ATCN_WS201112.doc]]
* During the seminar, one is chosen for giving the overview of the paper. And the list of pros and cons is discussed by all the participant.
* In the end of the semester, everyone is requested to pick a topic (about 4 papers) and prepare:
** presentation (each for ~20 minutes, plus ~10 minutes discussions)
** essay (12~15 pages) Template:[ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip]

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==Reading List==