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

Details

Workload/ECTS 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)
Lecturer:	Dr. Mayutan Arumaithurai
Teaching assistant:	Jiachen Chen
Time:	Fridays, 10.15 - 11.45. (Note: First meeting on 25.04.2014, see #Schedule below)
Place:	IfI 3.101
UniVZ	[1]

Please follow our #Schedule to attend the initial meeting for our course on 25th April, 2014. Thanks.

Our topics will be available soon. Please stay tuned and check this web page regularly. Thanks.

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

Schedule

• Friday, April 25th, 2014, 10.15 - 11.45: Session 0 [basic problem in social networks]
  • Introduction
    • Groups
    • Overview
  • Papers to Read and review
    • 1. WWW2013 best paper: No country for old members: user lifecycle and linguistic change in online communities [2]
    • 2. What is Twitter, a social network or a news media? [3]
    • 3. Measurement and analysis of online social networks [4]
    • 4. The Link-Prediction Problem for Social Networks [5]

• • • 5. Analyzing the Video Popularity Characteristics of Large-Scale User Generated Content Systems [6]
    • 6. YouTube Around the World: Geographic Popularity of Videos [7]
    • 7. Understanding the Characteristics of Internet Short Video Sharing: YouTube as a Case Study [8]

• • • 8. Robust dynamic classes revealed by measuring the response function of a social system [9]
    • 9. Patterns of Temporal Variation in Online Media [10]
    • 10. Predicting the Popularity of Online Content [11]
    • 11. The Tube over Time: Characterizing Popularity Growth of YouTube Videos [12]

• • 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Friday, May 30, 2014, 10.15 - 11.45: Holiday

• Friday, June 6, 2014, 10.15 - 11.45: Session 5

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

• • We will again discuss papers 8,9,10,11

• Friday, June 13, 2014, 10.15 - 11.45: Session 7 (Papers on Brain Computer Interface by Xu Ren)
  • Papers to Read and review
    • [13]
    • [14]
    • [15]

• Tuesday, 5th August 2014, 13:00 - 14:00: Final presentation (Flexible based on the request of the students)

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 [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:[16]