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: | Hong Huang |
Time: | Fridays, 10.15 - 11.45. (Note: First meeting on 25.04.2014, see #Schedule below) |
Place: | IfI 3.101 |
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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
Schedule
- Friday, April 25th, 2014, 10.15 - 11.45: Session 0 [basic problem in social networks]
- Introduction
- Groups
- Overview
- Papers to Read and review
- Introduction
- 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.
- 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
- Friday, May 23, 2014, 10.15 - 11.45: Session 4
- Friday, May 30, 2014, 10.15 - 11.45: Session 5
- Friday, June 6, 2014, 10.15 - 11.45: Session 6
- Friday, June 13, 2014, 10.15 - 11.45: Session 7 (Papers on Brain Computer Interface by Xu Ren)
- Tuesday, 5th August 2014, 13:00 - 14:00: Final presentation (Flexible based on the request of the students)
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:[9]