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
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)

Schedule

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

• Friday, May 2, 2014, 10.15 - 11.45: Session 1
• Friday, May 9, 2014, 10.15 - 11.45: Session 2
• 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

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:[6]