| This term's focus: Social Information Systems |
Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion!While in the past browsing the Web meant clicking on hyperlinks, today's Web browsing means joining communities looking for personally relevant content. Many of today's most visited Web sites did not exist two-three years ago: YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, Reddit. Millions of users are flocking to these Web sites searching for the most popular or the most commented content, or for content posted by their friends. These systems are bridging computer networking and people's social environments.
This term, the seminar's goal is focused on asking two questions: (1) what is new about these social information systems, and (2) what are the engineering challenges of building large-scale social information systems? This seminar is organized this term by Nick Koudas and Stefan Saroiu.
List of Papers
- February 1st
The Strength of Weak Ties. Mark S. Granovetter. The American Journal of Sociology 1973.
Presenter: Andrew Miklas (slides)
- February 8th
Exploiting Social Networks for Internet Search. Alan Mislove, Krishna Gummadi, and Peter Druschel, HotNets 2006.
Presenter: Manos Papagelis (slides)
- Feburary 15th
An Experimental Study of the Coloring Problem on Human Subject Networks. M. Kearns, S. Suri, and N. Montfort. Science 313(5788) August 2006.
Presenter: Manos Papagelis (slides)
- Feburary 22nd
Community Information Management. A. Doan, R. Ramakrishnan, F. Chen, P. DeRose, Y Lee, R. McCann, M. Sayyadian, W. Shen. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, Special Issue on Probabilistic Databases, 29(1), 2006.
Presenter: Nikos Sarkas (slides)
- March 1st
The Augmented Social Network: Building identity and trust into the next-generation Internet. Ken Jordan, Jan Hauser, and Steven Foster. First Monday 2003.
Presenter: Kiran Gollu (slides)
- March 8th
FolkRank: A Ranking Algorithm for Folksonomies. Andreas Hotho, Robert Jschke, Christoph Schmitz, and Gerd Stumme. FGIR 2006.
Presenter: Nikos Sarkas (slides)
- March 15th
Information Retrieval in Folksonomies: Search and Ranking.. Andreas Hotho, Robert Jschke, Christoph Schmitz, and Gerd Stumme. The Semantic Web: Research and Applications (4011):411--426, Springer, Heidelberg, 2006.
Presenter: Nikos Sarkas (slides)
- March 22nd
Round-table discussion.
- March 29th
Optimizing Web Search Using Social Annotations. Shenghua Bao, Xiaoyuan Wu, Ben Fei, Gui-Rong Xue, Zhong Su, Yong Yu. WWW 2007.
Presenter: Nikos Sarkas.
- April 6th
Towards Effective Browsing of Large Scale Social Annotations. Rui Li, Shenghua Bao, Ben Fei, Zhong Su, Yong Yu. WWW 2007.
Presenter: Nikos Sarkas.
- April 12th
The One Laptop Per Child Project
Presenter: Mike Fletcher, VRPlumber Consulting
- April 26th
TBA
Presenter: Kiran Gollu