Overview

In this seminar, we review and discuss a collection of research papers from major conferences. In each session, one student presents one (or two) paper(s) and leads the discussion. The student who presents a paper should submit a good summary of the paper to our paper review archive. All other students should read the paper prior to class, submit a review of the paper by email before class and actively contribute in class discsusion. Grading will be P/NP.

Schedule

• Jan 18,
  Saed: Do Cascades Recur?, WWW '16 [Slides]
  Soheil: Community evolution prediction in dynamic social networks, ASONAM '14 [Slides]

• Jan 25,
  Bahador: Towards Better Internet Citizenship: Reducing the Footprint of Internet-wide Scans by Topology Aware Prefix Selection, IMC '16 [Slides]
  Bahador: Yarrp’ing the Internet: Randomized High-Speed Active Topology Discovery, IMC '16 [Slides]
  Roger: Browser Feature Usage on the Modern Web, IMC '16 [Slides]

• Feb 8,
  Saed: Who Will Retweet This? Automatically Identifying and Engaging Strangers on Twitter to Spread Information. IUI '14 [Slides]
  Soheil: The effect of recommendations on network structure. WWW '16 [Slides]

• Feb 15,
  Bahador: Reasons Dynamic Addresses Change, IMC '16 [Slides]
  Roger: Anatomy of a Personalized Livestreaming System, IMC '16 [Slides]

• Feb 22,
  Saed: emotions demographics and sociability in twitter interactions, ICWSM '16 [Slides]
  Soheil: On the behaviour of deviant communities in online social networks, ICWSM '16 [Slides]
  

• Mar 1,
  Bahador: traIXroute: Detecting IXPs in traceroute paths, PAM '16 [Slides]
  Roger: An Analysis of the Privacy and Security Risks of Android VPN Permission-enabled Apps, IMC '16 [Slides]
  

• Mar 8,
  Saed: Extracting Social Structures from Conversations in Twitter, HT '16 [Slides]
  Soheil: Understanding Communities via Hashtag Engagement: A Clustering Based Approach, ICWSM '16 [Slides]

• Mar 15,
  Bahador: BGP Prefix Delegations: A Deep Dive, IMC '16 [Slides]
  Roger: Performance Characterization of a Commercial Video Streaming Service, IMC '16 [Slides]