Today we talked about Casey’s non-cooperative game model for P2P networks, (using bittorrent as a specific example).  In a non-cooperative context, we talked about incentives to prevent leechers and promote sharing.  MessageReaper has the same need for incentives (the current model is based on past history) that reward current activities (like reputation). We also talked [...]

Review of:
Sharan, U. and Neville, J. 2007. Exploiting time-varying relationships in statistical relational models. In Proceedings of the 9th WebKDD and 1st SNA-KDD 2007 Workshop on Web Mining and Social Network Analysis (San Jose, California, August 12 – 12, 2007). WebKDD/SNA-KDD ’07. ACM, New York, NY, 9-15.

A review of:
Liben-Nowell, D. and Kleinberg, J. 2003. The link prediction problem for social networks. In Proceedings of the Twelfth international Conference on information and Knowledge Management (New Orleans, LA, USA, November 03 – 08, 2003). CIKM ’03. ACM, New York, NY, 556-559.

This totally rocks! A petition to have the old Thundarr the Barbarian cartoon series released on DVD. http://www.petitiononline.com/thundarr/petition.html

Today we mostly checked in about the status of our projects. Professor Wu did mention that Professor Vemuri (retired from LLNL) is interested in terrorism applications and I might want to write him a note to express interest in that area. We also had a lengthy discussion about privacy (and inference) in social networking. In [...]

A review of:
Watts, Duncan J.; Dodds, Peter Sheridan; Newman, M. E. J., 2002. “Identity and Search in Social Networks”. Science, Volume 296, Issue 5571, pp. 1302-1305.

A review of:
Morselli, Carlo, Petit, Katia and Giguère, Cynthia, 2006. “The Efficiency/Security Trade-off in Criminal Networks“.

Journal of project discussion section meeting (teleconference) taking place on 07 May 2008.

I am speechless.  Well, almost.  One of those R2D2 toys, hacked to be a dvd projector…  Sweet!

A review of “Uncloaking Terrorist Networks” by Valdis Krebs.