Someone (could not hear the name) talked about using social network analysis in the context of online auctions. Ignoring the complexity of the multiple different type of auctions that he mentioned (english v. dutch, etc), it was interesting to me, since it has elements of covert networks, particularly the game that the banned auctioneers [...]

A review of:
Memon, N.; Hicks, D.L.; Larsen, H.L., “Harvesting Terrorists Information from Web,” Information Visualization, 2007. IV ‘07. 11th International Conference , vol., no., pp.664-671, 4-6 July 2007

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.

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. [...]

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.

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

Today we talked about link prediction, anti-social (covert) networks, and an intriguing idea to use the FOAF project to bridge multiple online social networks (or improve search within them).

Today we talked about deliverables for the project and what the various teams are looking at doing this quarter.

A note about sending Justin Becker a couple of papers I thought might be relevant to the class.

Journal of project discussion section meeting (teleconference) taking place on 16 April 2008.

Notes on a phone conversation with Professor Wu at UCDavis - about research direction and possible topics for a class project.

A review of Network Mathematics: Why is it a Small World?, a talk given by Oskar Sandberg at Defcon 15.

Reka Albert and Albert-Laszlo Barabasi wrote a seminal paper in 2001 that I have read recently, and am now just getting around to collecting my thoughts…