Topics, References and Assignment

First Session (July 10th):

1. Community detection
   Overview of community detection methods and comparison [1,2]
2. Identifying influentials
   Methods and techniques for identifying influentials in social networks [3-5]
3. User behavior
   Understanding user behavior in social networks and classifying users [6,7]
4. Facebook: Profiles and Applications
   User profiling and detection of malicious applications [8,9]
5. Classical e-commerce
   Knowing and profiling the customers in e-commerce, and analyzing their behavior [10,11]
6. Social networks as means for organizing illegal actions
   Infrastructures of social networks as means of organizing illegal actions (riots, revolution) [12-14]

Second Session (July 17th):

1. Identifying spammers
   Methods and algorithms to identify and target spammers [15-18]

2. Spammers behavior
   Investigation of spammers’ behavior, micro world and their tactics [19-21]

3. Identifying personality traits through social networks
   Identification and prediction of personality characteristics from public data on social media [22-24]
4. Tweets and privacy
   Detecting and preventing privacy leaks in twitter [25,26]
5. De-Anonymizing Social Networks
   Methods to trace and link users in social networks [27,28]
6. Smart Grid Privacy
   Methods to violate and protect users’ privacy in Smart Grids [29,30]

References:

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3. Bakshy, E., et al., Everyone's an influencer: quantifying influence on twitter, in Proceedings of the fourth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining. 2011, ACM: Hong Kong, China. p. 65-74.
4. Cha, M., et al. Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy. in Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. 2010. George Washington University.
5. Weng, J., et al., TwitterRank: finding topic-sensitive influential twitterers, in Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Web search and data mining. 2010, ACM: New York, New York, USA. p. 261-270.
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19. Yang, C., et al., Analyzing spammers' social networks for fun and profit: a case study of cyber criminal ecosystem on twitter, in Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide Web. 2012, ACM: Lyon, France. p. 71-80.
20. Leskovec, J., L.A. Adamic, and B.A. Huberman, The dynamics of viral marketing. ACM Trans. Web, 2007. 1(1): p. 5.
21. Ghosh, S., et al., Understanding and combating link farming in the twitter social network, in Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide Web. 2012, ACM: Lyon, France. p. 61-70.
22. Gosling, S.D., et al., Manifestations of personality in online social networks: Self-reported Facebook-related behaviors and observable profile information. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2011. 14(9): p. 483-488.
23. Golbeck, J., C. Robles, and K. Turner, Predicting personality with social media, in CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2011, ACM: Vancouver, BC, Canada. p. 253-262.
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28. A. Campan, T Truta. Data and structural k-anonymity in social networks. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-01718-6_4
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30. M. Jawurek, M. Johns, F. Kerschbaum. Plug-in privacy for Smart Meterin billing. <http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.2248>