Lab Meetings

Information regarding our weekly lab meetings and scheduled presentations.

Reading list for Spring 2011 lab meetings

The Total s-Energy of a Multiagent System

Reading list for Fall 2010 lab meetings

A Sober Look at Clustering Stability.
Towards a Statistical Theory of Clustering.
Approximate Clustering without the Approximation.
On the Approximability of Influence in Social Networks.
MANIPULATION OF PAGERANK AND COLLECTIVE HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS.
MINING INTERESTING SUBGRAPHS BY OUTPUT SPACE SAMPLING.
Making Pattern Mining Useful.
Exponential Random graph models.
* An Introduction to Exponential Random Graph (p*) Models for Social Networks
* New specifications for exponential random graph models
* Small and Other Worlds: Global network structures from local processes

Coming Lab meetings

Past Lab meetings

(in reverse chronological order)

September 21, 2011
Presenter: Igal Vainer
What: Emerging Networks - from Simple to Complex.
Abstract: Understanding processes guiding emergence of natural networks is a complex and challenging task. Yet, we believe most complex processes are guided by simple interactions operating with some degree of non-determinism on extremely large volumes of basic system entities. Combined together, operations on large volumes and non-determinism amplify groups’ properties within the system. Our goal is to create a simple modeling framework providing capabilities to simulate and analyze these evolutionary properties of emerging groups. This paper proposes a model extending basic concepts of marked graphs in Petri nets and discussing possible interpretations of resulting features.

July 22, 2011
Presenter: Catia Pesquita
What: Auxesia: semi-automated ontology extension.
Abstract: Biomedical ontologies are crucial for bridging the gap between biomedical data and biomedical knowledge, since they provide a structured and unambiguous model of the concepts needed to understand a domain. Developing and maintaining a biomedical ontology is a time and effort-consuming task, given the dynamic and expanding nature of biomedical knowledge. This is a relevant issue for very large ontologies which cover a broad domain, for smaller ontologies maintained by a small team and also for domains where being able to perform quick updates is critical (e.g. epidemiology). To help minimize this effort, we can capitalize on ontology engineering methods, such as ontology learning and ontology matching, to provide new candidate concepts for a biomedical ontology, and thus extend it. I am developing a methodology for semi-automated ontology extension, called Auxesia, which aims at addressing two of the biggest issues when working with biomedical ontologies: their size and the complexity of their terminology. To cope with these Auxesia explores two main sources of knowledge, other biomedical ontologies and scientific publications, by applying on one hand ontology matching and on the other text mining. It also incorporates a novel methodology for predicting the areas of the ontology which would benefit the most from extension, thereby focusing the extension effort.

January 20, 2011
Undergrad Open House.
Discussion: The Total s-Energy of a Multiagent System
Author:Bernard Chazelle.

November 09, 2010
Presenter: Habiba
Topic: Exponential random graph model (ERGM)
References:
* An Introduction to Exponential Random Graph (p*) Models for Social Networks
* New specifications for exponential random graph models
* Small and Other Worlds: Global network structures from local processes

October 19, 2010
Presenter: Rajmonda Sulo
Paper: Chapter 3: Making Pattern Mining Useful
Authors: Jilles Vreeken

October 12, 2010
Presenter: Habiba
Paper:Virus Propagation on Time-Varying Networks: Theory and Immunization Algorithms
Authors:B. Aditya Prakash,Hanghang Tong, Nicholas Valler, Michalis Faloutsos, Christos Faloutsos.

October 05, 2010
Presenter: Rajmonda Sulo
Paper: A Sober Look at Clustering Stability.
Authors: Shai Ben-David,Ulrike von Luxburg, and David Pal

September 28, 2010
Christine Cheng from University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee is going to be visiting us for the Fall 2010 semester. She will give an overview of her research and will get to know everybody.

August 31, 2009
Presenter: Habiba
Paper: Affiliation Networks
Authors: Silvio Lattanzi, and D. Sivakumar.

May 25, 2009
Presenter: Habiba
Paper:Kronecker graphs: an approach to modeling networks
Authors:Jure Leskovec, Deepayan Chakrabarti, Jon Kleinberg, Christos Faloutsos, Zoubin Gharamani.

May 08, 2009
Presenter: Mayank Lahiri
What: A Unified Approach to Periodic Pattern Mining in Discrete, Sequential Data
Author: Mayank Lahiri .

April 30, 2009
Presenter: Paul Varkey
What: What I believe about what you believe about what I believe, ad infinitum, and why it matters?

April 23, 2009
Presenter: Saad Sheikh
Paper:Combinatorial problems in Kinship Analysis
Author: Saad Sheikh .

April 02, 2009
Presenter: Paul Varkey
What: Common knowledge, and lack thereof, in multi-agent interactions

March 26, 2009
Presenter: Saad Sheikh
Paper: Recent progress in the Sibling reconstruction problem
Author: Saad Sheikh .

March 05, 2009
Presenter: Mayank Lahiri
What: Prediction in Dynamic Networks
Author: Mayank Lahiri .

February 26, 2009
Presenter: Priya Govindan
What: Inferring network structure using Maximum Likelihood approach
Author: Priya Govindan.

February 19, 2009
Presenter: Chayant Tantipanandh
Paper: Algorithms for Identifying Dynamic Communities
Authors: Chayant Tantipanandh and Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf.

February 12, 2009
Presenter: Rajmonda Sulo
What: The talk will cover some of the relations that exist between the structural and spectral properties of graphs.

February 05, 2009
Presenter: Arun S. Maiya
Paper: Graph Model Selection Using Maximum Likelihood
Authors:Ivona Bezáková,Adam Kalai, andRahul Santhanam.

January 22, 2009
Presenter: Habiba
Paper:The importance of relationship timing for diffusion
Author:James Moody.

October 16, 2008
Presenter: Saad Sheikh
Paper: Minimum Parents Reconstruction
Author: Saad Sheikh .

October 09, 2008
Presenter:Tsvi Achler, (UIUC).
Paper:A Self-Regulatory Feedback Solution to Combinatorial Explosion, Superposition Catastrophe and Binding Problems
Author: Tsvi Achler.

September 25, 2008
Presenter:Jen Anderson and Paul Varkey
What: Jen will talk about her past and current research work and what her overall research interests are.
Paul will be giving a small talk titled "Game-theoretic analysis of bargaining under uncertainty".

March 18, 2008
Presenter: Arun Maiya
Paper:Automated social hierarchy detection through email network analysis
Authors: Ryan Rowe, German Creamer, Shlomo Hershkop, Salvatore J Stolfo.

February 12, 2008
Presenter:Habiba
Paper:Cost-effective Outbreak Detection in Networks
Authors:Jure Leskovec, Andreas Krause, Carlos Guestrin, Christos Faloutsos, Jeanne VanBriesen,Natalie Glance.

February 05, 2008
Presenter:Chayant Tantipanandh
Paper:GraphScope: Parameter-free Mining of Large Time-evolving Graphs
Authors:Jimeng Sun , Spiros Papadimitriou, Philip S. Yu, Christos Faloutsos.

February 01, 2008
Presenter:Mayank Lahiri
Paper: On the Complexity of Mining Periodic Behavior in Dynamic Networks
Authors:Mayank Lahiri, Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf.

December 05, 2007
Presenter: Anushka Anand
Paper: Familiarity breeds contempt: a graph-diffusion kernel for analyzing enmity biological networks
Authors: Yan Qi, Yasir Suhail, Joel S. Bader.

November 14, 2007
Presenter:Arun Maiya
Paper: Social Network Analysis for Routing in Disconnected Delay-Tolerant MANETs
Authors: Elizabeth Daly, Mads Haahr.

October 31 , 2007
Presenter:Chayant Tantipathananandh
Paper: Approximate graph coloring by semidefinite programming
Authors: David R. Karger, Rajeev Motwani, Madhu Sudan.

October 24 , 2007
Presenter:Mayank Lahiri
Paper: Wherefore Art Thou R3579X? Anonymized Social Networks, Hidden Patterns, and Structural Steganography
Authors: Lars Backstrom, Cynthia Dwork , Jon Kleinberg.

October 10 , 2007
Presenter:Habiba
Paper: Worm versus alert: Who wins in a battle for control of a large-scale network?
Authors: James Aspnes, Navin Rustagi, Jared Saia.

September 19 , 2007
Presenter:Saad Sheikh
Paper: Computer software for performing likelihood tests of pedigree relationship using genetic markers
Authors: Keith F. Goodnight, David C. Queller.

September 12 , 2007
Presenter:Arun Maiya
Paper: Exploiting Social Interactions in Mobile Systems
Authors: Andrew G. Miklas, Kiran K. Gollu, Kelvin K.W. Chan , Stefan Saroiu ,Krishna P. Gummadi , and Eyal de Lara.

September 5, 2007
Presenter:Habiba
Paper:Betweenness Centrality Measure in Dynamic Networks
Authors:Habiba, Chayant Tantipathananandh, Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf.