The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

 

Online Social Networks Research @

Welcome to the homepage for online social networks research at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbrücken and Kaiserslautern, Germany.  Below you will find links to our publications, researchers, and available data sets.



People


Students:

  1. •Alan Mislove

  2. •Massimiliano Marcon

  3. •Ansley Post

  4. •Bimal Viswanath


Post-docs:

  1. •Meeyoung Cha


Faculty:

  1. •Bobby Bhattacharjee

  2. •Peter Druschel

  3. •Krishna Gummadi


Publications


  1. •Fabrício Benevenuto, Tiago Rodrigues, Meeyoung Cha, and Virgílio Almeida. Characterizing User Behavior in Online Social Networks. In Proceedings of Usenix/ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Chicago, Illinois, November 2009. To appear.

  2. •Bimal Viswanath, Alan Mislove, Meeyoung Cha, and Krishna P. Gummadi. On the Evolution of User Interaction in Facebook. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Social Networks (WOSN'09), Barcelona, Spain, August 2009.

  3. •Meeyoung Cha, Alan Mislove, and Krishna P. Gummadi. A Measurement-driven Analysis of Information Propagation in the Flickr Social Network. In Proceedings of the 18th Annual World Wide Web Conference (WWW'09), Madrid, Spain, April 2009.

  4. •Alan Mislove, Hema Swetha Koppula, Krishna P. Gummadi, Peter Druschel, Bobby Bhattacharjee. Growth of the Flickr social network. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN'08), Seattle, August 2008.

  5. •Meeyoung Cha, Alan Mislove, Ben Adams, Krishna P. Gummadi. Characterizing Social Cascades in Flickr. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN'08), Seattle, August 2008.

  6. •Alan Mislove, Ansley Post, Krishna P.Gummadi, Peter Druschel.  Ostra: Leveraging trust to thwart unwanted communication. In Proceedings of the 5th Conference of Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'08), San Francisco, CA, April 2008.

  7. •Alan Mislove, Massilmiliano Marcon, Krishna P. Gummadi, Peter Druschel, Bobby Bhattacharjee.  Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks.  In Proceedings of the 5th ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'07), San Diego, CA, October 2007.

  8. •Alan Mislove, Krishna P. Gummadi, Peter Druschel.  Exploiting Social Networks for Internet Search.  In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets’06), Irvine, CA, November 2006.


Software


For software from the PeerSpective project, please go to the PeerSpective homepage.


Data Sets


Data from our IMC 2007 paper, our WOSN 2008 papers, our WWW 2009 paper, our WOSN 2009 paper, and our Network Growth Technical Report is publicly available by emailing Alan Mislove at amislove (at) mpi-sws (dot) org.  Each of the data sets has been anonymized to protect the privacy of the social network users.



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