November 2013 - Dm-meeting - mailman.cs.vt.edu

Meeting notes (Nov 23rd, 2013)
by yaozhang 23 Nov '13

23 Nov '13

Hi everyone, We discussed about our current works in our meeting. Liangzhe first talked about his work about predicting the trend of flu using Twitter data; Shashi talked about how to use culprits to predict the missing nodes; Yao presented an immunization algorithm based on the dominator tree given the prior information that some nodes are already infected in the graph; finally Ben showed his work about predicting time series of diseases using the transportation network. Our next meeting time will be at 1pm, Dec. 5th. Have a good weekend! Regards, Yao * Interested in giving a talk at the DM-Meeting? Send an email to yaozhang(a)cs.vt.edu with a short description of the talk.

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Tomorrow @ 1pm
by yaozhang 21 Nov '13

21 Nov '13

Hi guys, Just reminder that we will have the regular meeting tomorrow1pm at 3160a Torg. (conference room). Regards, Yao * Interested in giving a talk at the DM-Meeting? Send an email to yaozhang(a)cs.vt.edu with a short description of the talk.

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Thursday, Nov 21st @ 1pm
by yaozhang 16 Nov '13

16 Nov '13

Hi guys, Just reminder that we will have the regular meeting next Thursday (Nov 21) 1pm at 3160a Torg. (conference room). Regards, Yao * Interested in giving a talk at the DM-Meeting? Send an email to yaozhang(a)cs.vt.edu with a short description of the talk.

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FYI: No Meeting tomorrow
by B. Aditya Prakash 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

Hi everyone, I guess I had mentioned it before; in any case note that there is no meeting tomorrow. Our next meeting will be on next Thursday! cheers, - Aditya

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Meeting notes (Oct 31, 2013)
by yaozhang 08 Nov '13

08 Nov '13

Hi everyone, Today, we discusses about papers under our review. Ben first presented his reviewed paper "Have OSNs changed the way in which news propagate? Characterizing the International Propagation of Trending Topics". This paper characterized how trending topics propagate through countries. Then, Shashi talked about the paper "Think Before You Tweet: A Cautionary Tale", which talked about how to infer users interests among topics as time goes by. Third, Yao talked about the paper "Understanding community effect on information diffusion", which studied how communities affect the information diffusion, and also proposed a community based algorithm for influence maximization problem. Finally Liangzhe talked about the paper "Influence-Guided Community Detection in Networks". This paper proposed a community detection algorithm based on user's influence. Note that the next meeting date is NEXT THURSDAY (NOV 7). Regards, Yao * Interested in giving a talk at the DM-Meeting? Send an email to yaozhang(a)cs.vt.edu with a short description of the talk.

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Meeting notes (Nov 7, 2013)
by yaozhang 08 Nov '13

08 Nov '13

Hi everyone, Today, we discussed about papers under our review. Ben first presented his reviewed paper "Characterization of information propagation in Google+ and its Comparison with Twitter". This paper characterized how information propagates in G+ following Kwak et al 's work (www2010). Then, Yao talked about the paper "Traffic control for network protection against spreading processes", which talked about minimizing the contagion spread through networks using geometric programming to minimize the largest eigenvalue. Liangzhe talked about the paper "Link Denoising with Uncertain Graphs". This paper used connectivity consistency to study the problem of link de-noising. Shashi talked about the paper "Where'd You Download Those Skills? The Contagion of Cheating in Online Games", which analyzes the social contagion of cheating in online games. The authors aim to find some special patterns of such contagion.. Note that the next meeting date is Nov 21st. Regards, Yao * Interested in giving a talk at the DM-Meeting? Send an email to yaozhang(a)cs.vt.edu with a short description of the talk.

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Tomorrow @ 1pm
by yaozhang 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

Hi everyone, Don''t forget we have meeting tomorrow. We will discuss about the remaining papers for the review. Regards, Yao * Interested in giving a talk at the DM-Meeting? Send an email to yaozhang(a)cs.vt.edu with a short description of the talk.

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Thursday, Nov 7 @ 1pm
by B. Aditya Prakash 05 Nov '13

05 Nov '13

Hi everyone, A reminder: we will continue and finish our discussion about the remaining SDM/WWW papers which were assigned to you for the review. All the reviews are due Nov. 9. cheers, - Aditya

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Re: [Dm-meeting] Fwd: Theft
by B. Aditya Prakash 03 Nov '13

03 Nov '13

Thanks for the information Naren. No, my students haven't told me anything like this (unless something has happened in the past 1-2 days). Everyone else: Please take appropriate precautions as mentioned below and contact Prof. Ramakrishnan to get the keys for your side-lockers. cheers, - Aditya On 11/3/13 10:02 AM, Naren Ramakrishnan wrote: > Hi Aditya, > > Not sure if your students had issues with theft but 3 of my students > have reported problems. Can you forward this to your students as well? > > Naren > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *Naren Ramakrishnan* <naren(a)cs.vt.edu <mailto:naren@cs.vt.edu>> > Date: Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 9:58 AM > Subject: Theft > To: "softlab(a)cs.vt.edu <mailto:softlab@cs.vt.edu>" <softlab(a)cs.vt.edu > <mailto:softlab@cs.vt.edu>> > Cc: "B. Aditya Prakash" <badityap(a)cs.vt.edu <mailto:badityap@cs.vt.edu>> > > > Hi, > > Many people have mentioned to me in the last few days that they have > lost valuable personal items in Torg 3160/3180: a laptop, a hard > drive, and today a watch. > > People have noticed these in staggering fashion and it is not clear if > they all happened during a small time window or if this is a > persisting problem. I recommend > - we remain vigilant > - do not leave valuable things around > - (**very importantly**) do not leave the doors ajar. If you must let > someone in, let that person knock or call you. > > I have received from Ginger a set of keys for the lockers on the > sidetables. Pl meet me on Mon afternoon/Tue to receive the key for > your sidetable and use those to secure your valuables. Sorry again > for the losses. I recommend you also check with the Lost and Found in > Torgersen or in the library just in case. > > Naren > > -- > Naren Ramakrishnan > Thomas L. Phillips Professor of Engineering > Department of Computer Science > http://www.cs.vt.edu/~naren <http://www.cs.vt.edu/%7Enaren> > Director, Discovery Analytics Center, Virginia Tech > http://dac.cs.vt.edu > > > > -- > Naren Ramakrishnan > Thomas L. Phillips Professor of Engineering > Department of Computer Science > http://www.cs.vt.edu/~naren <http://www.cs.vt.edu/%7Enaren> > Director, Discovery Analytics Center, Virginia Tech > http://dac.cs.vt.edu

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