MASTER OF SCIENCE PROJECT DEFENSE BY: Navya Mandava
When: Friday,
December 4, 2015
10:00 AM
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11:30 AM
Where: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A
Cost: Free
Description: SUBJECT: MASTER OF SCIENCE PROJECT DEFENSE BY: Navya Mandava
TOPIC: TRUST SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS FOR ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS USING MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS
LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A
ABSTRACT:
This project considers two-party trust sensitivity analysis in social networks, where the trust is a key basis for interactions among different parties. Based on sensitivity measures, the objective of the trust sensitivity analysis is to determine direct links that contribute the most to a trust relationship between two indirectly-connected parties in the network. In this project, both Monte-Carlo simulations and analytical methods are implemented using two different sensitivity measures (Birnbaum's measure and critically important factor) for the two-party trust sensitivity analysis. Analysis of several illustrative example social networks are presented.
NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend.
All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public.
Advisor: Dr. Liudong Xing
Committee Members: Dr. Honggang Wang, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Dr. Xiaoqin Shelley Zhang, Department of Computer and Information Science
*For further information, please contact Dr. Liudong Xing at 508.999.8883, or via email at lxing@umassd.edu.
TOPIC: TRUST SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS FOR ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS USING MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS
LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A
ABSTRACT:
This project considers two-party trust sensitivity analysis in social networks, where the trust is a key basis for interactions among different parties. Based on sensitivity measures, the objective of the trust sensitivity analysis is to determine direct links that contribute the most to a trust relationship between two indirectly-connected parties in the network. In this project, both Monte-Carlo simulations and analytical methods are implemented using two different sensitivity measures (Birnbaum's measure and critically important factor) for the two-party trust sensitivity analysis. Analysis of several illustrative example social networks are presented.
NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend.
All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public.
Advisor: Dr. Liudong Xing
Committee Members: Dr. Honggang Wang, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Dr. Xiaoqin Shelley Zhang, Department of Computer and Information Science
*For further information, please contact Dr. Liudong Xing at 508.999.8883, or via email at lxing@umassd.edu.
Contact:
ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department 508.999.9164 http://www.umassd.edu/engineering/ece/
Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, Electrical and Computer Engineering