Networks and agents Network (PI: Filippo Menczer)

The Networks and agents Network deals with applications and modeling of technological, communication, social, and information networks such as the Web. Our meetings are open to anyone interested.

Search Engines and Web Dynamics: We study how search affects the traffic patterns and the evolution of the Web. More	Santo Fortunato, Sandro Flammini, Alex Vespignani, Jacob Ratkiewicz, Fil Menczer
Internet Traffic Analysis: Analysis of the statistical behavioral patterns that emerge from Internet traffic data may lead to robust design/planning/management tools as well as methods for mitigating attacks by early detection of anomalous patterns correlated with malicious behavior. More	Mark Meiss, Alex Vespignani, Fil Menczer
GiveALink: A social bookmarking network exploring collaborative, hierarchical Web search and recommendation algorithms. More	Ben Markines, Heather Roinestad, Mike Conover, Mira Stoilova, Fil Menczer
6S: Distributed, collaborative Web crawling and searching algorithms inspired by ecological and artificial life systems. Peer-based search driven by adaptive query routing can spontaneously organize into small-world networks with efficient communication capturing semantic locality. More	Le-Shin Wu, Ruj Akavipat, Fil Menczer
Web Similarity Maps: The relationships between different types of Web topology based on hyperlinks, words, and page meaning, and their impact on ranking and crawling algorithms. More	Ana Maguitman, Fulya Erdinc, Heather Roinestad, Alex Vespignani, Fil Menczer
BioNets: Machine learning algorithms for clustering, inference, and vulnerability in biological (eg, protein interaction and metabolic) networks. More	Gayathri Athreya, Divya Rao, Sandro Flammini, Fil Menczer
Social Phishing: Exploitation of social networking sites for identity theft. More	Tom Jagatic, Nate Johnson, Markus Jakobsson, Fil Menczer