Course Schedule and Notes

Week

Lecture Dates

Topics

Notes (restricted access)

Required Reading

(Choose one per lecture and two per week)

1

1/8
1/10

1. Course Introduction + Search Engines: An Introduction

2. Search Engines: The State of Art

Lecture 1
Lecture 2

Only one reading assignment

[1.1 SE]: 1, 12, 9, 20

2

1/15
1/17

3. Mobile Computing and Location aware Computing: Architectures and Research Challenges

4. Mobile Computing and Location aware Computing: Applications and Services

Lecture 3

Lecture 4

[5.2 Mobile]: 13, 16, 19, 22,23,24

[5.5 GeoApp] 3,4,5,6,7,8,9

3

1/22
1/24

5. Location Privacy in Mobile Internet Era

6. Social Network and Web2.0

Lecture 5
Lecture 6

[4.3.3.LP] 1, 2,3,4,5

[6.Web2.0] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

4

1/29

1/31

7. Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Computing: Topology and Search

8. Distributed Hash Table Based Peer to Peer Systems

Lecture 7

Lecture 8 

+ PeerCQ

[5.1 P2P]: 2, 5, 7, 8, 13

[5.1 P2P] 15, 16, 17, 18, 24, 25

5

2/05
2/07

9. Crawl and Search the Web using Distributed Peer to Peer Computing: Apoidea and PeerCrawl

10. Tracking and Delivering Fresh Information on the Net

Lecture 9

Lecture 10

Only one reading assignment this week

[5.1 P2P]: 7, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23

6

2/12
2/14

11. Web Servers, Web Clusters (incl. Web Proxies, Web Caching)

Project Proposal Due Extended to Feb 15 midnight

12. Application Servers: Concepts and Systems

Lecture 11

Lecture 12

(Proposal Listing)

[2.1 WS] 1, 2, 18

[2.2 WP] 4,6,7, 21

[3.AppSerber:] 18, 21, 31, 32, 33, 34

7

2/19
2/21

Understanding Search Engines:

13. Part I Web Information Retrieval: Models and Methods

14. Part II Search in Social Networks and P2P Networks

Lecture 13

Lecture 14

[1.1 SE]: 1, 7, 11, 12, 15, 14, 16, 19, 28, 32, 36. 37, 39

[5.1 P2P]: 7, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23

8

2/26
2/28

15. Selected Project Proposal Presentation (Group 1, 3, 5, 7, 11)

16. Selected Project Proposal Presentation (Group 14, 15, 17, 19, 22)

Lecture 15
Lecture 16

 [3 AS] 18, 21, 32

[2.2 WP] 8, 25, 28

9

3/04

3/06

17. Spatial Indexing and Spatial Data Mining

18. WiFi Localization

Lecture 17

Lecture 18

[5.2 Mobile]: 14, 18, 19, 20

[5.6 Indexing]: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 21,22,25,31

10

3/11

3/13

19. Guest Lecture: Web Spams and Counter Measures by Steve Webb

20. Internet Security and Secure Overlay Services

Lecture 19

Lecture 20

[4.4 WebSpam] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

[4.3. Security] 10, 13, 15, 16

11

3/17-
3/21

Spring Break

12

3/25

3/27

21. Securing Publish and Subscribe Systems: Problems and Defenses

22. VoIP and IPTV

Lecture 21
Lecture 22

[4.3 Security] 11, 12, 17

[5.3 sensor] 6,7,8

[5.4 RFID]1,2,3,4

13

4/01

4/03

25. Web Performance: Metrics, Models & Methods

26. CERCS Alumni Workshop in KACB 116 Schedule

Lecture 23
Lecture 24
 

14

4/08

4/10

CS8803 Workshop Day One  (4 project presentations)

CS8803 Workshop Day Two  (4 project presentations)

15

4/15

4/17

CS8803 Workshop Day Three (4 project presentations)

CS8803 Workshop Day Four (4 project presentations)

16

4/22

4/24

CS8803 Workshop Day Five (5 project presentations, start at 9:15am)

CS8803 Workshop Day Six (5 project presentations, start at 9:15am)

Project Demo 4/21 - 4/25

Project Deliverable Due: 4/27 at 6pm (Hard Deadline)