REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Massive Online Social Networks

在这个新的REU网站提案中，目标是为有前途的学生提供跨学科的研究经验，以建立大规模的社交网络并探索这些网络的应用。具体的目标项目涉及社交网络中的分布式规则路径查询评估、社交网络的隐私保护分布式架构、“虚拟”友谊关系机制以及对在线/离线人类行为的理解和建模的影响。拟议的REU网站将每年招募有前途的本科生，并在项目期间提供结构化的活动计划。特别强调从研究中代表性不足的群体中吸引高素质的学生。为所有REU学生组织为期八周的暑期课程。

In this new REU site proposal the goal is to provide interdisciplinary research experiences for promising students in building massive social networks and exploring applications of these. Specific targeted projects involve topics in the areas of distributed regular path query evaluation in social networks, privacy- preserving distributed architectures for social networks, mechanisms of 'virtual' friendship relationships, and the impact on understanding and modeling of online/offline human behaviors. The proposed REU site will recruit promising undergraduates each year and provide a structured plan of activities for the duration of the project. Special emphasis on attracting high quality students from under-represented groups in research. An eight- week summer session will be organized for all REU students.