Oral Qualifing Examination Reading List

Design and Development of Peer To Peer Systems :

1. Y. Chawathe, S. Ratnasamy, L. Breslau, N. Lanham, and S. Shenker,
   “Making gnutella-like p2p systems scalable,”
   in SIGCOMM ’03: Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications. ACM Press, 2003, pp. 407–418.
   
   
2. K. P. Gummadi, R. J. Dunn, S. Saroiu, S. D. Gribble, H. M. Levy, and J. Zahorjan,
   “Measurement, modeling, and analysis of a peer-to-peer filesharing workload,”
   in SOSP ’03: Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on oPerating systems principles. ACM Press, 2003, pp. 314–329.
   
   
3. Ratnasamy, P. Francis, M. Handley, R. Karp, and S. Schenker,
   “A scalable content-addressable network,”
   in SIGCOMM ’01: Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications. ACM Press, 2001, pp. 161–172.
   
   
4. Jinyang Li, Boon Thau Loo, Joseph M. Hellerstein, M. Frans Kaashoek, David R. Karger, Robert Morris,
   "On the Feasibility of Peer-to-Peer Web Indexing and Search,"
   Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 2735, Oct 2003, Pages 207 - 215
   
   
5. Ion Stoica, Robert Morris, David Karger, M. Frans Kaashoek, and Hari Balakrishnan,
   "Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications",
   ACM SIGCOMM 2001, San Deigo, CA, August 2001, pp. 149-160.
   

Computer Security:

1. D. S. Wallach,
   “A survey of peer-to-peer security issues,”
   in International Symposium on Software Security (Tokyo, Japan), Nov. 2002.
   
   
2. I. Clarke, S. Miller, T. Hong, O. Sandberg, and B. Wiley,
   “Protecting free expression online with freenet,” 2002.
   
   
3. M. Jakobsson, J.-P. Hubaux and L. Buttyan,
   “A Micro-Payment Scheme Encouraging Collaboration in Multi-Hop Cellular Networks”,
   FC ’03
   
   
4. Srdjan Capkun, Jean-Pierre Hubaux and Markus Jakobsson,
   "Secure and Privacy-Preserving Communication in Hybrid Ad Hoc Networks",
   EPFL-IC Technical report IC/2004/10, Jan 2004
   
   
5. Geoffrey Goodell, William Aiello, Timothy Griffin, John Ioannidis, Patrick McDaniel and Aviel Rubin,
   "Working Around BGP: An Incremental Approach to Improving Security and Accuracy of Interdomain Routing",
   Proc. ISOC Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security, February, 2003.
   
   
6. Sepandar D. Kamvar , Mario T. Schlosser , Hector Garcia-Molina,
   "The Eigentrust algorithm for reputation management in P2P networks,"
   Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on World Wide Web, May 20-24, 2003, Budapest, Hungary
   
   
7. Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, Paul Syverson,
   "Reputation in P2P Anonymity Systems",
   Workshop on economics of p2p systems, June 2003.
   
   

Web Information Retrieval & Artificial Intelligence:

1. S. Chakrabarti,
   Mining the Web: Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data.
   Morgan-Kauffman, 2002.
   
   
2. Thorsten Joachims,
   "Text Categorization with Suport Vector Machines: Learning with Many Relevant Features,"
   Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Machine Learning, p.137-142, April 21-23, 1998
   
   
3. David D. Lewis,
   "Evaluating text categorization,"
   Proceedings of a workshop on Speech and natural language, p.312-318, June 1991, Pacific Grove, California, United States
   
   
4. Yiming Yang , Xin Liu,
   "A re-examination of text categorization methods,"
   Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, p.42-49, August 15-19, 1999, Berkeley, California, United States
   
   
5. P. Srinivasan, F. Menczer, G. Pant,
   "A General Evaluation Framework for Topical Crawlers",
   Final version to appear in Information Retrieval Vol. 8, 2005
   
   
6. F. Menczer, G. Pant, P. Srinivasan,
   "Topical Web Crawlers: Evaluating Adaptive Algorithms,"
   ACM TOIT 4(4): 378-419, 2004
   
   
7. J. Budzik, K. J. Hammond, and L. Birnbaum,
   “Information access in context,”
   Knowledge based systems, vol. 14, no. 1–2, pp. 37–53, 2001.
   
   
8. Henry Lieberman, Hugo Liu, Push Singh, and Barbara Barry,
   "Beating common sense into interactive applications,"
   AI Magazine, Winter, 2004.