large-scale network dynamics: a new frontier
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Large-Scale Network Dynamics: A New Frontier. Jie Wang Dept of Computer Science University of Massachusetts Lowell. Presented at Dept. of Computer Science, Boston University, Nov. 6, 2009 At Dept. of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, Oct. 30, 2009 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Large-Scale Network Dynamics: A New Frontier
Jie WangDept of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Presented at Dept. of Computer Science, Boston University, Nov. 6, 2009At Dept. of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, Oct. 30, 2009At Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State Univ., Sept. 24, 2009
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“The earth to be spann’d, connected by network,The races, neighbors, to marry and be given in marriage,The oceans to be cross’d, the distant brought near,The lands to be welded together”
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), Passage to India “The network is the computer”John Gage (1942 - ), Sun Microsystems
“The network is the informationand the storage”Weibo Gong, UMass Amherst
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Small-World Phenomenon
Two persons are linked if they are coauthors of an article. The Erdős number is the collaboration distance with mathematician Paul Erdős.
Six degrees of separationWhat is your Erdős number?
Erdös number 0 --- 1 person Erdös number 1 --- 504 people Erdös number 2 --- 6593 people Erdös number 3 --- 33605 people Erdös number 4 --- 83642 people Erdös number 5 --- 87760 people Erdös number 6 --- 40014 people Erdös number 7 --- 11591 people Erdös number 8 --- 3146 people Erdös number 9 --- 819 people Erdös number 10 --- 244 people Erdös number 11 --- 68 people Erdös number 12 --- 23 people Erdös number 13 --- 5 people
The median Erdös number is 5; the mean is 4.65, and the standard deviation is 1.21
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The Watts-Strogatz -Modelbetween order and randomness
Small-World Networks
- Short mean path; or short characteristic path- Large clustering coefficient
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What Are Big-World Networks? Acquaintance Networks over Generations From “Mathematics Genealogy Project”
Gottfried Leibniz(1646-1716)
Jacob Bernoulli(1654-1705)
Johann Bernoulli(1667-1748) Leonhard Euler
(1707-1783)Joseph Lagrange
(1736-1813)
Simeon Poisson(1781-1840) Michel Chasles
(1793-1880)H. A. Newton(1830-1896)
E. H. Moore(1862-1932) Oswald Veblen
(1880-1960)
Alonzo Church(1903-1995)
John B. Rosser(1907-1989)
Gerald Sacks(1933 -)
343 academicdescendants
Stephen Homer Jie Wang
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Scale-Free Phenomenon
Power law distribution:f(x) ~ x–α
Log-log scale:log f(x) ~ –αlog x
Scale-free networks are small-wolrdSmall-world may not be scale-freeSubnets of scale-free networks may not be scale-free
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Brain Networks“A mental state M is nothing other than brain state B. The mental state "desire for a cup of coffee" would thus be nothing more than the "firing of certain neurons in certain brain regions.” -- E. G. Boring (1886-1968)
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Are Brain Networks Small-World?
Brian networks are highly dynamic
Can process 100 trillion instructions per second
Some believe brain networks are small-world
Mathematical challenge: Work out a mathematical model consistent with brain functionalities
There are 100 billion (1011) neurons in the human brain, and 100 trillion (1014) connections (synapses)
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Connecting the DotsNetworks are connected dots
“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.”
Steven Jobs (1955 -)
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Infectious Disease SpreadingHow Were Dots Connected?
Sept 05 – Sept 12, 2009Sept 12 – Sept 19, 2009Sept 19 – Sept 26, 2009Sept 26 – Oct 03, 2009Oct 03 – Oct 10, 2009Oct 10 – Oct 17, 2009
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How Will the Dots Be Connected?
Dynamic connections are not deterministic, nor random. But they have patterns and trends.
Statistical analysis is like connecting the dots backward, while predicting disease spread is like connecting the dots forward …
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A Simple Relational Model: The SIR Dynamics
Susceptible
Recovered Infectious
Structure-biased k-acquaintance model
Homophily: the tendency to associate with people like yourself Symmetry: undirected links Triad closure: the tendency of one’s acquaintances to also be acquainted with each other
An 8-acquaitance nodeunder SIR
Susceptible RecoveredInfectious
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Structure-Biased Spread
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A Mathematical Model of Spread Prediction
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Mathematical Epidemiology• Most mathematical methods study differential equations based on simplified
assumptions of uniform mixing or ad hoc contact processes• Example:
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Percolation and Outbreak• Large-scale graphs based on scale-free and small-world
models are common platforms to study epidemics
• Individuals (sites) are connected by social contacts (bonds)
• Each site is susceptible with probability p and each bond is open with probability q, indicating infectiousness
• A percolation threshold exists for phase transition of disease spread
– When both p and q are high, a cluster of infectious sites
connected by open bonds will permeate the entire population, resulting in an outbreak
– Otherwise, infectious clusters will be small and isolated
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Percolation Threshold Demo
65 x 65 grid
q = 0.2q = 0.51q = 0.578
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Modeling Challenges• Population and demographics
– urban, suburban, rural, mobility– income, age, gender, education, religion, culture, ethnic
background, household size • Social contact pattern
– household, work, study, shopping, entertainment, travel, medical activities, …
– dense and frequent local contacts; sparse and occasional long-distance contacts
• Infection process– disease characteristics: infectious speed & recovery levels– people's general health level and vaccination history– frequency and duration of contacts
B. Liu and J. Wang et al
It seems difficult to address these challenges using mathematical methods alone
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Computational Methods• Simulations with contingent parameters
– Modeling disease outbreaks in realistic urban social networks (S. Eubank et al. Nature, 2004)
– Understanding the spreading patterns of mobile phone viruses (P. Wang et al., Science, 2009)
BT susceptible phones within the range of an infected BT phone will all be infected. An MMS virus can infect all susceptible phones whose numbers are in the phonebook of an infected phone
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Mobile Networks and OSesLocation, mobility, and communication pattern dynamics
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Online Social Networks (OSNs)• Topological dynamics
– temporal attribute of node and edge arrivals and departures
– explain why the mean degree and characteristic path length tend to be stable over time, while density and scale do not
• Communication dynamics– friendships vs. activities
• Mobility dynamics– GPS-enabled smartphones– location-based applications
G. Chen, B. Liu, J. Wang et al
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The Rise of OSNs• 1997: SixDegrees allowed users to create
profiles, list and surf and friend lists
• 1997-2001: a number of community tools support profile and friend lists, AsianAvenue, BlackPlanet, MiGente, LiveJournal
• 2001 - present : business and professional social network emerged, Ryze, LinkedIn
• 2003: MySpace attracts teens, bands, among others and grows to largest OSN
• 2004: Facebook designed for college networking (Harvard), expanded to other colleges, high schools, and other individuals
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Common OSNs
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OSNs Go Mobile
• Location aware – GPS-enabled phones, sharing current location, availability, attaching
location to user-generated content
• Outlook– anticipated $3.3 billion revenue by 2013
• Dodgeball, Loopt, Brightkite, Whrrl, Google Latitude, Foursquare
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PageRank for Measuring Page Popularity
Biased Random Walks
Just walk at random?
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Association Rank for Friendship Prediction
G. Chen and J. Wang et al
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• Startup in 2005, Denver, CO; opened to public: 2008
• User activities– Check in, status update, photo upload– All attached with current location– Updates through SMS, Email, Web, iPhone …
• Social graph with mutual connection– See your friends’ or local activity streams
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Data Trace• Brightkite Web APIs
• 12/9/08-1/9/09: 18,951 active users
• Back traced to 3/21/08: 1,505,874 updates
• Profile: age, gender, tags, friends list
• Social graph: 41,014 nodes and 46,172 links
• Testing data: next 45 days had 5,098 new links added
G. Chen and N. Li
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Snapshots taken from 12/09/08 to 01/09/09
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Three Attributes to Measure Community Rank
Tags
Social Distance
Location
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Probability Measure
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Tag Graph Metric
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Social Distance
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Location Metric
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Community Rank ValueIndicating the likelihood of friendship
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ROC Curve
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MySpace• Launched in Santa Monica,
CA, in 2003 • Grew rapidly and attracted
Friendster’s users, bands, …• Teenagers began joining en
masse in 2004• Three distinct populations
began to form:– musicians/artists– teenagers– post-college urban social crowd
• Purchased by News Corporation for $580M in 2005
• Arguably the largest online social network site
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MySpace Profile and Activities• Each profile: age, gender, location, last login time,
etc; identified by a unique ID– Some profiles claim neutral gender, e.g, bands
• Profiles can be set to private (default is public)• What can users do?
– search and add friends to their friend lists– post messages to friend’s blog space
• Only friends have access to private profile’s friend list and blog space
• Other functions: IM/Call, Block/Rank User, Add to Group favorite
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Measurement: SnailCrawler• Generate random IDs
uniformly between 1 and max (1,500,000,000)
• Many IDs are not occupied (invalid)
• Retrieve profile information from MySpace (HTTP)– name, ID, gender, age, location, public/private/custom
– other information for public profiles: company, religion, marriage, children, smoke/drink, orientation, zodiac, education, ethnicity, occupation, hometown, body-type, mood, last login, …
W. Gauvin, B. Liu, X. Fu, J. Wang et al
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Data Trace
• People of 16 years old or younger are protected by law
• Teenagers and twenties post most blogs
• False ages at 98-100 years old
• Among teenagers 16-19, female publish more than male
• After 20, no significant differences; often male publish more than female
• Scanned: 3,090,016– Blogs: 67,045
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Blog publish time (on special days)
Feb Sept Dec
• females publish more than males, and male more than neutral• spikes on holidays, e.g., Valentine’s day, Christmas
Valentine’s day
Christmas
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Blog publish time (month & week)
• females publish more than males• more blogs posted May to Oct• slightly more blogs posted during weekdays
Sun Mon
Jan Dec Sun Sat
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Blog publish time (within a day)
• big jump at 1 pm • people tend to publish from afternoon well into mid-night• peak around 10pm, bottom around 5am
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