The Security Reading Group is a weekly seminar for discussing research papers, emerging problems, interesting issues in information and network security. It is an informal discussion forum and all graduate students are welcome to join, present and contribute. This group is supervised by professor Mohamed Shehab, from the Department of Software and Information Systems.

This group meets every Thursday at 3 PM in Room 306A.

Spring 2009 schedule

Date	Topic
1/15/2009	Introduction & Assignment
1/22/2009	None
1/29/2009	Presenter: Gorrel P Cheek - The Convergence of Social and Technological Networks -Jon Kleinberg - (Under)mining Privacy in Social Networks - Monica Chew, et.al. - Maximizing the spread of influence through a social network - Jon Kleinberg, et.al. - Group Formation in Large Social Networks: Membership, Growth, and Evolution - Jon Kleinberg, et.al. - Feedback Effects between Similarity and Social Influence in Online Communities - Jon Kleinberg, et.al.
2/5/2009	Presenter: Moo Nam Ko -Paper: Complex Problem Solving: Identity Matching Based on Social. Contextual Information - Jennifer Xu, et al.
2/12/2009	Presenter: Said Marouf -Paper: Dynamic Access Control Prediction for Ordered Service Sequence in Grid Environment
2/19/2009	Presenter: Andrew Besmer -Paper: Modeling user choice in the PassPoints graphical password scheme
2/26/2009	Presenter:Jing Jing -Paper: Conflict Classification and Analysis of Distributed Firewall Policies
3/5/2009	Presenter: Wenjuan Xu -Paper: PRIMA:Policy-Reduced Integrity Measurement Architecture
3/12/2009	Spring Break
3/19/2009	Presenter: Special Guest -MS .NET
3/26/2009	Presenter: Napoleon Paxton -paper: Extracting Precursor Pules from Time Serise - A Classical Statistical Viewpoint
4/2/2009	Presenter: Dr. Mohamed Shehab -Reserch issues in social networks