· Social Network Data Analysis on Big Data Processing Platforms (joint work with Dr. Ibrahim Korpeoglu)

Development, implementation and evaluation of algorithms/methods to process/analyze social network data for various social network problems.

See:

Ø H. Aksu, M. Canim, Y. C. Chang, I. Korpeoglu, Ö. Ulusoy, Efficient Community Identification and Maintenance at Multiple Resolutions on Distributed Datastores, Data & Knowledge Engineering, vo.100, Part A, 2015. ( pdf copy)

Ø H.  Aksu, M. Canim, Y. C. Chang, I. Korpeoglu, Ö. Ulusoy, Multi-resolution Social Network Community Identification and Maintenance on Big Data Platform, 2nd IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BigData’13), Santa Clara, CA, USA, June 2013. ( pdf copy) Best Paper Award

Ø H. Aksu, M. Canim, Y. C. Chang, I. Korpeoglu, Ö. Ulusoy, Distributed k-Core View Materialization and Maintenance for Large Dynamic Graphs,  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol.26, no.10, 2014. ( pdf copy)