Centre of Excellence in Social Network Computing

The Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Social Network Computing is an interdisciplinary forum aimed at addressing the Research Issues and Challenges in Social Network Computing and to come out with solutions, prototypes, patents, etc. The CoE has researchers from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Applications, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Humanities, and Mathematics.

The activities of CoE are as follows:

I.Research Focus

Security in Social Networks

  • Intrusion Detection and Prevention
  • Cryptography and Security Protocols
  • Authentication and Identification
  • Security in Web Services
  • Denial of Service and other attacks

Security for Personal Data and DataCentre of Excellence in Social Network Computing bases

  • Piracy Detection and Tracing
  • Social Information Retrieval
  • Social Semantic Indexing and Search
  • Social Data Analysis and Mining
  • Social Semantic Web

Content Based Social Network Analysis

  • Sentiment analysis, Opinion identification, and Extraction
  • Discovery, collection, and extraction of social data
  • Data analysis and indexing

Theory and Models of Trust

  • Trusted Computing
  • Risk assessment
  • Forecasting Terrorism
  • Human Psychology and Behavior analysis

Security in Wireless Networks

  • Peer-to-Peer networks
  • GSM/GPRS/UMTS systems
  • Cloud computing
  • Grid computing

Forensic Engineering

  • Evidence collection and analysis

II. Development of Social Network Testbed

As the existing social networking platforms may not share their data for our research, the development of a social network testbed is being planned.

III. Research Issues and Challenges in Social Network Computing

Resource Persons for the One Day Seminar

Intended Audience

  • Students
  • Faculty Members
  • Researchers
  • Engineers
  • Application Developers

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