Programme International Internship

PROPOSITION D'UN SUJET DE STAGE / INTERNSHIP SUBJECT PROPOSAL

Nom du projet/Research team name : ASAP
Centre de recherche/Research Center : Saclay
Thème INRIA/Research theme : Com

Research team leader name : Anne-Marie Kermarrec

Intern tutor(s) : Fabrice Le Fessant
courriel/e-mail : Fabrice.le_fessant@inria.fr

Subject of the Internship : Understanding Social Networks

Intern level : Engineering School
Internship duration (months) : 5

Internship description (about ten lines) :

The goal of this internship is to collect and analyse data from some
popular social networks. Social networks (Facebook, Orkut, Flickr,etc)
have gained a lot of popularity in the last years. They give a good
idea of what the Internet might look like in the future. It is thus
important to study these networks, and to understand how they
evolve. The first goal of this internship is to collect data from one
of these social networks, either using standard crawling engines, or
using the upcoming OpenSocial Google initiative. The second goal of
this internship is to use this data : first, analysis of the data can
lead to exhibit interesting properties of such networks; second, the
data can be used to simulate peer-to-peer networks based on social
links.

Prerequisites :

Network Programming, web programming, open-source software, peer-to-peer