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* Follow SOPRANO accounting stuff.
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* Follow DIEPTELO accounting stuff.
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* Prepare for SOPRANO Bilbao meeting (June 10-12).


==PhD thesis table of contents==
==PhD thesis table of contents==


See google docs...
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! 1.
| Introduction
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! 1.1.
| Overview of my research and motivation
| Use Ptrim S1
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! 1.2.
| Main results and original contributions
| ...
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! 1.3.
| Organisation of thesis
| ...
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! 2.
| Theory and background
| ...
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! 2.1.
| Introduction – big picture
| ...
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! 2.2.
| P2P networks and architectures
| Based on ACM survey
| Almost ready, need some formatting
| 1D
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! 2.3.
| Transaction processing systems
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! 2.3.1
| Online Transaction processing systems
| Compared to centralized, characteristics, requirements (use e-commerce paper)
| Almost ready, need some formatting
| 1D
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! 2.3.2
| Definitions and requirements analysis
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| Almost ready, need some formatting
| 1D
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! 2.4.
| Centralized and distributed reputation management
| Survey of current approaches
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! 2.5.
| Market-based risk management
| Financial derivatives, risk management, market efficiency. Use Ptrim S2.1. S2.4
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! 2.6.
| Auxiliary theory and tools used in this research
| Mention, with references to Sections, we’ll be talking about crawling utilities, importance sampling, Java/jxta development etc.
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! 3.
| Problem definition and proposed solution
| ...
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! 3.1.
| Definition of problem we want to attack: Managing P2P transaction risk
| Includes general and also specific goals
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! 3.2.
| Limits of research scope
| Things that are not our problem ( References to Section 7).
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! 3.3.
| Proposed solution: A Market based approach
| At an abstract level. Use patent literature for ideas.
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! 3.3.1.
| Relation to other approaches
| Complementary to reputation management, explain how the two could cooperate.
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! 3.3.2.
| Abstract description of proposed solution.
| Abstract design and architecture. Description of the market-based insurance layer, and the Ptrim system. Use Ptrim S2.3. Talk about need for efficient, competitive market. Use Ptrim S3.1.
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! 4.
| Methodology
| ...
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! 4.1.
| Description of our overall approach
| We’ll build a prototype and test it, and we’ll also run composite experiments and evaluate the results.
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! 4.2.
| Hypotheses
| What were our specific hypotheses (H1, H2, H3). We’ll refer to them in d and e below, and also again in Section 6.
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! 4.3.
| Prototype system trials
| What sort of trials we ran with the prototype. Use Ptrim S4.1. Which hypotheses do we address here.
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! 4.3.1.
| Experimental setup
| How the experiment will work, software tool, subjects, questionnaires etc.
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! 4.3.2.
| Methodology for evaluation
| How will we evaluate the results.
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! 4.4.
| Composite experimental trials
| Use Ptrim S4.2. Which hypotheses do we address here.
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! 4.4.1.
| Experimental setup
| How the experiment will work, software tool, subjects, questionnaires etc. Use Ptrim S
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! 4.4.2.
| Methodology for evaluation
| How will we evaluate the results (market efficiency, risk reduction, questionnaires etc)
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! 5.
| Design and implementation
| Follows the structure of 3c, but not at an abstract level any more, we refer to design and implementation. Lots of UML diagrams
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! 5.1.
| Design of Ptrim system
| ...
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! 5.2.
| Ptrim implementation details
| How we implemented this: Java, jxta, messaging, etc Use Ptrim S3.2.
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! 5.3.
| Composite experiment setup
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! 5.3.1
| Implementation
| How we implemented this: Perl/CGI/MySQL etc.
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! 5.3.2.
| Data crawling
| How we did this
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! 6.
| Results, evaluation and discussion
| ...
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! 6.1.
| Evaluation of prototype trial outcomes
| Use Ptrim S5.1. Refer to hypotheses
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! 6.2.
| Evaluation of composite trial outcomes
| Use Ptrim S5.2. Refer to hypotheses
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! 6.3.
| Discussion of overall findings and implications for our approach
| ...
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! 7.
| Future work
| Mention these also in Section 3.b.
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! 7.1.
| Security
| ...
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! 7.2.
| Collusion detection
| ...
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! 7.3.
| Insuring insurance transactions
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! 7.4.
| Further experiments and simulation studies
| ...
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! 8.
| Conclusions and synopsis
| ...
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==PhD thesis research plan==
==PhD thesis research plan==


* Sept 7th 2008: Chapter 3 draft ready.
* May 29th 2008: Draft version of PhD skeleton, official initiation of writeup
* Sept 14th 2008: Chapter 4 draft ready.
* June 10th 2008: Completion of additional composite experiment with uniformly sampled data on undergrads. This will be used for the thesis, or for future Ptrim paper versions.
* September 2008: Expected revision of Ptrim journal paper.
* September 2008: Expected revision of Ptrim journal paper.
* July 10th 2008: First draft of thesis for overview with dds.
* October 31st 2008: Entire thesis draft ready for review by dds.
* August 25th 2008: Second draft of thesis for overview with dds.
* November 31st 2008: Final thesis version ready for submission.
* September 20th 2008: Thesis version ready for review with dds.
* December 2008: Thesis presentation and PhD completion.
* October 15th 2008: Final thesis version ready for submission.
* November 2008: Thesis presentation and PhD completion.

Latest revision as of 08:02, 27 August 2008

Publications Plan

  • Currently I only focus on thesis write-up. There are no specific goals for other publications.

Non-thesis-related personal plans

  • Follow SENSE/PENED accounting stuff.
  • Follow SOPRANO accounting stuff.
  • Follow DIEPTELO accounting stuff.

PhD thesis table of contents

See google docs...

PhD thesis research plan

  • Sept 7th 2008: Chapter 3 draft ready.
  • Sept 14th 2008: Chapter 4 draft ready.
  • September 2008: Expected revision of Ptrim journal paper.
  • October 31st 2008: Entire thesis draft ready for review by dds.
  • November 31st 2008: Final thesis version ready for submission.
  • December 2008: Thesis presentation and PhD completion.