Stephanos Androutsellis PhD research plan
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Publications Plan
- Currently I only focus on thesis write-up. There are no specific goals for other publications.
- Follow SENSE/PENED accounting stuff.
- Follow SOPRANO accounting stuff.
- Follow DIEPTELO accounting stuff.
PhD thesis table of contents
| No | Section | Comments | Status | Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Introduction | ... | ||
| 1.1. | Overview of my research and motivation | Use Ptrim S1 | ||
| 1.2. | Main results and original contributions | ... | ||
| 1.3. | Organisation of thesis | ... | ||
| 2. | Theory and background | ... | ||
| 2.1. | Introduction – big picture | ... | ||
| 2.2. | P2P networks and architectures | Based on ACM survey | Almost ready, need some formatting | 1D |
| 2.3. | Transaction processing systems | |||
| 2.3.1 | Online Transaction processing systems | Compared to centralized, characteristics, requirements (use e-commerce paper) | Almost ready, need some formatting | 1D |
| 2.3.2 | Definitions and requirements analysis | Almost ready, need some formatting | 1D | |
| 2.4. | Centralized and distributed reputation management | Survey of current approaches | ||
| 2.4.1. | Social behaviour and incentives | Almost ready, need some formatting | 1DXXX | |
| 2.4.2. | Trust and reputation | Almost ready, need some formatting | 1DXXX | |
| 2.4.3. | Reputation management | Almost ready, need some formatting | 1DXXX | |
| 2.4.4. | Distributed reputation management | Almost ready, need some formatting | 0.2D | |
| 2.4.5. | The MoR-Trust system | |||
| 2.5. | Market-based risk management | Financial derivatives, risk management, market efficiency. Use Ptrim S2.1. S2.4 | ||
| 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. | ||
| 3. | Problem definition and proposed solution | ... | ||
| 3.1. | Definition of problem we want to attack: Managing P2P transaction risk | Includes general and also specific goals | ||
| 3.2. | Limits of research scope | Things that are not our problem ( References to Section 7). | ||
| 3.3. | Proposed solution: A Market based approach | At an abstract level. Use patent literature for ideas. | ||
| 3.3.1. | Relation to other approaches | Complementary to reputation management, explain how the two could cooperate. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 4. | Methodology | ... | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 4.3. | Prototype system trials | What sort of trials we ran with the prototype. Use Ptrim S4.1. Which hypotheses do we address here. | ||
| 4.3.1. | Experimental setup | How the experiment will work, software tool, subjects, questionnaires etc. | ||
| 4.3.2. | Methodology for evaluation | How will we evaluate the results. | ||
| 4.4. | Composite experimental trials | Use Ptrim S4.2. Which hypotheses do we address here. | ||
| 4.4.1. | Experimental setup | How the experiment will work, software tool, subjects, questionnaires etc. Use Ptrim S | ||
| 4.4.2. | Methodology for evaluation | How will we evaluate the results (market efficiency, risk reduction, questionnaires etc) | ||
| 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 | ||
| 5.1. | Design of Ptrim system | ... | ||
| 5.2. | Ptrim implementation details | How we implemented this: Java, jxta, messaging, etc Use Ptrim S3.2. | ||
| 5.3. | Composite experiment setup | |||
| 5.3.1 | Implementation | How we implemented this: Perl/CGI/MySQL etc. | ||
| 5.3.2. | Data crawling | How we did this | ||
| 6. | Results, evaluation and discussion | ... | ||
| 6.1. | Evaluation of prototype trial outcomes | Use Ptrim S5.1. Refer to hypotheses | ||
| 6.2. | Evaluation of composite trial outcomes | Use Ptrim S5.2. Refer to hypotheses | ||
| 6.3. | Discussion of overall findings and implications for our approach | ... | ||
| 7. | Future work | Mention these also in Section 3.b. | ||
| 7.1. | Security | ... | ||
| 7.2. | Collusion detection | ... | ||
| 7.3. | Insuring insurance transactions | ... | ||
| 7.4. | Further experiments and simulation studies | ... | ||
| 8. | Conclusions and synopsis | ... |
PhD thesis research plan
- May 29th 2008: Draft version of PhD skeleton, official initiation of writeup
- 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.
- July 10th 2008: First draft of thesis for overview with dds.
- August 25th 2008: Second draft of thesis for overview with dds.
- September 20th 2008: Thesis version ready for review with dds.
- October 15th 2008: Final thesis version ready for submission.
- November 2008: Thesis presentation and PhD completion.
