Stephanos Androutsellis PhD research plan

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

No	Section	Comments	Status	Target
1.	Introduction	...
1.1.	Overview of my research and motivation	Use Ptrim S1	Needs editing and writing	0.5D
1.2.	Main results and original contributions	...	Needs writing	0.5D
1.3.	Organisation of thesis	...	Needs writing	0.3D
2.	Theory and background	...
2.1.	Introduction – big picture	...	Needs writing	0.3D
2.2.	P2P networks and architectures	Based on ACM survey	Almost ready, need some formatting	0.2D
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	0.2D
2.3.2	Definitions and requirements analysis		Almost ready, need some formatting	0.2D
2.4.	Centralized and distributed reputation management	Survey of current approaches
2.4.1.	Social behaviour and incentives		Almost ready, need some formatting	0.5D
2.4.2.	Trust and reputation		Almost ready, need some formatting	0.5D
2.4.3.	Reputation management		Almost ready, need some formatting	0.2D
2.4.4.	Distributed reputation management		Almost ready, need some formatting	0.2D
2.4.5.	The MoR-Trust system		Needs editing	0.3D
2.5.	Market-based risk management	Financial derivatives, risk management, market efficiency. Use Ptrim S2.1. S2.4	Needs editing	0.3D
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.	Needs writing	0.3D
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	Needs writing	0.5D
3.2.	Limits of research scope	Things that are not our problem ( References to Section 7).	Needs writing	0.5D
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.	Needs writing	0.5D
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.	Needs editing and writing	0.5D
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.	Needs editing and writing	0.5D
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.	Needs writing	1D
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.	Needs editing and writing	0.5D
4.3.2.	Methodology for evaluation	How will we evaluate the results.	Needs editing and writing	0.5D
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	Needs editing and writing	1D
4.4.2.	Methodology for evaluation	How will we evaluate the results (market efficiency, risk reduction, questionnaires etc)	Needs editing and writing	1D
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	...	Needs editing and writing	1D
5.2.	Ptrim implementation details	How we implemented this: Java, jxta, messaging, etc Use Ptrim S3.2.	Needs editing and writing	1D
5.3.	Composite experiment setup
5.3.1	Implementation	How we implemented this: Perl/CGI/MySQL etc.	Needs editing and writing	1D
5.3.2.	Data crawling	How we did this	Needs editing	0.5D
6.	Results, evaluation and discussion	...
6.1.	Evaluation of prototype trial outcomes	Use Ptrim S5.1. Refer to hypotheses	Needs editing and writing	0.5D
6.2.	Evaluation of composite trial outcomes	Use Ptrim S5.2. Refer to hypotheses	Needs editing and writing	2D
6.3.	Discussion of overall findings and implications for our approach	...	Needs writing	0.5D
7.	Future work	Mention these also in Section 3.b.
7.1.	Security	...	Needs editing	0.5D
7.2.	Collusion detection	...	Needs editing	0.5D
7.3.	Insuring insurance transactions	...	Needs editing	0.5D
7.4.	Further experiments and simulation studies	...	Needs editing	0.5D
8.	Conclusions and synopsis	...	Needs writing	1D

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.