Description:

The major sub-areas anticipated include, but are not limited to:

Observing, mining, modeling and predicting human behavior over communication networks.

• Measurement based models of human behavior.
• Data Minining and Statistical Methods to analyze large and diverse datasets.
• Models of social networks and their dynamics, and their impact on the network.
• Analysis of cultural, geographic, economic and demographic variations in behavioral patterns.
  RFP: Demographic Variation in Technology Use
• Detection of behavioral anomalies based on observed patterns/models, and spatial/temporal correlations.

New communication mechanisms to induce as well as adapt to desired behavioral changes.

• Mechanism design.
• Socially aware design of networked systems: from communication technologies to user interfaces.
• Cultural, geographic, economic and demographic impact.

Towards building better networked societies

• Reputation systems and their impact on social design.
• Incentives and mechanisms to elicit online participation and collaboration.
• Building distributed virtual environments and their positive impact on society.

Privacy and Anonymity issues

• Privacy preserving mining algorithms.
• Protecting/Anonmyzing user identity.

If your research topic doesn't directly address any of the RFPs listed above, please submit it as a generic proposal for this area.

If you have comments, questions or feedback related to this area please don’t hesitate to contact us at research-human-network@cisco.com