CSE 40437/60437 - Social Sensing and Cyber-Physical Systems - Spring 2015
Instructor
Prof. Dong Wang
dwang5 at nd dot edu
Office Hours: Tue 3:15-5:15 PM, 214B Cushing Hall,
TA: Chao Huang
chuang7 at nd dot edu
Office Hours: Mon 4-6 PM, Thur 4-6 PM, 254 Fitzpatrick Hall
Lecture Time
Tuesday and Thursday, 2:00-3:15 pm, DeBartolo Hall 117
Course Overview
Online social media (e.g., Twitter, Facebook), smartphones, and ubiquitous internet connectivity have greatly facilitated data sharing at scale, allowing for a firehose of human and sensor observations to pour in about the physical world in real-time. This opens up unprecedented challenges and opportunities in the field of social sensing and cyber-physical systems (CPS) where an important goal is to efficiently organize the real-time data feeds and accurately reconstruct the "states of the world", both physical and social. This course offers students the opportunity to learn the theoretical foundations, state-of-the-art techniques, and hands-on experience in this exciting area. The topic of this class is timely due to the increasing interest in online social networks, big data, and human-in-the-loop systems, as well as the proliferation of computing artifacts that interact with or monitor the physical world.
The class contains four main components: (i) the introduction to social sensing and cyber-physical systems; (ii) key technical challenges (e.g., big data analytics, system reliability, user mobility, energy, privacy, etc.); (iii) state-of-the-art techniques and systems (e.g., MapReduce/Hadoop, fact-finding, etc); (iv) emerging applications (smartphone-based crowdsensing, online social media sensing, participatory/opportunistic sensing, intelligent transportation, smart buildings, body area networks etc). The students will have the opportunities to work with real world social sensing and cyber-physical system problems.
Getting Help
Piazza Discussion Page - General announcement, lecture notes and Q&A after class
Office Hours - Please refer to the above schedule.
Email - Contact Prof. Wang for questions about grades, course policies, etc.
Grades are available in Sakai.
Course Documents
Syllabus
Course Project
Mid-term Project Presentation
In-class Paper Presentation
Final Project Presentation
Grading
10% of the grade will be assigned on individuals' class participation and proactive discussion of lecture topics and project presentations (Individual based).
10% of the grade will be assigned on an in-class paper presentation on the selected topic by each group. (Group based)
30% of the grade will be assigned on individuals' homework assignment (Individual based).
50% of the grade will be determined by a group course project. This grade includes project proposal, mid-term report, mid-term project presentation, a final project presentation, a final project paper, and project updates and demonstrations (to the instructor). The project will implement some innovative social sensing model, service, system, or computing environment. Students will be allowed to work in groups of up to 3 on the project. The project will proceed through the landmarks stated below. (Group based)
5%: Project discussion and updates
5%: Project proposal
5%: Mid-term project presentation
10%: Mid-term project report
10%: Final project presentation
15%: Final project paper
Note: For individual based work, each student will receive the credit based on her/his own work. For the group based work, every student in the group will receive the same credit based on the group's work.
This class follows the binding Code of Honor at Notre Dame. The graded work you do in this class must be your own. In the case where you collaborate with other students make sure to fairly attribute their contribution to your project.
You must read and abide by the Academic Code of Honor. http://honorcode.nd.edu
The project will be chosen by each group within the first couple of weeks of class. The only restriction of the project is that it should use online social media data (e.g., Twitter, Flickr, Foursquare, Facebook, etc.) to solve some interesting problem in social sensing. Here are some ideas to help you get started. Groups are encouraged to come up with their own ideas. If you have some really cool idea that does not satisfy such restriction, please schedule a meeting to discuss it with the instructor. Project title, abstract, and member list is due on Noon, January 30.
Each group will schedule a regular meeting (during project meeting slots and office hours) to meet with the instructor and discuss the progress and problems encountered on their projects.
Each group will prepare and submit a two page project proposal. The proposal should include an overview of the project (preferably with a diagram), a brief review of state-of-the-arts in related fields, a credible set of initial project results if available, a list of further proposed milestones, and a plan of action for the rest of the semester. The proposal is due on Noon, February 20.
Each group is responsible for a Mid-term Project Presentation in class starting from March 17. The presentation will allow the instructor and classmates to comment on the initial results and current state of the project and also give constructive feedback to the group members.
Each group will prepare and submit a four page mid-term project report. The mid-term report should include a reasonable amount of preliminary results, a description of finished milestones, a discussion of encountered problems and relevant solutions, and any modifications to the plan (if there are) to finish the remaining tasks. The mid-term report is due on Noon, March 20.
Final project presentations will be conducted by each group starting from the week of April 28.
Each group will prepare and submit a final project paper. The final project paper is a comprehensive summary of the whole project and should follow a technical paper writing style. The expected number of pages for the final paper is 8 to 10 pages (including references). Final project paper is due on Noon, May 4th.
The proposal, mid-term report and final project paper should all follow a standard technical paper format . Here is the template: IEEE Latex or Word Template .
A successful project could result in a conference or journal quality paper.
Note : For more information about the project (e.g., possible ideas and milestones), please visit Course Project Page
You are encouraged to seek out and exploit external manuals, books, websites, and other documentation that can help you to complete your project, provided that you indicate what sources you have used. However, all software development, experimental work, and writing of the proposal, report and paper must be done solely by you and your project partner(s).
Each group will do an in-class paper presentation to present a selected technical paper in the week of April 21.
The in-class paper presentation will provide good opportunities for you to exercise your scientific presentation ability, practice critical thinking, understand how to judge and challenge other's work in a professional way, and learn how to organize and lead an active scientific/technical discussion session.
Detailed instructions are available here
Tentative Schedule
Note: Lecture notes are avaliable on Piazza.
Week
| Lecture
| Materials
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January 13
| Social Sensing and Cyber-Physical Systems Landscape
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Reading:
Introduction to Social Sensing
Cyber-Physical Systems: The Next Computing Revolution
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January 20 - 27
| Data Reliability and Information Overload
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Reading:
Truth Discovery in Social Sensing
Quantifying the Quality of Information
Using Humans as Sensors
Exploitation of Physical Constraints
Assignment 1 is out, due: Feb. 3rd
Project Title, Abstract and Member List Due Friday, January 30
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February 3
| Project Kick-off Meetings
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Sign up your slots on doodle
Assignment 2 is out, due: Feb. 17
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February 10
| Online Social Media Sensing
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Reading:
Earthquake Shakes Twitter Users
From Tweets to Polls
You Are Where You Tweet
Groundhog Day: Near-Duplicate Detection on Twitter
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February 17
| Big Data Issues
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Reading:
Big Table Paper
Map-Reduce Paper
Data Cube Paper
Assignment 3 is out, Due: Noon, Mar. 6
Project Proposal Due Friday, Noon, February 20
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February 24
| Crowdsensing and Mobile Sensing
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Reading:
A Survey of Mobile Sensing
How Long to Wait: Bus Arrival Time Prediction
Automatically Characterizing Places
Personal Environmental Impact Report
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March 3
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Project Mid-term Meetings
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Sign up your slots on doodle
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March 10
| Spring Break
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March 17
| Mid-term Project Presentations
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Mid-term Project Presentation
Project Mid-term Report Due Friday, Noon, March 20
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March 24
| Automotive Sensing and Intelligent Tranportation
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Reading:
GreenGPS: A Participatory Sensing Fuel-Efficient Maps Application
SignalGuru: A Collaborative Traffic Signal Schedule Advisory Service
CarSpeak: A Content-Centric Network for Autonomous Driving
Human-centric Data Fusion in Vehicular Cyber-Physical Systems
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March 31
| Energy Issues
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Reading:
mPlatform: Energy-Optimal Scheduling and Data Processing
ACE: Energy-Efficient Conntinous Context Sensing
Smart Thermostat: Save Energy in Homes
Wireless Buidling Eenergy Auditing Network
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April 7
| Wearable Sensing and Body-Area Sensor Network
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Reading:
Body Sensor Networks (BSN)
Accurate Caloric Expenditure of Bicyclists using Cellphones
RadioSense: ExploitingWireless Communication Patterns for BSN
BodyScope: A Wearable Acoustic Sensor for Activity Recognition
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April 14
| Guest Lecture and Paper Presentation Preparations
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Guest Lecture:
Solving Big Graph Problems By Thinking Like a Vertex , Prof. Tim Weninger
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April 21
| Medical Sensing, Privacy or Open Issues (Students In-class Presentation)
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In-class Paper Presentation
Reading:
Medical Sensing:
Detecting Cocaine Use with Wearable Electrocardiogram Sensors
Sensor Selection for Energy-Efficient Ambulatory Medical Monitoring
Real-time Clinical Monitoring and Deterioration Warning
Context-Aware Assisted-Living and Residential Monitoring
Cyber-Physical Modeling of Implantable Cardiac Medical Devices
BiliCam: Using Mobile Phones to Monitor Newborn Jaundice
Privacy:
ProtectMyPrivacy: Detecting and Mitigating Privacy Leaks on iOS Devices
Cloud-Enabled Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Learning for Mobile Sensing
Understanding Users' Mental Models of Mobile App Privacy through Crowdsourcing
Privacy Manipulation and Acclimation in a Location Sharing Application
Privacy-aware Regression Modeling of Participatory Sensing Data
Privacy.Tag: Privacy Concern Expressed and Respected
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April 28
| Final Project Presentations
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Final Project Presentation
Final Project Paper Due Monday, Noon, May 4
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