Current Status - 2/1/05

1. Introduction- nothing (2 days)


2. Social Networks - Done. Sent to Jim
   
3. Trust - Done. Sent to Jim
   
4. Background - 4 pages, 1780 words complete. Spotty, but not a lot of thought work to finish.
   
5. Binary Networks - Done. Comments back from Jim.
   
6. Continuous Networks - 17 pages, 4640 words done. Complete introduction, background and properties of experimental networks, properties and behavior of trust in social networks. To do: presentation of the algorithm, analysis of its performance on networks, potentially a comparison to other algorithms on the same networks. (2-3 days of work until first draft unless the comparison is done. Then, 5-6 days)
   
7. FilmTrust - 4 pages, 748 words. Complete background on website. To do: Introduction and related work, analysis of algorithms on the website, comparison to other recommender system algorithms. (5-6 days of work until first draft).
   
8. TrustMail - 3 pages, 1309 words. Background and introduction, description of the software complete. Todo: some sort of analysis of the results. (3-4 days of work to come up with analysis method, perform it, and write it up).
   
   
9. Conclusions - nothing. (2 days)
   
10. Future work - 2 pages, 489 words. MOAM completed. To do: write up of other applications; terrorism, expert social network, possibly filtering of statements. (2-3 days of work to get basic introductions to topics, 3-4 to present anything resulty).
    
    

Those days estimates add up to 24. That does not include time for revisions with Jim and days spent on work outside of the dissertation. So far, it looks achievable. In 24 days, we'll be down to 35 days to defense, and 14 days to when the dissertation needs to go to committee. With parallel editing, that should be achievable.