Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

CIFRE Grant of Technicolor

Participants : Mathieu Leconte, Marc Lelarge, Laurent Massoulié.

The CIFRE grant of Mathieu started in January 2011. The topic bears on information dissemination and recommendation in social networks. The distribution of multimedia content and the use of social networks like Facebook, Orkut, etc. are booming in today's networks. These social networks are also increasingly used for dissemination and recommendation of content. The objective of the thesis will be to develop an understanding of how information disseminates in social networks based on the type of information, user tastes, and the topological structure of these networks. This study will result in developing methods for more effective dissemination of content.