DODESCADEN -- Data and cOntent DElivery in SoCial networks: An epiDEmic aNalysis.

Dodescaden involves technology, art, and society. The word "Dodescaden" stands for the sound that the train does, as we learn in Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece which carries this name. The train, although existing only in the immagination of its unemployed driver, allows that driver to pursue a regular life and also helps him in creating interactions with those virtual passangers that he meets everyday.

The passangers in our project are even more virtual - they consist of data and content: symbols, letters, words and sentences, that move through data highways over which social networks are built.

In the Dodescaden project we create content: paintings, music, dance video and films. We then tweet them over social networks and help them compete for visibility and recognition, using game theoretic models. So far, my Dodescaden project has been as virtual as the train in Kurosawa's film, and yet as present as that train is for the driver.

Publications:

[d1] "A stochastic game approach for competition over popularity in social networks", Eitan Altman, to appear in Dynamic Games and Applications, (Elsevier), special Issue on stochastic games, 2012.

[d2] "Game theoretic approaches for studying competition over popularity and over advertisement space in social networks", Eitan Altman, [hal-00683781 - version 1] Valuetools, 2012.

[d3] "An epidemic game between contents in a wireless network", , Eitan Altman, hal-00690347, version 1 Proc of IEEE IWCSC, August, Paris, France.

[d4] "The Interplay Between Caching and Popularity", Majed Haddad and Eitan Altman, International conference on NETwork Games, December, Paris, 2011 hal-00644545, version 1

[d5] "Bio-inspired paradigms in Network Engineering Games", Eitan Altman, (2012) [hal-00686179 - version 1], to appear in Journal of Dynamics and Games (JDG), 2012.

[d6] "In which Content to Specialize? A game theoretic analysis", Eitan Altman, ETICS workshop, IFIP Networking, Prague, Czech Republic, 21-25 May 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012, Volume 7291, Pages 121-125

Other related papers:

[d7] Twitter and the Geo-linguistic fingerprint Eitan Altman and Yonathan Portilla, To appear in the proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), August, Istanbul, August 2012 [pdf]. See also [hal-00674853 - version 2]

[d8] "Probabilistic Analysis of Buffer Starvation in Markovian Queues", [pdf] Yuedong Xu, Eitan Altman, Rachid El-Azouzi, Majed Haddad, Salah Eddine Elayoubi and Tania Jimenez, The 31st Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'2012), Orlando, Florida, USA, 25 march, 2012

[d9] Analysis of Media Streaming in Wireless Data Networks, Yuedong Xu, Eitan altman, Rachid El-Azouzi, Salaheddine Elayoubi and Majed Haddad, Networking, Prague, Czech Republic, 21-25 May 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012, Volume 7290, Pages 343-354



Sample of recent content created within Dodescaden:





By creating our own content we have access to much more details on the dissemination of this content that Youtube provides to owwner of contents.

For more content, see my two Youtube channels: Art creation (music and painting) as well as Dance and Singing See my daughter's youtube page

I have been creating with my son Daniel videos for children (Peter and the Wolf, le Corbeau et le Renard). The next one, called "La Cigale et la Fourmi" was done in my room in the Latimone hospital just before I went through a brain surgery for my Parkinson Desease which had been accompanying me every step during the last 12 years.

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