Who we are
and how to find us
The Digital Rights and Knowledge Engineering research group lead by professor Greg Heileman conducts research in the following areas:
- Intelligent Agents and Agent-based Negotiations
- Digital Rights Management
- Trust in Semantic Web and Social Networks
- Information Valuation and Personalization
Our weekly meeting typically includes a presentation and is generally scheduled at 2:00 on Fridays in the ECE building in room 237. We're always looking for new members so stop by if you're interested.
News
what's new
Watermarking toolkit
Greg has provided a matlab-based watermarking toolkit. Enjoy!
Papers
papers we've written
Middleware Services for DRM
This paper covers a prototype design, rationale for,
and detail of specific digital rights management middleware services.
Experimental Bounds on the Usefulness of Personalized and Topic-Sensitive PageRank
This paper by Sinan and Greg
examines how useful personalizing PageRank can be.
Presentations
presentations we've given
A Model of BitTorrent Networks
This presentation reviews Qiu and Strikant's paper covering modeling and anaysis of BitTorrent-like peer-to-peer networks. The presentation essentially follows the format of the paper, covering the fluid model's derivation in a bit more detail, going over results, and addressing conclusions.