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Alan Mislove
Researcher at Northeastern University
Publications - 122
Citations - 16193
Alan Mislove is an academic researcher from Northeastern University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social network & The Internet. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 117 publications receiving 14389 citations. Previous affiliations of Alan Mislove include Max Planck Society & Rice University.
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Analyzing Ethereum's Contract Topology
TL;DR: This paper examines how contracts in Ethereum are created, and how users and contracts interact with one another, and finds that contracts today are three times more likely to be created by other contracts than they are by users, and that over 60% of contracts have never been interacted with.
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Experiences in building and operating ePOST, a reliable peer-to-peer application
TL;DR: The problems and pitfalls encountered in this p2p-based email system were able to be addressed by applying known principles of system design, while others turned out to be novel and fundamental, requiring us to devise new solutions.
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Iolaus: securing online content rating systems
TL;DR: An evaluation of Iolaus using microbenchmarks, synthetic data, and real-world content rating data demonstrates that the system is able to outperform existing approaches and serve as a practical defense against multiple-identity and rating-buying attacks.
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Content distribution network using a web browser and locally stored content to directly exchange content between users
Alan Mislove,Ravi Sundaram +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, program code is added to a social network's web pages or site such that the content a first user accesses is locally stored at the first user's system when another user browses to that same content, instead of directly from the social networking site.
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Measuring the Facebook advertising ecosystem
Athanasios Andreou,Márcio José da Silva,Fabrício Benevenuto,Oana Goga,Patrick Loiseau,Alan Mislove +5 more
TL;DR: The results reveal that users are targeted by a wide range of advertisers and that a non-negligible fraction of advertisers are part of potentially sensitive categories such as news and politics, health or religion; that a significant number of advertisers employ targeting strategies that could be either invasive or opaque.