Publications

Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Networks, Communications and Systems
2024

Bin Zia H, He J,
Castro I and
Tyson G (2024).
Fediverse Migrations: A Study of User Account Portability on the Mastodon Social Network. Proceedings of the 2024 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference.
04-11-2024
Balduf L, Sokoto S, Ascigil O,
Tyson G, Scheuermann B, Korczyński M,
Castro I and Król M (2024).
Looking AT the Blue Skies of Bluesky. Proceedings of the 2024 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference.
04-11-2024
Bin Zia H,
Castro I and
Tyson G (2024).
Mastodoner: A Command-line Tool and Python Library for Public Data Collection from Mastodon. Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.
21-10-2024
He Y, Gu Y, Shekhar R,
Castro I and
Tyson G (2024).
Making the Pick: Understanding Professional Editor Comment Curation in Online News. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media,
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) vol. 18, 557-568.
28-05-2024
Barnes MR, Karan M, McQuistin S, Perkins C,
Tyson G,
Purver M,
Castro I and
Clegg RG (2024).
Temporal Network Analysis of Email Communication Patterns in a Long Standing Hierarchy. arxiv.
28-05-2024
Agarwal V, Raman A, Sastry N, Abdelmoniem AM,
Tyson G and
Castro I (2024).
Decentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks: A Conversation-Based Approach for Pleroma and the Fediverse. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media,
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) vol. 18, 2-14.
28-05-2024
Trautwein D, Wei Y, Psaras Y, Schubotz M,
Castro I, Gipp B and
Tyson G (2024).
IPFS in the Fast Lane: Accelerating Record Storage with Optimistic Provide. IEEE INFOCOM 2024 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications.
23-05-2024
Gu Y,
Castro I and
Tyson G (2024).
Detecting Multimodal Fake News with Gated Variational AutoEncoder. ACM Web Science Conference.
21-05-2024
Healey PGT, Khare P,
Castro I,
Tyson G, Karan M, Shekhar R, McQuistin S, Perkins C and
Purver M (2024).
Power and vulnerability: managing sensitive language in organizational communication. Frontiers in Psychology,
Frontiers vol. 14
23-02-2024
Sokoto S, Balduf L, Trautwein D, Wei Y,
Tyson G,
Castro I, Ascigil O, Pavlou G, Korczyński M, Scheuermann B and Król M (2024).
Guardians of the Galaxy: Content Moderation in the InterPlanetary File System. 01-01-2024
Wei Y, Trautwein D, Psaras Y,
Castro I, Scott W, Raman A and
Tyson G (2024).
The Eternal Tussle: Exploring the Role of Centralization in IPFS. 01-01-20242023

He J, Bin Zia H,
Castro I, Raman A, Sastry N and
Tyson G (2023).
Flocking to Mastodon: Tracking the Great Twitter Migration. Proceedings of the 2023 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference.
24-10-2023
Karan M, Khare P, Shekhar R, McQuistin S,
Castro I,
Tyson G, Perkins C,
Healey P and
Purver M (2023).
LEDA: a Large-Organization Email-Based Decision-Dialogue-Act Analysis Dataset. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023.
09-07-2023
Khare P, Shekhar R, Karan M, McQuistin S, Perkins C,
Castro I,
Tyson G,
Healey P and
Purver M (2023).
Tracing Linguistic Markers of Influence in a Large Online Organisation. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers).
09-07-2023
McQuistin S, Karan M, Khare P, Perkins C,
Purver M,
Healey P,
Castro I and
Tyson G (2023).
Errare humanum est: What do RFC Errata say about Internet Standards? 2023 7th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA).
29-06-2023
Iqbal W, Ghafouri V,
Tyson G, Suarez-Tangil G and
Castro I (2023).
Lady and the Tramp Nextdoor: Online Manifestations of Real-World Inequalities in the Nextdoor Social Network. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media,
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) vol. 17, 399-410.
02-06-2023
Vallina P,
Castro I and
Tyson G (2023).
Cashing in on Contacts: Characterizing the OnlyFans Ecosystem. Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023.
30-04-2023
Anaobi IH, Raman A,
Castro I, Zia HB, Ibosiola D and
Tyson G (2023).
Will Admins Cope? Decentralized Moderation in the Fediverse. WWW '23: Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023.
30-04-2023
Hosseini P, Hosseini M, Al-azzawi S, Liwicki M,
Castro I and
Purver M (2023).
Lon-eå at SemEval-2023 Task 11: A Comparison of Activation Functions for Soft and Hard Label Prediction. Proceedings of the The 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023).
01-01-20232022

Iqbal W, Arshad MH,
Tyson G and
Castro I (2022).
Exploring Crowdsourced Content Moderation Through Lens of Reddit during COVID-19. Proceedings of the 17th Asian Internet Engineering Conference.
19-12-2022
Iqbal W,
Tyson G, Ghafouri V, Suarez-Tangil G and
Castro I (2022).
Exploring online manifestations of real-world inequalities. Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference.
25-10-2022
Trautwein D, Raman A,
Tyson G,
CASTRO I, Scott W, Schubotz M, Gipp B and Psaras Y (2022).
Design and Evaluation of IPFS: A Storage Layer for the Decentralized Web. ACM SIGCOMM.
24-08-2022
Trautwein D, Raman A,
Tyson G,
Castro I, Scott W, Schubotz M, Gipp B and Psaras Y (2022).
Design and evaluation of IPFS: a storage layer for the decentralized web. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2022 Conference.
22-08-2022
Bin Zia H, Raman A,
CASTRO I, Anaobi I, De Cristofaro E, SASTRY N and
Tyson G (2022).
Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing. ACM SIGMETRICS.
07-07-2022
Khare P, Karan M, McQuistin S, Perkins C,
Tyson G,
Purver M,
Healey P and
CASTRO I (2022).
The Web We Weave: Untangling the Social Graph of the IETF. AAAI 16th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) Atlanta, Georgia, US and Online 6 Jun 2022 - 9 Jun 2022.
06-06-2022
Bin Zia H, Raman A,
Castro I, Hassan Anaobi I, De Cristofaro E, Sastry N and
Tyson G (2022).
Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing. Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems,
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) vol. 6 (2)
01-06-2022
Zia HB,
Castro I,
Zubiaga A and
Tyson G (2022).
Improving Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Hate Speech Detection with Pseudo-Label Fine-Tuning of Transformer Language Models. 31-05-2022
Mazzola F, Marcos P,
Castro I, Luckie M and Barcellos M (2022).
On the Latency Impact of Remote Peering. Passive and Active Measurement 367-392.
01-01-2022
Gu Y,
Castro I and
Tyson G (2022).
MMVAE at SemEval-2022 Task 5: A Multi-modal Multi-task VAE on Misogynous Meme Detection. 01-01-20222021

Hassan AI, Raman A,
Castro I and
Tyson G (2021).
The impact of Capitol Hill on Pleroma. Proceedings of the CoNEXT Student Workshop.
07-12-2021
Hassan AI, Raman A,
Castro I, Bin Zia H, De Cristofaro E, Sastry N and
Tyson G (2021).
Exploring content moderation in the decentralised web. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies.
02-12-2021
Javed RT, Usama M, Iqbal W, Qadir J,
Tyson G,
Castro I and Garimella K (2021).
A deep dive into COVID-19-related messages on WhatsApp in Pakistan. Social Network Analysis and Mining,
Springer Verlag vol. 12 (1)
15-11-2021
McQuistin S, Karan M, Khare P, Perkins C,
Tyson G,
Purver M,
Healey P, Iqbal W, Qadir J and
Castro I (2021).
Characterising the IETF through the lens of RFC deployment. Proceedings of the 21st ACM Internet Measurement Conference.
02-11-2021
Tajiki MM, Petroudi SHG, Salsano S,
Uhlig S and
Castro I (2021).
Optimal Estimation of Link Delays Based on End-to-End Active Measurements. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management,
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. 18 (4), 4730-4743.
19-08-2021
Zia HB,
Castro I and
Tyson G (2021).
Racist or Sexist Meme? Classifying Memes beyond Hateful. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH 2021).
01-01-20212020

Javed RT, Shuja ME, Usama M, Qadir J, Iqbal W,
Tyson G,
Castro I and Garimella K (2020).
A First Look at COVID-19 Messages on WhatsApp in Pakistan. 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM).
07-12-2020
Latif S, Usman M, Manzoor S, Iqbal W, Qadir J,
Tyson G,
Castro I, Razi A, Boulos MNK, Weller A and Crowcroft J (2020).
Leveraging Data Science To Combat COVID-19: A Comprehensive Review. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence,
IEEE vol. PP (99), 1-1.
02-09-2020
Hu Y, Wang H, He R, Li L,
Tyson G,
Castro I, Guo Y, Wu L and Xu G (2020).
Mobile App Squatting. Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020.
20-04-20202019

Fernandes EL,
Antichi G, Böttger T,
Castro I and
Uhlig S (2019).
Faster Control Plane Experimentation with Horse. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2019 Conference Posters and Demos.
19-08-2019
Ibosiola D,
Castro I, Stringhini G,
Uhlig S and
Tyson G (2019).
Who Watches the Watchmen: Exploring Complaints on the Web. 13-05-20192018

Bruyere M,
Antichi G, Fernandes EL, Lapeyrade R,
Uhlig S, Owezarski P, Moore AW and
Castro I (2018).
Rethinking IXPs’ Architecture in the Age of SDN. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 26-09-2018
Fernandes EL,
Antichi G,
Castro I and
Uhlig S (2018).
An SDN-inspired Model for Faster Network Experimentation. Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation.
14-05-2018
Böttger T, Cuadrado F,
Tyson G,
Castro I and
Uhlig S (2018).
Open Connect Everywhere: A Glimpse at the Internet Ecosystem Through the Lens of the Netflix CDN. SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev.,
ACM vol. 48, 28-34.
01-04-2018
Bruyere M, Lapeyrade R, Fernandes EL,
Castro I,
Uhlig S, Moore AW and
Antichi G (2018).
Umbrella. Proceedings of the Symposium on SDN Research.
28-03-20182017
Antichi G,
Castro I, Chiesa M, Fernandes EL, Lapeyrade R, Kopp D, Han JH, Bruyere M, Dietzel C, Gusat M, Moore AW, Owezarski P,
Uhlig S and Canini M (2017).
ENDEAVOUR: A Scalable SDN Architecture For Real-World IXPs. IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun. vol. 35, 2553-2562.
18-12-2017
Dietzel C,
Antichi G,
Castro I, Fernandes EL, Chiesa M and Kopp D (2017).
SDN-enabled Traffic Engineering and Advanced Blackholing at IXPs. Proceedings of the Symposium on SDN Research.
03-04-2017
TYSON G, Huang S, Cuadrado F,
Castro I, Perta C, Sathiaseelan A and
Uhlig S (2017).
Exploring HTTP Header Manipulation in the Wild. World Wide Web Conference Perth, Australia 3 Apr 2017 - 7 Apr 2017.
03-04-20172016

Chiesa M, Owezarski P,
Uhlig S, Canini M, Dietzel C,
Antichi G, Bruyere M,
Castro I, Gusat M, King T, Moore AW and Nguyen TD (2016).
Inter-domain networking innovation on steroids: empowering ixps with SDN capabilities. IEEE Communications Magazine,
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. 54 (10), 102-108.
11-10-2016
Castro I and Gorinsky S (2016).
Estimating the Real with the Virtual: How does the Accuracy Relate to the Internet Penetration? 2016 8th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS).
01-01-20162015
Castro I, Panda A, Raghavan B, Shenker S and Gorinsky S (2015).
Route bazaar: Automatic interdomain contract negotiation. 01-01-20152014
Castro I, Cardona JC, Gorinsky S and Francois P (2014).
Remote Peering. Proceedings of the 10th ACM International on Conference on emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies.
02-12-20142013
Castro I, Stanojevic R and Gorinsky S (2013).
Using Tuangou to Reduce IP Transit Costs. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking,
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. 22 (5), 1415-1428.
04-09-20132012
Castro I and Gorinsky S (2012).
T4P: Hybrid Interconnection for Cost Reduction. 2012 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM Workshops.
01-03-20122011

Stanojevic R,
Castro I and Gorinsky S (2011).
CIPT. Proceedings of the Seventh COnference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies.
06-12-2011