Social Systems: Can We Do More Than Just Poke Friends?
Summary: Presents CourseRank, a course-evaluation/planning social system, using its implementation to reveal social-site-specific design and data-management issues. Argues such systems pose novel DB research challenges—privacy, trust, incentives, heterogeneous social data, and UI/analytics—that deserve DB community attention. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Georgia Koutrika (Stanford University)
- 2. Benjamin Bercovitz (Stanford University)
- 3. Robert Ikeda (Stanford University)
- 4. Filip Kaliszan (Stanford University)
- 5. Henry Liou (Stanford University)
- 6. Zahra Mohammadi Zadeh (Stanford University)
- 7. Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{koutrika_cidr09,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '09},
title = {{Social Systems: Can We Do More Than Just Poke Friends?}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Koutrika, Georgia and Bercovitz, Benjamin and Ikeda, Robert and Kaliszan, Filip and Liou, Henry and Zadeh, Zahra Mohammadi and Garcia-Molina, Hector},
year = {2009}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 7,999 | CourseRank: A Social System for Course Planning | 2009 | SIGMOD | 5.5093407e-05 |
| 8,447 | Entangled Transactions | 2011 | VLDB | 5.423779e-05 |
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