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Maarten van Steen

Maarten van Steen

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Computer Science
Netherlands
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
54
Citations
19982
World Ranking
4442
National Ranking
61

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Maarten van Steen is affiliated with the University of Twente in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the fields of computer science, social sciences, and engineering through a combination of research and publications. Their work spans various subfields including computer networks and communications, electrical and electronic engineering, artificial intelligence, transportation, and information systems.

Their research addresses a range of topics, notably in human mobility and location-based analysis, indoor and outdoor localization technologies, privacy-preserving technologies in data, privacy, security, and data protection, wireless communication security techniques, user authentication and security systems, as well as network security and intrusion detection.

van Steen has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Peter Andreas, Valeriu-Daniel Stanciu, Nadia Shafaeipour, Philipp Jakubeit, and Thijs van Ede. These collaborations have resulted in multiple publications appearing in various reputable venues.

Some recent notable papers include:

  • DEEPCASE: Semi-Supervised Contextual Analysis of Security Events (2022), published in the 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
  • Privacy-friendly statistical counting for pedestrian dynamics (2023), featured in Computer Communications
  • Understanding the protection of privacy when counting subway travelers through anonymization (2024), published in Computers Environment and Urban Systems
  • The Difficulty in Scaling Blockchains: A Simple Explanation (2021), available on arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Balancing Accuracy and Privacy: Using Bloom Filters to Count Travelers (2024), in SSRN Electronic Journal

Their work has been disseminated through frequent publication in venues such as the 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), Computer Communications, Computers Environment and Urban Systems, arXiv (Cornell University), and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Best Publications

  • Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms

    Andrew S. Tanenbaum;Maarten Van Steen

  • Distributed Systems

    Andrew S. Tanenbaum;Maarten Van Steen

  • CYCLON: Inexpensive Membership Management for Unstructured P2P Overlays

    Spyros Voulgaris;Daniela Gavidia;Maarten van Steen

  • Gossip-based peer sampling

    Márk Jelasity;Spyros Voulgaris;Rachid Guerraoui;Anne-Marie Kermarrec

  • TRIBLER: a social‐based peer‐to‐peer system

    JA Pouwelse;P Garbacki;J Jun Wang;Arthur Bakker

  • Wikipedia workload analysis for decentralized hosting

    Guido Urdaneta;Guillaume Pierre;Maarten van Steen

  • The peer sampling service: experimental evaluation of unstructured gossip-based implementations

    Márk Jelasity;Rachid Guerraoui;Anne-Marie Kermarrec;Maarten van Steen

  • Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms, 2nd Edition

    Andrew S. Tanenbaum;Maarten van Steen

  • A survey of DHT security techniques

    Guido Urdaneta;Guillaume Pierre;Maarten Van Steen

  • On Botnets That Use DNS for Command and Control.

    Christian J. Dietrich;Christian Rossow;Felix C. Freiling;Herbert Bos

  • Prudent Practices for Designing Malware Experiments: Status Quo and Outlook

    C. Rossow;C. J. Dietrich;C. Grier;C. Kreibich

  • Gossiping in distributed systems

    Anne-Marie Kermarrec;Maarten van Steen

  • FlowPrint: Semi-Supervised Mobile-App Fingerprinting on Encrypted Network Traffic

    Thijs Sebastiaan van Ede;Riccardo Bortolameotti;Andrea Continella;Jingjing Ren

  • Replication for web hosting systems

    Swaminathan Sivasubramanian;Michal Szymaniak;Guillaume Pierre;Maarten van Steen

  • Sub-2-Sub: Self-Organizing Content-Based Publish and Subscribe for Dynamic and Large Scale Collaborative Networks

    Spyros Voulgaris;Etienne Riviere;Anne-Marie Kermarrec;Maarten van Steen

  • Epidemic-Style management of semantic overlays for content-based searching

    Spyros Voulgaris;Maarten van Steen

  • A brief introduction to distributed systems

    Maarten Steen;Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  • Analysis of Caching and Replication Strategies for Web Applications

    S. Sivasubramanian;G. Pierre;M. van Steen;G. Alonso

  • Exploiting semantic proximity in peer-to-peer content searching

    S. Voulgaris;A.-M. Kermarrec;L. Massoulie

  • The distributed ASCI Supercomputer project

    Henri Bal;Raoul Bhoedjang;Rutger Hofman;Ceriel Jacobs

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Andrew S. Tanenbaum Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Márk Jelasity
Márk Jelasity University of Szeged
Anne-Marie Kermarrec
Anne-Marie Kermarrec École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Swaminathan Sivasubramanian
Swaminathan Sivasubramanian Amazon (United States)
Alberto Montresor
Alberto Montresor University of Trento
Frances M. T. Brazier
Frances M. T. Brazier Delft University of Technology
Henk Sips
Henk Sips Delft University of Technology
Christian Rossow
Christian Rossow Saarland University
Herbert Bos
Herbert Bos Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dick Epema
Dick Epema Delft University of Technology

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