Course Detail:

CSE6604


Information and Social Networks

3 Credit Hour Course

Prerequisite:

Information networks: different types of information networks, the World Wide Web, structure of the web; Social networks: structures and properties, social links and ties, connectivity and clustering, centrality and community; Network dynamics: various models, information cascade and contagion, small world phenomenon; Human-centric computation: social sensing, crowd sourcing, crowd intelligence; Integration of information and social networks with communication networks.