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Web Mining and Social Network Analysis 2014

News

  • Next exam session: Friday, September 12, 2014 – h 09:00 – Prof. Pedreschi's office
  • Friday, June 6, 2014 - 14:00-16:00 Sala Seminari Est: PhD Workshop

2014 Schedule

  • Monday, h 16:00 - 18:00, Aula C
  • Thursday, h 11:00 - 13:00, Aula N1

Goals

Over the past decade there has been a growing public fascination with the complex “connectedness” of modern society. This connectedness is found in many contexts: in the rapid growth of the Internet and the Web, in the ease with which global communication now takes place, and in the ability of news and information as well as epidemics and financial crises to spread around the world with surprising speed and intensity. These are phenomena that involve networks and the aggregate behavior of groups of people; they are based on the links that connect us and the ways in which each of our decisions can have subtle consequences for the outcomes of everyone else.

This short course is an introduction to the analysis of complex networks, with a special focus on social networks and the Web - its structure and function, and how it can be exploited to search for information. Drawing on ideas from computing and information science, applied mathematics, economics and sociology, the course describes the emerging field of study that is growing at the interface of all these areas, addressing fundamental questions about how the social, economic, and technological worlds are connected.

Syllabus

1) Graph theory and social networks

  • Graphs
  • Social, information, biological and technological networks
  • Strong and weak ties
  • Networks in their surrounding context

2) The World Wide Web

  • The structure of the Web
  • Link analysis and Web search
  • Web mining e sponsored search markets

3) Network dynamics

  • Information cascades
  • Power laws and rich-get-richer phenomena
  • The small-world phenomenon
  • Epidemics

Textbooks and materials

  • Slides (see Calendar).

Reading:

  • M. E. J. Newman: The structure and function of complex networks, SIAM Review, Vol. 45, p. 167-256, 2003. (download pdf)
  • A.-L. Barabasi. Linked. PLUME, Penguin Group, 2002.
  • Duncan J. Watts. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. Norton, New York, 2003.

Course on Network Science held by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi at Northeastern University, Boston, MA: link

Midterm Project

  • Translation of Barabasi's network science book.

Project

Calendar

Date Topic Learning material Homework
1. Monday, 17.02.2014 Introduction to Complex Network Analysis. slides Reading: Chapter 1, 2 of Kleinberg's book and Chapter 1, 2 of Barabasi's book.
2. Thursday, 20.02.2014 Basic network measures: degree, distance, clustering
3. Monday, 24.02.2014 Basic network measures: degree, distance, clustering slides
4. Thursday, 27.02.2014 Random graphs and real networks slides Reading: Chapter 3 of Barabasi's book
Monday, 03.03.2014 Lecture canceled
5. Thursday, 06.03.2014 Network analytics with Cytoscape Cytoscape website
6. Monday, 10.03.2014 Small world, Strength of weak ties slides Reading: Chapter 3 of Kleinberg's book, Milgram's small world experiment, Watts' email experiment, Leskovec's IM experiment, Granovetter's Strength of Weak Ties theory, Onnela et al.'s Strength of Weak Ties experiment
7. Thursday, 13.03.2014 Organization of Translation Project NetSci Book
8. Monday, 17.03.2014 Centrality measures slides
9. Monday, 24.03.2014 Scale free networks. Generative models: Small World model and Barabasi-Albert model (Preferential attachment) slides Scale Free Property slides Small World Model slides Barabasi Albert Model Read Chapters 4 and 5 of Barabasi's book. Read original papers of Watts-Strogatz model and Barabasi-Albert model
10. Thursday, 27.03.2014 Preferential attachment (continued)
11. Monday, 07.04.2014 Link prediction slides Guest lecturer: Giulio Rossetti (Dottorato di Ricerca in Informatica, Università di Pisa)
12. Thursday, 10.04.2014 Network simulations with NetLogo. Network robustness to failures and attacks. NetLogo website Slides Barabasi Class 9 Read Chapter 8 of Barabasi's book.
13. Monday, 14.04.2014 Il contributo della Social Network Analysis alla “peace research” Abstract Guest lecturer: Prof. Andrea Salvini, Dip. Scienze Sociali, Univ. Pisa
14. Monday, 28.04.2014 Diffusion, spreading, contagion, epidemics slides Leskovec, slides Leskovec Read Chapter 16 and 17 of Kleinberg's book.
15. Monday, 05.05.2014 Diffusion, spreading, contagion, epidemics (continued)
16. Thursday, 08.05.2014 Diffusion, spreading, contagion, epidemics (continued) slides Leskovec slides Barabasi Read Chapter 19 and 21 of Kleinberg's book.
17. Monday, 12.05.2014 Diffusion, spreading, contagion, epidemics (continued)
18. Thursday, 17.05.2014 Network effects: Schelling's segregation model
19. Monday, 19.05.2014 Project assignment and organisation
20. Friday, 06.06.2014 PhD workshop Tiziano De Matteis: Models for evolving graphs. Andrea De Salve: Spreading in Distributed Online Social Networks. Francesco Piccinno: Large Graph Processing Hours: 14:00-16:00 Room: Sala Seminari Est - Dip. Informatica

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