Computer Science, Spring 2008
CS249B “Science of Networks”
Lecture Notes
Lecture 01 :
Introduction and overview
(01/28/08)
Lecture 02 :
Some Graph Theory
(01/31/08)
Lecture 03 :Probability for Networks:
PMF, PDF, CDF
(02/04/08)
Lecture 04 :Probability for Networks:
Power laws, log-log plots
(02/07/08)
Lecture 05 :
Scale Free, Pareto, Zipf
(02/11/08) handout:
Concept Maps
Lecture 06: Small Worlds -
Milgram, Dodds
(02/21/08)
Lecture 07: Small Worlds -
Watt's alpha, beta model
(02/25/08)
Lecture 08: Small Worlds -
Erdos-Reniy, Watts-Strogatz
(02/28/08)
Lecture 09: More
Watts-Strogatz
(03/03/08)
Lecture 10:
Game Theory
(03/06/08)
Lecture 11: Grokking the
Marvel Universe
(03/10/08)
Lecture 12: Mapping the WWW -
Crawlers, BFS
(03/13/08)
Lecture 13: Mapping the WWW - Broder's
Bowtie
(03/17/08) handout: Project
Proposal
Lecture 14: Barabasi-Albert's
Scale-Free Network
model (03/20/08)
Lecture 15: More on
BA and Pennock models
(03/31/08)
Lecture 16:
Error and Attack Tolerance
of SF networks (04/03/08)
Lecture 17:
Hierarchical
Networks (04/07/08)
Lecture 18: HOT models -
Intro to Linear Programming
(04/10/08)
Lecture 19: HOT models -
Robust Yet Fragile Internet
(04/14/08)
Lecture 20: Doyle's paper structure and arguments (04/17/08)
Lecture 21: Doyle's setup and evidence (04/22/08)
Lecture 22: Computing
shortest paths
in a network (04/24/08)
Lecture 23: Finding shortest paths -
Kleinberg, Dodds-Watts
(04/28/08)
Lecture 24:
Webspam
guest lecture by Takis Metaxas (05/01/08)
Lecture 25: Class presentations,
Epilogue
(05/05/08)
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