Table of Contents

• Lectures
• Text and Reference Book(s)
• Similar Courses
• Journals
• Conferences
• Podcasts

Lectures

Caution: We are having discussion primarily on the blackboard.
Hence, the slides are only for the purpose of supporting the blackboard discussions.
In the exams, questions will come from all of the classroom discussions, not only from the slides.

Event	Date	Description	References
Lecture 1	Jan 5	Introduction and Different Types of Network	[ Slides ]
Lecture 2	Jan 8	Graph Introduction	[ Slides ]
Lectures 3-8	Jan 10-24	Network Measures	[ Slides ]
Lectures 9-12	Jan 29-Feb 7	Social Groups	[ Slides ]
Exam	Feb 10	Minor-1	[ Question Paper ]
Lectures 13-17	Feb 12-28	Network Models	[ Slides ]
Lecture 18	Mar 1	Intro to Game Theory	[ Kleinberg Sections 6.1-6.9 ]
Lecture 19	Mar 6	Modelling Network Traffic using Game Theory	[ Kleinberg Sections 8.1-8.2 ]
Lecture 20	Mar 11	Information Cascades	[ Kleinberg Sections 19.1-19.6 ]
Lectures 21-23	Mar 13-16	The Small-World Phenomenon	[ Slides ]
Lecture 24	Mar 18	Minor-1 model answer discussion
Exam	Mar 23	Minor-2	[ Question Paper ]
Lectures 25-27	Mar 20, 27, Apr 1	Epidemiological Models	[ Slides ]
Lectures 28-30	Apr 3, 5, 8	Community Detection	[ Slides ]
Lectures 31-32	Apr 12, 15	Link Prediction	[ Slides ]
Lectures 33-34	Apr 17, 19	Evolving Network and Temporal Networks	[ Paper ]
Lecture 35	Apr 22	The Connected Caveman Graph Model	[ Slides ]
Lecture 36	Apr 24	Web Search and Link Analysis	[ Slides ]

Text and Reference Book(s)

1. Newman: Mark Newman (2010), Networks: An Introduction, Oxford University Press.
2. Kleinberg: David Easley and Jon Kleinberg (2010), Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World, Cambridge University Press. Pre-publication draft. Book website.
3. Barabasi: Albert-László Barabási (2016), Network Science, Cambridge University Press. Freely available under the Creative Commons license: website.

Similar Courses

• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IT) by IIT Ropar
• Social Network Analysis by University of California Davis (UC Davis)
• Applied Social Network Analysis in Python by University of Michigan

Journals

• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
• ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
• Social Network Analysis and Mining
• Social Networks

Conferences

• Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
• NetSci
• ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)
• Complex Networks and Their Applications (CNA)
• WWW
• IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
• IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (IEEE SocialCom)
• ACM Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference (KDD)
• International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)

Podcasts

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