Small Worlds, Social Networks, and Web Algorithms

Jennifer Golbeck, Spring 2007

University of Maryland, College Park

Tentative Class Schedule for CMSC498N

1. Week 10: (4/3, 4/5)
Behavior in WBSNs

a. Class 1: Understanding relationships, computing relationships

b. Class 2: Computing Trust

2. Week 10: (4/10, 4/12)
Propagation in Complex Systems

a. Class 1: Epidemiology

i. Sexual Contacts

ii. Disease spreading

iii. Blogdex

b. Class 2: Network Algorithms

i. Network Flow

ii. Page Rank

3. Week 12: (4/17, 4/19)
Social Network Analysis

a. Class 1: Major ideas of social network analysis

b. Class 2: More of 1

4. Week 13: (4/24/, 4/26)
Applied Network Analysis (Using Computations)

a. Class 1: Recommender Systems using trust

b. Class 2: TBA

5. Week 14: (5/1, 5/3)

a. Project Presentations I

b. Project Presentations 2?

6. Week 15: (5/8, 5/10)

a. Class 1: Other applications of social networks

b. Class 2: Final Review