Network Theory and Dynamic Systems

Summer Term 2018

Introduction

This course will cover a variety of interesting topics on network theory and dynamic systems (e.g., markets, auctions etc.). The student should become enabled to understand the structure and the dynamics of network models and how to apply them to structures of artefacts and human behaviors in the World Wide Web.

Prerequisite

Students are expected to have background knowledge on linear algebra:

• know what a matrix is;
• know how matrix multiplication works;
• know what eigenvalues and eigenvectors are.

We recommend some online videos [1] explaining these ideas if you are not familiar with them yet.

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010/video-lectures/

Lecture

The lectures will be held by Prof. Steffen Staab.

KLIPS entry: https://klips.uni-koblenz-landau.de/v/102122
Some of the lectures can be viewed as Panopto recordings. Login using your Universität Koblenz-Landau email address and credentials.

Slack group for discussion: https://ntds18.slack.com

Exercise

Students will deepen their understanding of this course during the exercises. Assignments can be accomplished in groups of at most two persons. Students need to accomplish at least 60% of the assignments in order to attend the final exam. Plagiarism is strictly forbidden and will result in disqualification from the final exam, of both sides of the plagiarism (copying and being copied). Students are also expected to explain some of the assignments.

Click here to form and view your team before Apr 23.
SVN repositories: https://svn.uni-koblenz.de/westteaching/ntds-18/<group_name>
(A tutorial on SVN: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/svn/index.htm)

Time and Location

Exam

First exam: 

(Registration/deregistration possible until 18.07.2018)

Second exam:

Literatures

Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/networks-book.pdf

Network Science by ALBERT-LÁSZLÓ BARABÁSI
http://barabasi.com/networksciencebook/

Networks – An Introduction
M. Newman Oxford University Press, 2010

Schedule

Lecturers

Prof. Dr. Steffen Staab

• Founder

Jun Sun

• Alumnus