CS 261 - SOCIAL NETWORKS: METHODS AND TOOLS

College of Engineering

Credit(s): 3

CS 261 Social Networks: Methods and Tools - The complex connectedness of the modern society is a multifaceted phenomenon resulting from the growing density of the human population, the advent of fast global mass transportation infrastructure, the emergence of global companies and markets, and spurred by the Internet and its applications such as the Web, Facebook and Twitter. In this course, we learn about graph theory, game theory and computational tools required to model and analyze social networks, matching markets, web search, network externalities, tipping points, information cascades, epidemics, small worlds, and voting schemes. The course requires no programming background and has no university-level prerequisites.

Meets UK Core: Quantitive Foundations.