CMPE 588 Modeling The Internet (3+0+0) 3

Bingol - 2005 Fall



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InstructorDr. Haluk Bingöl, bingol@boun.edu.tr, x7121, ETA 308
Assistant none
Web sitehttp://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/courses/cmpe588
Time/RoomFFF 678 / ETA 306
First Meeting28.09.2005/14:00
Text Book none
Grading 40% Paper Presentation
40% Project
20% Contribution to discussions & Homeworks & Attendance
Course Outline Investigation of different approaches to the understanding of the complex systems/networks.
Topics
  • Random graph
  • Scale-freeness
  • Small-world
Prerequisites Solid background on Discrete Mathematics, Graph Theory, Probability
Keywords for web search small-world, scale-free, complex systems, self-organizing systems, social networks
References

Small Worlds
Duncan J. Watts
Princeton University Press, 1999, [QA166.W38]

Six Degrees
Duncan J. Watts
Norton, 2003, [QA166.W37]

Sync
Steven Strogatz
Hyperion, 2003, [Q172.5.S96.S87]

Hidden Order
John h. Holland
Basic Books, 1995, [TJ217.H64]

Complexity
M. Mitchell Waldrop
Touchstone, 1992, [QA175.W258]

Emergence
Steven Johnson
Scribner, 2001, [QA325.J65]

Self-Organized Criticality
Hendrik Jeldtoft Jensen
Cambridge University Press, 1998, [QC173.4.C74J46]

Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata
John von Neumann
University of Illinois Press, 1966, [QA267.V55]

Cellular Automata and Complexity
Stephen Wolfram
Westview Press, 1994, [QA267.5.C45W65]

Random Graphs, 2e
Bela Bollobas
Cambridge Press, 2001, [QA166.17.B66]

Social Network Analysis
John Scott
Sage, 2000, [HM711.S384]

Dynamics of Complex Systems
Yaneer Bar-Yam
Perseus, 1997, [QH323.5.B358]