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Ankur Teredesai
TCSS 590
Tacoma Campus
Examines current graduate-level topics and issues associated with computing and software systems. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Offered: AWSp.
Class description
Topics: 1.What defines a social network? 2.Mechanism Design, Internet Economics and Incentives 3.Social Trust 4.Social Influence 5.Social Search: A knowledge network perspective 6.Social Networking Platforms: Facebook, Myspace, Open Social and others. 7.Social networks outside the Internet
ABOUT: This course covers the new and emerging world of information acquisition and dissemination in social networks. First, we study properties of small worlds networks important for social networks. We look at the new developments in internet economics and mechanism design to study how incentives act as catalysts in a social network. We study attempts to model problems such as computing trust, influence and relevance of search in social knowledge networks. Next we study social networks that don’t use the internet at all! Plant networks, bees and bacteria.
The approach of study in this course will be hands-on and experimental. Students will get an opportunity to explore new social networking platforms and api’s to develop interesting applications. Assignments will include review of assigned papers and blog based discussions on topics covered in class. Students will be expected to develop new ideas, be interested in programming and be proficient in assimilating ideas presented in research papers in a variety of areas.
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