Sumários

Lab

13 novembro 2015, 15:30 Francisco Correia dos Santos

Modularity and random walks. Free exploration and discussion concerning the 2nd project of the course.


Lesson 18 - Spreading dynamics

13 novembro 2015, 14:00 Francisco Correia dos Santos

Compartment models of disease spreading. SI, SIS and SIR models in well-mixed populations. Basic reproductive number and epidemic thresholds. Stochastic effects. Epidemics in structured populations. Vanishing epidemic threshold in scale-free networks. Finite-size effects. Vaccination strategies. Model of rumor and opinion dynamics. Dynamics of peer-influence. Computational epidemiology. Network science in health governance.

 


Laboratory 08

6 novembro 2015, 15:30 Alexandre Francisco

Exercise on the resolution limit of modularity. Exercises on random walks, ranking and local clustering.


Overlapping communities

6 novembro 2015, 14:00 Alexandre Francisco

Overlapping communities. Node and link similarity. k-core and k-dense subgraphs. Local optimization. Link clustering. Clique percolation. The Affiliation-Graph Model and MLE based approaches. Comparing partitions, normalized mutual information. Benchmarks and testing community finding algorithms.


Random walks and ranking

2 novembro 2015, 14:00 Alexandre Francisco

Random walks. Simrank. Ranking. Page rank. Heat kernel. Local partitioning/clustering and optimization.