IFSC46003 — (was 4360) Social Computing
Add to Bookmarks Three hours lecture. Three credit hours. Was IFSC 4360. Hands-on. Focuses on concepts of the social and information networks, Web as graph, models (such as Power law distribution, scale-free models, preferential attachment models, etc.) that simulate behavioral characteristics of these graphs, basic graph theoretical concepts, characteristics of social media and Web 2.0 or the Social Web (such as blogs, microblogging, social friendship networks, social bookmarking, social news, social media sharing, wikis, etc.), understanding and developing API and mashups, issues and challenges in data crawling and web analytics, network data visualization, exposure to information extraction and retrieval concepts aiming at the highly dynamic and noisy nature of social media, harnessing the collective and web intelligence, and basic concepts of cloud computing. Dual listed in the Graduate Catalog as IFSC 56003 (was IFSC 5360).
Prerequisites: IFSC11003, IFSC20003